Men’s academic underperformance has been back in the news.

In new research, I show that there is one group of American men who have, for generations, achieved remarkable levels of academic success: gay men.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Using five new population-representative data sources, I find—again and again—that gay men achieve stunning academic success.

I show, for example, that if America’s gay men formed their own country, that country would be the world’s most highly educated by far.