Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unisoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!maf From: maf@unisoft.UUCP (Mary Ann K. Finnerty) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Statistics on San Francisco homosexuals Message-ID: <367@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 12:25:25 EST Article-I.D.: unisoft.367 Posted: Tue Dec 11 12:25:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:30:29 EST References: <528@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: UniSoft Corp., Berkeley Lines: 39 > In an Associated Press story in the Nov 23rd New York Times, > the results of a survey of San Francisco homosexuals is presented, > along with some debate about the survey. Some excerpts: > > Forty percent of the single men in San Francisco are homosexual, > and most of them are well-educated and earning more than $20,000 > a year, according to a professional survey. > > The survey by the Research and Decisions Corporation, > commissioned by the city-financed SF AIDS Foundation, > was designed to produce the first reliable statistics on > the city's homosexuals. > It is important to note a few important things about that survey: 1) that the survey was NOT a random sample, 2) the 500 were TELEPHONE interviews and more than 10% of the salaries reported have already been declared as inflated and the investigation has just begun...think about it - if you weren't making much money and someone asked you how much you were making, in a telephone interview, wouldn't you be inclined to inflate it a little bit??? Another factor is that homophobia comes in many forms, and even homosexuals can have some residual homophobia from growing up in a world determined to assume that everyone is heterosexual...Thinking that gay men are all highly educated and affluent is just a softer homophobia - like the antisemitism in prewar Germany grown from the view of Jews as being so wealthy and educated such homophobia could be used against us... just a thought from a lesbian here in sf... maf