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Even if you have insurance, being queer can be a barrier to getting the healthcare you need.

Queer Money Matters is Nancy's series about the straight economy and how queer people navigate it.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

Marriage equality meant more dollars in the bank for lots of queer people. But what if getting married goes against your identity or is simply not possible?

Queer Money Matters is Nancy's series about the straight economy and how queer people navigate it.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

From discrimination in the hiring process to a wage gap to a patchwork of legal protections, there are road blocks at every stage of our career.

Queer Money Matters is Nancy's series about the straight economy and how queer people navigate it.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

When you’re queer and you want to add a kid to your family, things get complicated—and expensive—really quickly.

Queer Money Matters is Nancy's series about the straight economy and how queer people navigate it.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

The economy is built for cisgender, heterosexual people. We're exploring the financial hurdles queer people face and how we navigate them. It's Nancy's "Queer Money Matters."

If you want to see the results of "Nancy’s 2019 Money Survey of a Representative Sample of the Queer and Non-Queer US Population," head over to Queer Money Matters.

— Lee Badgett is an economist, professor, and LGBT policy expert. She teaches at UMass Amherst.

Special thanks this week to Adam Auriemma, Editor-in-Chief of Money Magazine, Morning Consult, and the WNYC data team.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Tigue. Theme by Alexander Overington.

When it comes to money, the costs of being queer add up quickly. Whether it’s finding a job, getting married, having kids, accessing healthcare or retiring there are ways in which queer folks are disadvantaged, financially speaking. Which might help explain why queer people drop out of school at higher rates, are more likely to be homeless, and carry more debt than our straight peers.

But like so many obstacles that queer people face, we’ve found creative solutions. From crowdsourcing campaigns to building chosen families that support each other, we’ve found ways to thrive.

The financial challenges, and the ways to overcome them are not something we’ve heard a lot of people talk about though, and when we went to research how queer people feel about their finances, there wasn’t a lot of data. So, we commissioned our own survey, in partnership with the national polling firm Morning Consult. We wanted to know things like how many LGBTQ people have emergency funds and when queer people think they’ll be able to retire. You can find the full results at the bottom of this page, but these are a few of the things that we found noteworthy:

52% of people who identify as queer say they have anxiety around finances.

25% of people who identify as queer say that their sexuality or their gender identity has had an impact on their finances.

35% of queer folks say they could rely on family and friends for financial support before coming out, but only 20% say they could rely on family or friends for support after coming out.

57% of queer people say they don’t have kids compared to 36% of straight people.

In the first episode of our six-part series, Team Nancy investigates what’s giving you—our listeners—anxiety about money.

Now it’s your turn to tell us what your relationship with money is like.

Listen to the rest of the Queer Money Matters series every day starting March 4, 2019.

(Also known as Nancy’s 2019 Money Survey of a Representative Sample of the Queer and Non-Queer US Population)

On behalf of Team Nancy, the national polling firm Morning Consult conducted a survey about money as it relates to sexual orientation and gender identity. Morning Consult surveyed 6603 adults in the US, including 778 LGBTQ people between January 24-30, 2019.The interviews were conducted online and the data was weighted in accordance with current U.S. population by gender, age, education, ethnicity, and region to approximate a representative sample of adults in the United States. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point among the entire population and plus or minus 4 percentage points among the LGBTQ population.

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Strange or obtuse; a stinging homophobic slur; a radical political rejection of normativity; a broad term encompassing every and any variation on sexual orientation and gender identity: the word 'queer' has a multifarious past and complicated present. This is just a fraction of it.

— Helen Zaltzman hosts the podcasts, The Allusionist and Answer Me This! Additional show notes can be found on The Allusionist's website.

— Eric Marcus hosts the podcast, Making Gay History.

— Amy Sueyoshi is a historian and author.

— Cameo appearances from Katie Mingle from 99% Invisible, Katie Herzog from The Stranger, and Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye.

Music in this episode by Martin Austwick. Theme by Alexander Overington.

Eight years ago, Ben found a pair of cutoff jean shorts mounted in a shadowbox. Now, he's on a search for the truth.

— Ben Riskin quit his law firm four years ago and embarked on a career in podcasting. Ben recently joined Endeavor Audio to lead their business development and content acquisition efforts. When he's not working, he's listening to everything and talking to everyone. 

Special thanks this week to Tracey Baim of the Windy City Times, the team at Curious City, Ben Rose and Tracey Panek at Levi’s, St. Sukie de la Croix (author of Chicago Whispers: a History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall), Gnat Carpenter, the team at Third Coast International Audio Festival, and everyone who shared pictures of the shorts on social media.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, Little Glass Men ("Procreation"), Broke for Free ("Calm the Fuck Down"), and Nctrnm ("Tethered"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

Phillip Picardi joins Nancy to talk about his first job at McDonald's, his recent job as Anna Wintour's protégé, and his new job as editor-in-chief of Out Magazine.

— Phillip Picardi is the editor-in-chief at Out Magazine. He previously served as chief content officer at Teen Vogue and them.

— Phillip's response to the Women's Wear Daily article can be found on Twitter.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, Alex Overington, BoxCat Game  ("Mt Fox Shop"), and Drake Stafford ("Matte Black"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

An elite unit of trolls is engaged in an existential battle against hate speech on the internet. This is their story.

This episode originally aired on Endless Thread, a co-production of WBUR and Reddit. It's a show about Reddit (also known as the front page of the internet), hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, produced by Josh Swartz, and mixed by Paul Vaitkus.

Nancy theme by Alexander Overington.