How inequality differs by gender and sexual orientationĪs the graph below shows, lesbians have the most unequal distribution of partnerships, followed by gay men, then straight men, with straight women having the most equal distribution. The technical details of what we did are explained at the end of this post. Here, using methods similar to those in our previous post, we use Gini indices to compare gay men, straight men, lesbians, and straight women in how unequally their sexual partnerships are distributed. In our last post, focused on heterosexuals, we showed that women partners are more unequally distributed among men than male partners are among women, and that partners are more unequally distributed among singles than those who are in a marital or cohabiting union. Do some gay men have lots of partners while others have very few? Is the inequality in partnerships among gay men greater than how unequally women partners are distributed among heterosexual men? What about straight women versus lesbians?