Urban Migration of Sexual Minorities in the United States: Myth or Reality?

Scheitle, Christopher P.; Guthrie, Sara K.

doi:10.1007/s12119-018-9544-0

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“…Regarding the latter, NIBRS data are not nationally representative and are overrepresented by suburban and rural areas (Kaplan, 2021; Lantz, 2022). Sexual minority individuals are slightly more likely to reside in urban areas than rural (Scheitle & Guthrie, 2019), thereby artificially lowering the number of reported same-sex IPV incidents.…”

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confidence: 99%

Elucidating Intimate Partner Violence Rate Disparities Between Same- and Opposite-Sex Couples: A Demographic Approach

Hubbell

2023

J Interpers Violence

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Studies on intimate partner violence (IPV) rates typically find higher rates for same-sex couples than opposite-sex couples. Regardless of sexual orientation, the risk for IPV perpetration is concentrated among young adults. Given that the HIV/AIDS epidemic significantly lowered the life expectancy of sexual minority men and that recent social movements have encouraged more youths to “come out,” population age differences may contribute to the observed differences in IPV rates between same- and opposite-sex couples. The present study applies direct age standardization and decomposition techniques to data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System and the American Community Survey to examine this possibility across 2,584 same-sex male, 4,029 same-sex female, and 284,614 opposite-sex physical IPV incidents. The results of the direct standardization procedures indicate physical IPV rates for same-sex male and same-sex female households would be 11.8% and 27.3% lower, respectively, if they had the same population age structure as opposite-sex households. The results of the decompositions indicate that differences in population age structure contribute 48% and 44% of the elevation in IPV rates in same-sex male and same-sex female households, respectively, compared to opposite-sex households. These findings demonstrate the promise of demographic methods to explain differences in offending rates between groups. These results suggest the need for prevention and intervention strategies aimed at youths. Future studies should be conducted with data on sexual orientation and gender identity to better elucidate the contribution of population age structure among various sexual and gender minority groups. Research comparing trends among sexual minority populations to the heterosexual population in particular should account for age where possible.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elucidating Intimate Partner Violence Rate Disparities Between Same- and Opposite-Sex Couples: A Demographic Approach

Hubbell

2023

J Interpers Violence

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“…The analysis is also based on the assumption that an unequal distribution between same‐sex and different‐sex married individuals can be explained by sexuality. However, we acknowledge the potential of other variables that affect these patterns, such as the possibility of individuals being more prone to explore their sexuality in some places rather than others, as implied by Scheitle and Guthrie (2019).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Same‐sex marriage and neighbourhood landscape overlap—A revised understanding of the spatial distribution of gay men and lesbians

Wimark

Lena

2021

Population Space and Place

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Obstacles to family formation have been removed in many countries outside of the Anglophone world for quite some time. Conventional knowledge suggests that this phenomenon should make gay men and lesbians more similar to the general population. In this study, however, we show that differences linger. By classifying Swedish neighbourhoods into multiscalar neighbourhood landscapes, we show that same‐sex married individuals differ from both married individuals and the general population. Same‐sex married individuals are concentrated in cores in metropolitan cities characterised by the ownership tenure form and apartment buildings. In general, same‐sex individuals avoid remote rural areas, but same‐sex females are quite present in rural towns. Same‐sex males are concentrated to areas that border deprived areas but not to deprived areas. These results suggest that there is a need to move beyond legal agendas and consider what drives the residential mobility of the gay and lesbian population.

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“…A more recent study by Scheitle and Guthrie (2019) acknowledges that few studies have tackled internal migration systematically and using data that allows for measures of childhood and current residency. In this context, their article utilizes the General Social Survey from 2008 until 2016 to calculate in the residential context where gay men, lesbians, bisexual and heterosexual people lived when they were 16 years of age and where they currently live.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the last two decades, the shift in the dynamics of internal migration to a predominately urban-urban flow has also changed the way scholars perceive sexuality in migration studies (SCHEITLE;GUTHRIE, 2019). Before that, sexuality was limited to sexual and reproductive rights within the family realm.…”

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confidence: 99%

Setting a research agenda on sexuality and migration in demographic studies: what emerges from the literature review

Lena

2022

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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This article systematically reviews articles published from January 2000 to June 2021, that focus on internal migration and sexuality using quantitative methods and data related to demographic research. Therefore, this article aims to map what has been studied and learned so far in demographic research regarding internal migration of sexual minorities. A second objective is to use the development of studies on sexuality and migration in Brazil as a case study for migration and sexuality in the Global South; from this retrospection I intend to identify where these studies have become stifled in the last decades as well as the gaps to fill in order to establish a research agenda.

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Urban Migration of Sexual Minorities in the United States: Myth or Reality?

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Elucidating Intimate Partner Violence Rate Disparities Between Same- and Opposite-Sex Couples: A Demographic Approach

Elucidating Intimate Partner Violence Rate Disparities Between Same- and Opposite-Sex Couples: A Demographic Approach

Same‐sex marriage and neighbourhood landscape overlap—A revised understanding of the spatial distribution of gay men and lesbians

Setting a research agenda on sexuality and migration in demographic studies: what emerges from the literature review

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