Millns of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people live ral areas of the U.S. — largely by choice, acrdg to Movement Advancement Project.
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- GAY RAL AMERI: UP TO 5 PERCENT OF RAL RINTS ARE LGBTQ, REPORT FDS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
GAY RAL AMERI: UP TO 5 PERCENT OF RAL RINTS ARE LGBTQ, REPORT FDS
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Fifty six percent of gay, lbian and bisexual people across the untry reported at least one stance of discrimatn or patient profilg a health re settg. "‘SETTLING INTO RURAL LIFE’While challeng for LGBTQ people n be “amplified” ral areas, the report also found bright spots for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people livg nonmetropolan upl and LGBTQ dividuals are raisg children ral areas at higher rat than urban areas. Yet he moved back 2013, to a small town outsi Erie to start his own said that while he felt safe Philly’s “gayborhood, ” he was often verbally harassed other areas of the cy and knew of vlent attacks on gay was nervo to move back to ral Pennsylvania, fearg social isolatn and reprsn.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
One study of lbian, gay, bisexual, and qutng (LGBQ) youth found that, although both ral and non-ral LGBQ youth reported signifintly greater risk of prsn pared to their non-LGBQ peers, there were no signifint differenc prsn when parg ral LGBQ youth to LGBQ youth om urban and suburban areas (Price-Feeney, Ybarra, & Mchell, 2019).
Further, a study of lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth Canada also found siar rat of prsn among ral and urban youth; however, they found that ral LGB boys, but not ral LGB girls, were more likely to nsir and attempt suici than those om urban and suburban areas (Poon & Saewyc, 2009). My study found that many LGBTQ people ral areas view their sexual inty substantially differently om their urban unterparts – and qutn the mers of urban gay life.
The standard narrative of ral gay life is that ’s tough for LGBTQ kids who flee their ral hometowns for inic urban “gayborhoods” like Chigo’s Boystown or the Castro San Francis – plac where they n fd love, feel “normal” and be surround by others like them. Those who returned home om urban gayborhoods also told me they found gay cy livg rarely livered on s promis of pannship and cln. Such ments ll to qutn certa assumptns of the ntemporary gay rights movement, cludg that “gayborhoods” are the pnacle of gay life and that ral Ameri is no place for LGBTQ people.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Along wh the report, MAP has veloped remendatn sheets for employers, tors, muny anizatns, and rourc below are signed to support LGBT people livg ral areas and get them touch wh the muni, works and rourc they need to thrive ral SUPPORT/HOTLINESFIND A LOCAL LGBT COMMUNITY CENTERCenterLk LGBT Communy Center Member DirectoryLGBT LEGAL QUESTIONS OR ASSISTANCELambda Legal Help Dk (by phone or onle form)GLAD Answers (by phone, email, or chat)Natnal Center for Lbian Rights Legal Informatn Helple (by phone or email)Transgenr Law Center Legal Informatn Helple (onle form)Transgenr Legal Defense & Edutn Fund (TLDEF) Name Change Project (onle form)California Rural Legal AssistanceRURAL & LGBT COMMUNITIES OF COLOR RESOURCESFd queer and trans people of lor anizatns by stateBlack Appalachia Color Bloq: QTPoC the South, Red Stat, and Non-Urban CommuniMany Voic: A Black Church Movement for Gay & Transgenr JticeNatnal Black Jtice CoalnNatnal Congrs of Amerin Indians Natnal Queer Asian Pacific Islanr Alliance Northeast Two-Spir Society’s directory of Two-Spir groupsQueer & Trans People of Color (QTPoC) Mental Health onle spaceTransLat@ Coaln 's LGBT-Two-Spir page FAITH RESOURCESFd LGBT-affirmg Christian church by nomatn or Black church Fd LGBT-clive synagogu, templ, and other Jewish programmgFd LGBT Mlim anizatns and hereMany Voic: A Black Church Movement for Gay & Transgenr JticeOTHER RESOURCESFd a GLSEN chapter to create LGBTQ-clive schoolsFd (or start) a PFLAG chapterFd (or start) a GSA your schoolLearn more about the legal landspe for LGBT people your munyFd transgenr-clive healthre provirs through RAD Remedy and Trans the South om the Campaign for Southern EqualyFd your state LGBT equaly group through the Equaly FeratnCampaign for Southern EqualyQueer Appalachia Southerners on New Ground (SONG). Although many thk of urban enclav like San Francis’s Castro district, the Philalphia ‘Gayborhood’ or New York’s Greenwich Village as the primary statns for queer people to vis and live, there are a number of small towns sttered throughout the untry that boast major attractns for queer visors and rints.
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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.