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Contents:

• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?
• MAJOR NEW ANALYSIS HAS REVEALED HOW MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE THERE ARE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• AN LGBTQ+ GUI TO BRIGHTON'S KEMPTOWN: PUBS, BARS AND HOTELSBRIGHTON IS OFTEN REGARD AS THE 'GAY PAL' AND THERE'S NO AREA MORE LGBTQ+ IENDLY THAN KEMPTOWNSSEXLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYYASM SYEDMULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST18:45, 1 AUG 2021UPDATED18:46, 1 AUG 2021BOOKMARKST JAM'S STREET IS THE HEART OF KEMPTOWN - BRIGHTON'S 'LGBTQ+ VILLAGE' (IMAGE: DOMIC ALV (CC BY 2.0) FLICKR)SIGN UP TO OUR UNTOLD STORI NEWSLETTER FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM SSEX AND BRIGHTON'S DIVERSE MUNIMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO OUR UNTOLD STORI NEWSLETTER FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM SSEX AND BRIGHTON'S DIVERSE MUNIINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE BRIGHTON ENGLAND?
• IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
• GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

3 ln people England and Wal intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cens data has revealed for the first people aged 16 and over, more than 1.

WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?

5% - 748, 000 - intify as gay or lbian, and 624, 000 (1. 6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people.

7%) of people intifyg as "LGB+", - lbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual of the other lol thori the top 10 were Wal, Cardiff was the lol thory wh the biggt LGB+ populatn (5. Smaller surveys have dited that ls than 2% of the populatn of England and Wal currently intify as lbian or gay.

MAJOR NEW ANALYSIS HAS REVEALED HOW MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE THERE ARE

0%) chose not to disclose their genr who did answer were able to select om optns cludg heterosexual, gay, lbian and bisexual. However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight. The UK’s gay populatn has been mapped by the Office for Natnal Statistics (ONS) for the first time, revealg ncentratns of lbian, gay and bisexual people om central London to ral ONS – the ernment’s statistics body – has mapped how many people told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, broken down by unty and by lol thory, for an experimental dataset verg 2013 to of the fdgs are unsurprisg: six of the 10 lol thori wh the hight relative lbian, gay and bisexual populatns are ner London, cludg Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark, while Brighton and Manchter also make the the unty-by-unty data puts ral Devon slightly ahead of East Ssex (excludg the unary thory of Brighton and Hove, which is unted separately om the rt of the unty).

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

3% of Devon’s populatn told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, slightly ahead of the 1. There was a gay men’s group, so there had always been ltle groups, but there wasn’t a Pri event, so part of our missn was to crease visibily, ” he add: “It might be that people are startg to feel like they n live ral lotns and not jt London, Brighton and Manchter, and maybe part of is about feelg more nfint to report . ”Devon is largely welg for gay people, he said, but this is not universal.

”In other parts of the untry, very few people are tellg rearchers they are gay, lbian or bisexual.

4% of people intify as gay, lbian or bisexual, wh a lower-end range as low as one 1, 000 people scribg themselv to rearchers as such.

AN LGBTQ+ GUI TO BRIGHTON'S KEMPTOWN: PUBS, BARS AND HOTELSBRIGHTON IS OFTEN REGARD AS THE 'GAY PAL' AND THERE'S NO AREA MORE LGBTQ+ IENDLY THAN KEMPTOWNSSEXLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSWHAT'S ONBYYASM SYEDMULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST18:45, 1 AUG 2021UPDATED18:46, 1 AUG 2021BOOKMARKST JAM'S STREET IS THE HEART OF KEMPTOWN - BRIGHTON'S 'LGBTQ+ VILLAGE' (IMAGE: DOMIC ALV (CC BY 2.0) FLICKR)SIGN UP TO OUR UNTOLD STORI NEWSLETTER FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM SSEX AND BRIGHTON'S DIVERSE MUNIMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO OUR UNTOLD STORI NEWSLETTER FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM SSEX AND BRIGHTON'S DIVERSE MUNIINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

For other unti, such as Buckghamshire and Suffolk, there was too ltle data available to produce robt timat, the ONS ONS created the dataset by bg data on 560, 000 dividuals om three years of the Annual Populatn Survey, which gathers data through nfintial phone or -person allowed the anisatn to break down the rults to a more lol level than prev reports, which foced on Guasp, head of rearch at LGBT mpaign group Stonewall, said: “It’s enuragg to see rearch efforts to ga a better unrstandg of the lbian, gay, bi and trans populatn and intify the diverse needs of different LGBT muni Bra. ”By a slenr marg, Northern Ireland was the untry of the UK found to have the hight proportn of gay men – an timated 1. “Lots of out people would have difficulty intifyg themselv as gay to someone om the ernment who’s knockg on the door … ’s always gog to be a particular challenge for some people to answer that qutn hontly.

”But although the laws Stormont lag some way behd the rt of the UK – was the last untry to crimalise gay sex, and gay marriage remas illegal – attus Northern Ireland have progrsed rapidly, Boyd said.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE BRIGHTON ENGLAND?

”The discrepancy between gay men and lbians the data do not reflect his experienc. Brighton and Hove, for s England’s unofficial gay pal, n now wear the official crown.

IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?

One 10 people aged over 16 the cy intified themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or “other sexual orientatn” the 2021 cens. It was exactly le wh the s-old timat based on the works of the 1940s US profsor Aled Ksey who ntend homosexualy was far more wispread than officialdom ntrast, the district of Rochford Essex was shown as the straightt place England.

GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020

6% of the populatn there said they were LGB+, suggtg that those livg the largely ral, somewhat nservative area near Southend-on-Sea are six tim ls likely to be gay than those Brighton and Hove.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Unlike Rochford, Brighton has a long history of pneerg gay rights, om s bars and clubs to s annual Pri ftival.

Last year the cy said farewell to the self-proclaimed “olst gay the village”, Gee Montague, who died aged 98 after s of mpaigng.