Hey everybody, a Freakonomics radio listener named Danny Rosa recently got in touch with

us.

He's 22 recently graduated from the University of Chicago.

He works as a youth advocate at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Danny himself is gay and he has a question for us.

Hey Freakonomics, I'm Danny Rosa and I'm wondering why gay men are so affluent and successful.

If you walk down neighborhoods like West Hollywood and Los Angeles, the Castro and Severin

Cisco and Boyce Town in Chicago, they're all very well kept, expensive and highly sought

after.

So I'm thinking, what is it about gay men and the gay culture that makes them so wealthy?

What is it about gay men that makes them so wealthy?

It is true that the gay neighborhoods that Danny mentions in LA and San Francisco and

Chicago as well as similar areas in New York and Washington, elsewhere are very nice neighborhoods.

And if you watch even a little bit of television these days, you'll get the same idea.

At my wedding, we gave guest Cheez-It and a mini bottle of water.

Keith and William gave us two tickets to Italy and $40,000.

Three of them is antique, fabulous cherry wood, low piece, we're going to put a flat screen

of this.

Louis Vuitton, Victor and Roll, lots of Ralph Lauren.

So yes, it's pretty easy to get the impression that being gay is a ticket to affluence.

But today, on Frekenomics Radio, we ask this.

How real is that rich gay stereotype?

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