Conversely, he concluded that lesbians perform more poorly in school overall and that Black gay women have a much lower college graduation rate than their white counterparts. Joel Mittleman, a University of Notre Dame sociologist and the paper’s sole author, found that on an array of academic measures, gay males outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups. University of Notre Dame sociologist Joel Mittleman. 20, comes to starkly opposing conclusions about how growing up gay appears to affect the academic performance of males versus females. But the paper, which was published in the American Sociological Review on Feb.
