The 25 gayt ci Texas - Dallas Voice

Contents:

• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• GAYT PLAC IN TEXAS FOR 2020
• THE 25 GAYT CI TEXAS
• MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• A GAY GUI TO DALLAS
• DALLAS GAY MAP

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

As a rult, there has long been a shroud of uncertaty around the geography of gay and lbian Amerins.

GAYT PLAC IN TEXAS FOR 2020

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. 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. The least gay urban areas are the Midwt and South.

Gay Ameri, rather than beg nfed to a few plac, spreads across every major regn of the untry.

THE 25 GAYT CI TEXAS

6 percent of adults nsir themselv gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr. 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. ” 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.

MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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. 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.

A GAY GUI TO DALLAS

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. Bis tn, a few other factors rrelate wh havg bigger gay populatns.

Metro areas wh a greater share of gay and lbian rints tend to lean Democratic.

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.

DALLAS GAY MAP

Advocy nnectn has helped the gay muny and the church fd mon ground. 6 percent of the populatn intifi as gay. As recently as 1988, Southern Baptists passed an official rolutn llg homosexualy “praved.