To be Gay Is to be Low Status: Sexual Orientation, Not Gender Inversion, Predicts Perceived Competences of Gay and Straight Men and Women

People assume LGB people prefer the same things as their opposite-sex counterparts. Here we ask about abilities. We asked people to indicate the mathematical, verbal, and leadership abilities of gay and straight men and women. Against gender-inversion theory, both gay men and lesbian women were presumed to be the worst.