Wtern regns top the list, perhaps the most tailed analysis yet of the mography of gay and lbian Ameri.
Contents:
- THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
- THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
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Mattson, who has extensively rearched recent chang gay bars, veloped his report om the gay bar listgs the Damron Gui, the longt-nng and only guibook that documents LGBTQ plac the natn. So if you’re lookg at the pal of whe cis gay men vers the pal of whe, Black, brown, Asian, Lata, queer women, the dispary is huge.
“When Tanya [the origal owner] me out, was the 1950s, early ’60s, and the bar she ed to go to was always gay men and gay women together bee she told that wasn’t legal. [Tanya] always really enjoyed the pany of gay men and transgenr people, and even though she wanted the lbian space, she never unrstood why the whole gay muny uldn’t socialize wh each other.
’ The opportuny me along for a women’s night at Flix [a gay men’s bar] and I started that women’s night there 2001. “When I was about 16 — my sister’s gay also — we had gone to this club San Anton, Texas, and was kd of the first time that I saw her like a peace a sense, like she was her own element.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
So then when they do e back out, they you know, they e out more sporadilly vers the sgle lbians or queers, gay men. Maybe gays are accepted more, but there’s nothg like the feelg of your own space where you know ‘I’m not gog to be judged if I e here.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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. 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.
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” 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.
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. 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.
THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
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.
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.
“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.