Wtern regns top the list, perhaps the most tailed analysis yet of the mography of gay and lbian Ameri.
Contents:
- THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
- THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
Gone is the closeted, often tolerant Washgton; the pal is now perhaps the gayt place the natn. * gay population washington dc *
8 percent of the entire populatn intify themselv as part of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Transsexual, Queer (LGBTQ) muny, acrdg to a new analysis by rearchers at the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law.
5 percent of adults Ameri scribe themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, which totals about 11.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioTen percent of adults the District of Columbia intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, nearly three tim the natnal average.
THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
What mak the cy such a gay-iendly place? 15, 2013WASHINGTON — My earlit sense of what meant to be gay the natn’s pal me more than a ago when I was a summer tern.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
But the msage was as clear as was unsettlg for a 20-year-old stgglg wh his own sexual inty: There were plenty of gay people Washgton, even at the hight levels of ernment. I now live the gayt place don’t take my word for . Consir what surveys by Gallup and the Cens Bure have found about the gay populatn here.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
When the District of Columbia is pared wh the 50 stat, has the hight percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to Gallup. The natnal average is jt unr 1 of my first observatns about my new cy was the throngs of gay men I would see over the urse of a typil day all over town — walkg their dogs my neighborhood before work, ridg the Metro, workg the halls of Congrs. “There’s an openly gay prence that mak you thk you’re the Castro or Wt Hollywood, and wasn’t always the se, ” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general durg the Clton admistratn who was one of several openly gay people appoted by Print Clton, told me.
“The feral ernment was a nightmare for homosexuals for s, and then wasn’t.