The Castro: The Rise of a Gay Communy - FoundSF

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS
• MOVG TO LGBT SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

-- The San Francis metropolan area has the hight percentage of the adult populatn who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) of any of the top 50 U. The rults are based on rpons to the qutn, "Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

The San Francis metropolan area has a higher percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr than any other cy the untry, a new survey found. The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. As a rult, there has long been a shroud of uncertaty around the geography of gay and lbian Amerins.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

A new analysis of Gallup survey data offers the most tailed timat yet about where people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr Gallup analysis fds the largt ncentratns the Wt — and not jt the expected plac like San Francis and Portland, Ore. It seems to be a kd of regnal pal of gay life, attractg people om other parts of Utah and the Mormon the other hand, some of the East Coast plac wh famo gay neighborhoods, cludg New York, Miami and Washgton, have a smaller percentage of their populatn who intify as gay — roughly average for a big metropolan area. Gay Ameri, rather than beg nfed to a few plac, spreads across every major regn of the untry.

And even the parts of the untry outsi the 50 biggt metropolan areas have a gay populatn (about 3 percent) not so different om some big metropolan areas. The share of San Francis’s populatn that’s gay is only two and a half tim larger than the share outsi major metro areas. “For a generatn, they all remember the moment they walked through their first gay bar, ” said Pl Boneberg, executive director of the G.

” Wilson/The New York TimSan FrancisHistorians often trace San Francis’s role as a gay refuge part to World War II, when the Navy discharged gay sailors, bee of their sexualy, at Treasure Island San Francis Bay. Other gay people, search of a safe place, Francis was promently featured when Life magaze published a 1964 article tled “Homosexualy Ameri.

SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS

The cy had some of the untry’s first openly gay policians, cludg Harvey Milk, the San Francis supervisor who was assassated 1978.

He is creded wh turng the Castro district of the 1970s to perhaps the untry’s most visible gay neighborhood, a muny and tourist statn that still hums unr a rabow San Francis has ls of a pull, as other parts of the untry have bee ls hostile, the cy is still a statn, cludg for transgenr people. People among the natn’s largt metropolan Nash for The New York Tim Portland, exemplifi the polil divisn on gay civil rights. The state and lol ernments have proposed or passed a strikg number of anti-gay measur, yet the share of L.

People the ral, nservative part of the state and neighborg stat have flocked to Portland, as have people priced out of the Wt Coast’s other big, gay-iendly ci. Many of them have fought for some of the untry’s fartht-reachg gay rights polici, cludg the recent expansn of Mediid verage for treatment like hormone therapy and unselg for transgenr people. Still, Jeana Frazzi, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, says Portland has work to do before n feel like a haven for many transgenr people and gay people of factor behd the data — Portland and elsewhere — may be people’s willgns to tell a pollster that they’re gay, lbian or bisexual.

MOVG TO LGBT SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

In addn to havg a larger gay populatn, plac like Portland may also have a larger share of their gay populatn who publicly intify as such. Kathere Taylor for The New York TimBoston and AtIt’s no accint that some of the untry’s most ted metro areas have some of the largt gay populatns. Gay and lbian Amerins are not substantially more ted than the rt of the populatn, acrdg to Gary Gat, a -thor of “The Gay and Lbian Atlas, ” who has studied the Gallup data.

Metro areas wh a greater share of gay and lbian rints tend to lean Democratic. 7 another aspect of the Mormon culture — the importance of muny and fay — go a long way toward explag the pattern, people Salt Lake Cy many gay people who were raised Mormon (or L. As recently as 1988, Southern Baptists passed an official rolutn llg homosexualy “praved.

“If wasn’t an accint of birth that you were born San Francis and happened to be queer, I don’t thk there’s the immediate pull that you mt move there anymore, ” said Douglas Ray, who teach queer lerature Birmgham and eded “The Queer South, ” an other large metro areas wh relatively small gay populatns clu Hoton, Memphis, Nashville and Raleigh, N. )Before this Gallup analysis, the most tailed portra of gay mography was the Cens Bure timat of same-sex upl, cludg an analysis by the Williams Instute at U. The timat are based on the survey qutn, “Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Manhattan most likely has a larger percentage of gay and lbian rints than the New York regn as a the data is affected by the feral ernment’s fn of metropolan areas. 6A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn ST, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Where Gay Amerins Choose to Live and Why. When lookg for some of the bt gay neighborhoods San Francis, some stand out om the rt.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Data that allow for analys of the geographic distributn of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn across geographic areas the Uned Stat have only very recently bee available. In 2012, Gallup add a qutn to s Daily Trackg survey, which terviews approximately 1, 000 adults the US every night and asks rponnts, “Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr?

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

As the first cy the USA to legalise gay marriage and elect an openly gay official (Harvey Milk), San Francis is a te gay in. After s of standg at the foreont of gay culture, ntu to be globally regnised as one of the most progrsive and LGBTQ+ iendly ci the world.

As the cy beme heavily populated wh young men lookg to strike gold out Wt, homosexualy beme more mon. In 1908, The Dash beme the first openly gay bar San Francis wh cross-drsg waers. Durg World War 1, the US Navy began dischargg known homosexual and black soldiers port ci, known as the “blue discharge” practice.

As alhol was illegal until 1933, bars were already nng a risk, and was no more illegal to allow gay and lbian patrons to enter. Mona’s, the first lbian bar San Francis, opened on Unn Street 1934, while nightclubs wh drag shows attracted both gay and straight dienc. The US ary’s blue discharge practice ntued to World War II, wh many gay men settlg San Francis at the end of the war.

From 1942 to 1943, ary patrols known as the San Francis Moral Drive targeted and raid the gay bars of San Francis, claimg to be protectg servicemen om homosexuals. In 1943, the police raid the gay bar Rickshaw Chatown, arrtg dozens of patrons and settg off a small rt.

However, by the end of the 1940s, the gay bar scene was growg and queer bars beme not only a safe space for gay and lbian people, but also a statn for visors to the cy, who watched performanc and mgled wh the lols. Many beat poets, cludg those who were openly gay such as Allen Gsberg, me to San Francis due to the more permissive environment and aligned themselv wh LGBTQ+ groups. This time also saw the tablishment of many gay social and polil groups San Francis.