Residential segregation is a major area of research in demography. Most prior investigations have focused on the segregation of racial/ethnic minorities from the majority white group in cities and metropolitan areas of the United States and several other countries. Few analyses have dealt with the spatial segregation of sexual minorities from the majority. In this paper, we analyze the residential segregation of gay male and lesbian households from heterosexual married and heterosexual cohabiting households. We use two dissimilarity measures of residential segregation and draw on data from the American Community Surveys for 2008 through 2012 to compute segregation scores for the 100 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with the largest gay male and lesbian populations around the year 2010. We show that there is a sizable amount of homosexual-heterosexual residential segregation and that it appears to be a different phenomenon from racial and ethnic residential segregation. We also show that gay male households are more segregated from different-sex partnered households than are lesbian households, and that levels of segregation vary positively across the MSAs with the size of the gay male and lesbian populations.

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大约 2010 年美国大都会同性家庭与异性家庭的居住隔离

居住隔离是人口学的一个主要研究领域。大多数先前的调查都集中在美国和其他几个国家的城市和大都市区将种族/族裔少数群体与多数白人群体隔离开来。很少有分析涉及性少数与多数的空间隔离。在本文中，我们分析了男同性恋和女同性恋家庭与异性已婚和异性同居家庭的居住隔离。我们使用住宅隔离的两种不同度量，并利用 2008 年至 2012 年美国社区调查的数据来计算 2010 年左右男同性恋和女同性恋人口最多的 100 个大都市统计区 (MSA) 的隔离分数。我们表明存在相当数量的同性恋-异性恋住宅隔离，这似乎是与种族和族裔住宅隔离不同的现象。我们还表明，男同性恋家庭与异性伴侣家庭的隔离程度高于女同性恋家庭，并且随着男同性恋和女同性恋人口规模的不同，MSA 的隔离程度呈正相关。