Amerins Still Greatly Overtimate U.S. Gay Populatn

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• NEW YORK STILL HAS MORE GAY RINTS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE U.S.
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• HOW MANY GAYS HAS NEW YORK CY?
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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

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.

NEW YORK STILL HAS MORE GAY RINTS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE U.S.

ADVERTISEMENTMarch 23, 2015The San Francis and Portland, Ore., metropolan areas have the greatt percentage of rints who are gay, as we wrote last week. That distctn stead go to New York and Los two metro areas are so large — the only two the untry wh more than 10 ln rints — that they lead the way on many populatn unts, cludg the number of people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr. Michael Appleton for The New York TimYou n see a stterplot parg the percentage of gay rints each of the untry’s 50 largt metro areas wh the number of gay rints.

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

New York has the dot fartht to the right, bee has the greatt number of gay rints — though you n also see New York’s share is roughly average for a top-50 metro is a posive rrelatn between metro-area size and the share of rints who are gay: Larger regns tend to have a higher percentage of gay rints.

Some large metro areas, like Chigo and Hoton, have relatively small gay populatns, and some smaller areas, like Portland, have relatively large gay populatns. As a rult, there has long been a shroud of uncertaty around the geography of gay and lbian Amerins. 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.

HOW MANY GAYS HAS NEW YORK CY?

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.

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.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

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

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

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.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

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.

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.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

“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.