Gary Gates
{{short description|American demographer}}
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Gary J. Gates is a retired American demographer. He served as the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, of which he was also the research director. He is an expert on the demography of LGBT populations in the United States.{{cite web | url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/william-s-institute-s-gary-gates-blachford-cooper-distinguished-scholar-and-research-director | title=Williams Institute's Gary Gates, Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director | work=UCLA Newsroom | date=23 April 2015 | accessdate=16 July 2016}} Prior to becoming a demographer, he worked as a software engineer and seminarian.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demographic-research-on-lesbians-and-gays-emerges-from-shadows/2013/03/01/2bdb61ba-7f8d-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html | title=Demographic research on lesbians and gays emerges from shadows | newspaper=Washington Post | date=1 March 2013 | accessdate=16 July 2016 | author=Morello, Carol}}
Education
Gates received his B.S. from the Johnstown branch of the University of Pittsburgh, his M.Div. from St. Vincent College, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.{{cite web | url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/gary-j-gates/ | title=Gary J. Gates | work=UCLA School of Law | accessdate=16 July 2016}}
Work
Gates is the co-author of the 2004 book The Gay and Lesbian Atlas.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/business/same-sex-marriage-bans-are-bad-for-business-common-sense.html?_r=0 | title=Gay Marriage Bans May Come at a Price | work=New York Times | date=12 May 2012 | accessdate=16 July 2016 | author=Stewart, James B.}} In 2013, he wrote an amicus brief for the Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor in which he outlined a number of statistics about same-sex couples in the United States. According to the Washington Post, one of these statistics was that "about one in five gay and lesbian couples are raising children under age 18".
Personal life
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