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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
"‘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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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. 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).