TABLE 2.

Demographics and General Healthcare by Sexual Orientation

	Sexual Orientation1
	Gay (N = 263)	Lesbian (N = 185)	Bisexual (N = 38)	Straight (N = 110)
Male2	100.0	0.0	18.4	32.7
Age Group
18 – 29 years	4.9	12.4	29.0	13.6
30 – 42 years	14.1	22.2	26.3	17.3
43 – 55 years	42.2	31.4	29.0	18.2
56 – 64 years	21.7	21.6	15.8	25.5
65 or more years	17.1	12.4	0.0	25.5
Race
White	94.7	91.9	75.0	93.5
Black or African American	1.9	4.4	8.3	3.7
Other	3.4	3.8	16.7	2.8
Hispanic ethnicity	4.6	5.9	10.5	5.4
Married/Partnered	62.0	78.4	60.5	68.2
Education
HS diploma/GED or less	7.3	6.5	5.4	7.3
Some College	16.8	15.7	27.0	24.6
Graduated College	38.6	35.1	37.8	32.7
Postgraduate Degree	37.4	42.7	29.7	35.5
Employment Status
Full-time	53.9	62.0	55.3	46.4
Part-time	9.2	7.1	13.2	10.0
Retired	23.5	13.0	2.6	26.4
Other	13.5	17.9	29.0	17.3
Median Household Income Category3	$70–79K	$60–69K	$40–49K	$50–59K
General Health and Healthcare
Insured	90.5	84.2	70.3	82.6
Have a healthcare surrogate	63.2	63.2	48.7	53.7
Surrogate is spouse or partner	74.6	82.8	66.7	70.7
Have received cancer diagnosis	17.7	14.7	10.5	14.6
Have received serious illness diagnosis	42.0	22.3	26.3	17.4

¹Gay sexual orientation was restricted to males; lesbian sexual orientation was restricted to females; bisexual and straight sexual orientations were restricted to males and females.

²All values presented in table are percentages (%), except for household income.

³9.7% of participants marked ‘Prefer not to answer.’ N’s for the four Sexual Orientation groups were 21, 14, 4, & 19. For all other items providing this response option, less than 1.2% marked this option for a variable. Furthermore, no one participant marked this response to more than 2 items. ‘Prefer not to answer’ was treated as missing data for all group comparisons.