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• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• GAY UNED KGDOM
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

Close behd London our Rabow Ci Inx is Brighton, a cy that is world renowned for s vibrant gay village and fantastic nightlife offerg. 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).

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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.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

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.

”The discrepancy between gay men and lbians the data do not reflect his experienc. Over 2, 500 participants om each cy were asked to rank out of five, three liftyle factors: the strength of their cy’s gay datg scene, the qualy of s LBGT nightlife, and the openns of their fellow cizens.

The pani methodology towards the LGBT Nightlife tegory is: Wh their vibrant atmosphere and sense of clivy, gay-iendly parti and venu are often the beatg heart of a cy’s night scene. Havg a particular strong LGBT night scene is what helps some ci to tablish themselv as leadg gay statns. In the face of a global ronavis panmic, many gay pri celebratns have moved om jubilant ftivals on the streets to … puter screens.

But the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny still has plenty of reasons to fly those rabow flags last week, the U. Supreme Court issued a monumental lg that gay and transgenr people are protected om workplace discrimatn unr the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Until [the lg], you uld be fired for beg LGBT, ” says Jeff Berger, founr and print of the Natnal Associatn of Gay & Lbian Real Estate Profsnals.

Ls than half of LGBTQ adults, 49%, were homeowners, pared wh almost two-thirds, 65%, of LGBTQ folks who do buy hom prrize livg fun, safe muni wh lots of other gay rints where they’re ls likely to be harassed.

“They n have a level of fort [ the plac] bee other people have charted the waters, ” says fd the gayt towns Ameri, the ® team of data analysts looked at five-year U. The list was limed to towns wh at least 1, 700 hoeholds wh a marg of error unr many big ci like San Francis and New York have long been renowned for their thrivg gay culture, they’re jt so big that the number of same-sex upl ma up a smaller percentage of their total populatns.