Researchers say that despite anti-discrimination laws in many countries, gay and bisexual men continue to earn less than their heterosexual counterparts. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) analysed 24 studies of countries in Europe, North America and Australia published between 2012 and 2020.
They found that gay men earned on average of 6.8% less than heterosexual men across all the countries covered in the study. Bisexual men, in particular, earned 10.3% less than heterosexual men on average.
In the UK, gay and bisexual men together earned 4.7% less than heterosexual men, and in the USA they earned 10.9% less. And while bisexual women earned 5.1% less than heterosexual women, lesbian women earned 7.1% more than heterosexual