So that’s where you’re getting all that disposable income from!
That’s probably not true, or at least it’s oversimplified.
I read some about the incomes of queer people while writing a paper for a planning class. In the professional world, it may well be true that gay couples not only have more disposable income than straight ones, they may earn more money to start out with, but much of that, if not all, can be attributed to the general greater earning power of men. Lesbian couples, conversely, do tend to be poorer than straight couples.
However, not only does the basic impression of the wealthy gay man only examine dual-income, childless households, it ignores segments of the queer population. There is a disproportionate number of pretty economically (and socially) marginalized queers, especially in cities, who drag down the averages quite a bit. It’s simplistic to say that “gay men have more disposable income” because this is really only true of a certain segment of the gay population. I’m not certain whether aggreggate numbers for gay men, lesbians, or queers as a whole even exist, but even if they do, and even if (and that’s a big ‘if’) they confirm the idea of the well-off gay man, they smooth out the fact that there’s a much greater income gap in the gay population than in the population as a whole, and a lot of queers don’t have any power in society at all, much less to control the fashion industries.
Then again, I’m just one queer boy who may have taste but is far too lazy to apply it . . .