Revealed: 5 Bt Stat In Ameri For Gay Travelers (And The 5 Worst)

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• WHY LGBT PEOPLE ARE MOVG TO RED STATMOVING OUTLGBT PEOPLE ARE LEAVG URBAN, ASTAL HUBS FOR NSERVATIVE CI. SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 09, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTDPE SKEWG DEMOCRAT, LGBT PEOPLE ARE FLOCKG TO RED STAT. IT’S A SIGN THAT CI THE CENTER OF THE UNTRY ARE BEG MORE ACCEPTG, BUT ’S ALSO AN DITN THAT TRADNAL LGBT SAFE HAVENS ARE PROHIBIVELY ANALYZED U.S. CENS DATA AND GALLUP POLLG RMATN TO MOL THE MOVEMENT OF THE LGBT MUNY OM 1990 TO 2014. THE OVERALL TREND IS STRIKG. IN 1990, THE LGBT POPULATN WAS NCENTRATED ASTAL METROPOLAN AREAS AND OTHER SAFE HAVENS—CI LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, AND ATLANTA. BY 2014, LGBT HOT SPOTS CROPPED UP SOME SEEMGLY UNLIKELY PLAC: SALT LAKE CY, LOUISVILLE, NORFOLK, INDIANAPOLIS, AND OTHER RED STATE CI.THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS RANKS EACH CY BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF S RINTS WHO INTIFIED AS LGBT EACH YEAR. IN 1990, FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY 1 PERCENT OF THE SALT LAKE POPULATN INTIFIED AS LGBT, GIVG THE CY A RANKG OF 39. BY 2014, NEARLY 5 PERCENT OF SALT LAKE CY’S POPULATN WAS LGBT AND THE CY WAS RANKED 7TH OVERALL.SEVERAL OF THE CI THAT ROSE THE RANKGS WERE TRADNALLY RED STAT. MEANWHILE, MANY LGBT SAFE HAVENS LIKE MNEAPOLIS, SAN DIEGO, AND NEW YORK FELL THE RANKGS. SAN FRANCIS REMAS THE UNDISPUTED LGBT PAL OF THE UNTRY BUT EVEN THERE, THE LGBT POPULATN FELL BY A FEW TENTHS OF A PERCENT OVER THE LAST AND A HALF. “WHAT YOU’RE REALLY SEEG IS REFLECTIVE OF OTHER NATNAL TRENDS,” SAID CONSUMERAFFAIRS NTENT MANAGER RYAN DALY. “SPECIFILLY, L UP WH PEOPLE—PECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE—CHOOSG LS TO LIVE HUGE, EXPENSIVE CI, WHICH WERE TRADNALLY IENDLIER TOWARD LGBTQ DIVIDUALS, AND CHOOSG STEAD TO MAKE LIV FOR THEMSELV SMALL AND MID-TIER CI THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STAT.”LONGTIME LGBT BASTNS LIKE SEATTLE, LOS ANGEL, NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND D.C. DID TECHNILLY SEE CREAS THE PERCENT OF THE POPULATN THAT INTIFIED AS LGBT. BUT THAT’S TO BE EXPECTED, GIVEN GROWG CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE OUT OF THE CLOSET—ONE RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT 7 PERCENT OF U.S. ADULTS AGED 18 TO 35 WERE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, OR TRANSGENR.BUT THOSE CI AND OTHER METROPOLAN AREAS BLUE STAT FELL THE OVERALL CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKG SPE THE CREAS, WHICH SUGGTS THAT MANY LGBT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSG TO LIVE AFFORDABLE CI STEAD. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’LL STILL FD PLENTY OF GAY PEOPLE NEW YORK BUT MORE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE TREK TO UTAH STEAD. AND THAT MAK SENSE: NEW YORK CY SR A FULL 100 ON THE CONSUMER PRICE INX AND SALT LAKE CY LANDS BELOW 70.“THE DRIVERS FOR THIS MOVEMENT ARE ENOMIC,” SAID DALY. “SMALLER CI HAVE SHORTER MUT, CHEAPER RENT, AND LS PETN FOR GOOD-PAYG JOBS. AND A LOT OF SMALLER CI ARE VTG THE KD OF ASTCTURE (PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN AND AMENI, WALKABILY AND NSY NEAR CY CENTERS) THAT YOUNG PEOPLE VALUE.” BUT THE ENOMIC MOTIVATORS ARE POUND BY A SLOW WAVE OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL CHANGE. IN 2009, SALT LAKE BEME THE FIRST UTAH CY TO PASS LGBT HOG AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTNS. LOUISVILLE, WHICH NOW RANKS 11TH THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS, PASSED A SIAR LAW 1999. THE MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS, WHICH CLIMBED FIVE SPOTS THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKGS, SIGNED AN ORDANCE PROVIDG BENEFS FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS OF CY EMPLOYE 2012.THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN FERAL ACTNS OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS THAT MAY HAVE MA LGBT PEOPLE FEEL SAFER VENTURG TO STAT THAT LACK MORE LOL PROTECTNS. IN 1998, BILL CLTON SIGNED A LIMED EXECUTIVE ORR PROHIBG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE THE FERAL WORKFORCE. IN 2014, PRINT OBAMA BOLSTERED THAT PROTECTN, ADDG GENR INTY AND PROHIBG HIRG DISCRIMATN AS WELL.THAT SAME YEAR, FERAL AND SUPREME COURT ACTNS EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A HUGE SWATH OF RED STAT: ARIZONA, COLORADO, KANSAS, INDIANA, MONTANA, NORTH CAROLA, SOUTH CAROLA, OKLAHOMA, UTAH, VIRGIA, WT VIRGIA, WISNS, AND WYOMG. NOW, OF URSE, IS LEGAL NATNWI.“WH NATNAL LAWS STARTG TO REFLECT THE GROWG SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS, STATE LAWS ARE STARTG TO MATTER LS WHEN TO WHERE LGBTQ DIVIDUALS CHOOSE TO LIVE,” SAID DALY.MANY OF THE SMALLER CI RED STAT ARE STILL FAR OM PERFECT PLAC FOR LGBT PEOPLE TO LIVE. TWENTY-EIGHT STAT LACK ANY LGBT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS. AND THERE ARE CURRENTLY SEVERAL STATE-LEVEL CHALLENG TO LGBT RIGHTS, PECIALLY TRANSGENR RIGHTS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE NORTH CAROLA STATE ERNMENT IS ATTEMPTG TO OVERTURN AN LGBT NON-DISCRIMATN ORDANCE PASSED LAST MONTH CHARLOTTE, WHICH ROSE OM A RANKG OF 42 TO 33 THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS.BUT BETWEEN THEIR POCKETBOOKS AND THE LAW BOOKS, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS TO MOVE AWAY OM THE ASTS. SORRY, SAN FRANCIS. SAMANTHA ALLEN
• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
• 11 GAY-IENDLY SMALL CI BIG RED STAT
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• REVEALED: 5 BT STAT IN AMERI FOR GAY TRAVELERS (AND THE 5 WORST)

WHY LGBT PEOPLE ARE MOVG TO RED STATMOVING OUTLGBT PEOPLE ARE LEAVG URBAN, ASTAL HUBS FOR NSERVATIVE CI. SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 09, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTDPE SKEWG DEMOCRAT, LGBT PEOPLE ARE FLOCKG TO RED STAT. IT’S A SIGN THAT CI THE CENTER OF THE UNTRY ARE BEG MORE ACCEPTG, BUT ’S ALSO AN DITN THAT TRADNAL LGBT SAFE HAVENS ARE PROHIBIVELY ANALYZED U.S. CENS DATA AND GALLUP POLLG RMATN TO MOL THE MOVEMENT OF THE LGBT MUNY OM 1990 TO 2014. THE OVERALL TREND IS STRIKG. IN 1990, THE LGBT POPULATN WAS NCENTRATED ASTAL METROPOLAN AREAS AND OTHER SAFE HAVENS—CI LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, AND ATLANTA. BY 2014, LGBT HOT SPOTS CROPPED UP SOME SEEMGLY UNLIKELY PLAC: SALT LAKE CY, LOUISVILLE, NORFOLK, INDIANAPOLIS, AND OTHER RED STATE CI.THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS RANKS EACH CY BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF S RINTS WHO INTIFIED AS LGBT EACH YEAR. IN 1990, FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY 1 PERCENT OF THE SALT LAKE POPULATN INTIFIED AS LGBT, GIVG THE CY A RANKG OF 39. BY 2014, NEARLY 5 PERCENT OF SALT LAKE CY’S POPULATN WAS LGBT AND THE CY WAS RANKED 7TH OVERALL.SEVERAL OF THE CI THAT ROSE THE RANKGS WERE TRADNALLY RED STAT. MEANWHILE, MANY LGBT SAFE HAVENS LIKE MNEAPOLIS, SAN DIEGO, AND NEW YORK FELL THE RANKGS. SAN FRANCIS REMAS THE UNDISPUTED LGBT PAL OF THE UNTRY BUT EVEN THERE, THE LGBT POPULATN FELL BY A FEW TENTHS OF A PERCENT OVER THE LAST AND A HALF. “WHAT YOU’RE REALLY SEEG IS REFLECTIVE OF OTHER NATNAL TRENDS,” SAID CONSUMERAFFAIRS NTENT MANAGER RYAN DALY. “SPECIFILLY, L UP WH PEOPLE—PECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE—CHOOSG LS TO LIVE HUGE, EXPENSIVE CI, WHICH WERE TRADNALLY IENDLIER TOWARD LGBTQ DIVIDUALS, AND CHOOSG STEAD TO MAKE LIV FOR THEMSELV SMALL AND MID-TIER CI THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STAT.”LONGTIME LGBT BASTNS LIKE SEATTLE, LOS ANGEL, NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND D.C. DID TECHNILLY SEE CREAS THE PERCENT OF THE POPULATN THAT INTIFIED AS LGBT. BUT THAT’S TO BE EXPECTED, GIVEN GROWG CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE OUT OF THE CLOSET—ONE RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT 7 PERCENT OF U.S. ADULTS AGED 18 TO 35 WERE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, OR TRANSGENR.BUT THOSE CI AND OTHER METROPOLAN AREAS BLUE STAT FELL THE OVERALL CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKG SPE THE CREAS, WHICH SUGGTS THAT MANY LGBT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSG TO LIVE AFFORDABLE CI STEAD. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’LL STILL FD PLENTY OF GAY PEOPLE NEW YORK BUT MORE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE TREK TO UTAH STEAD. AND THAT MAK SENSE: NEW YORK CY SR A FULL 100 ON THE CONSUMER PRICE INX AND SALT LAKE CY LANDS BELOW 70.“THE DRIVERS FOR THIS MOVEMENT ARE ENOMIC,” SAID DALY. “SMALLER CI HAVE SHORTER MUT, CHEAPER RENT, AND LS PETN FOR GOOD-PAYG JOBS. AND A LOT OF SMALLER CI ARE VTG THE KD OF ASTCTURE (PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN AND AMENI, WALKABILY AND NSY NEAR CY CENTERS) THAT YOUNG PEOPLE VALUE.” BUT THE ENOMIC MOTIVATORS ARE POUND BY A SLOW WAVE OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL CHANGE. IN 2009, SALT LAKE BEME THE FIRST UTAH CY TO PASS LGBT HOG AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTNS. LOUISVILLE, WHICH NOW RANKS 11TH THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS, PASSED A SIAR LAW 1999. THE MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS, WHICH CLIMBED FIVE SPOTS THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKGS, SIGNED AN ORDANCE PROVIDG BENEFS FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS OF CY EMPLOYE 2012.THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN FERAL ACTNS OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS THAT MAY HAVE MA LGBT PEOPLE FEEL SAFER VENTURG TO STAT THAT LACK MORE LOL PROTECTNS. IN 1998, BILL CLTON SIGNED A LIMED EXECUTIVE ORR PROHIBG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE THE FERAL WORKFORCE. IN 2014, PRINT OBAMA BOLSTERED THAT PROTECTN, ADDG GENR INTY AND PROHIBG HIRG DISCRIMATN AS WELL.THAT SAME YEAR, FERAL AND SUPREME COURT ACTNS EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A HUGE SWATH OF RED STAT: ARIZONA, COLORADO, KANSAS, INDIANA, MONTANA, NORTH CAROLA, SOUTH CAROLA, OKLAHOMA, UTAH, VIRGIA, WT VIRGIA, WISNS, AND WYOMG. NOW, OF URSE, IS LEGAL NATNWI.“WH NATNAL LAWS STARTG TO REFLECT THE GROWG SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS, STATE LAWS ARE STARTG TO MATTER LS WHEN TO WHERE LGBTQ DIVIDUALS CHOOSE TO LIVE,” SAID DALY.MANY OF THE SMALLER CI RED STAT ARE STILL FAR OM PERFECT PLAC FOR LGBT PEOPLE TO LIVE. TWENTY-EIGHT STAT LACK ANY LGBT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS. AND THERE ARE CURRENTLY SEVERAL STATE-LEVEL CHALLENG TO LGBT RIGHTS, PECIALLY TRANSGENR RIGHTS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE NORTH CAROLA STATE ERNMENT IS ATTEMPTG TO OVERTURN AN LGBT NON-DISCRIMATN ORDANCE PASSED LAST MONTH CHARLOTTE, WHICH ROSE OM A RANKG OF 42 TO 33 THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS.BUT BETWEEN THEIR POCKETBOOKS AND THE LAW BOOKS, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS TO MOVE AWAY OM THE ASTS. SORRY, SAN FRANCIS. SAMANTHA ALLEN

Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people.

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"Across the Uned Stat, Amerins have creasgly embraced equal treatment and accs for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) Amerins over the last . Wyomg is the state where Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt, was beaten and left to die the town of Laramie 1998, an cint that shocked the natn. There have been other cints agast gay people recent years, and a gay man who was bullied mted suici 2016.

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

Also, about 22, 000 people me out support of Universy of Wyomg diver Stia Mull, an openly gay athlete, who received All-Amerin regnn. Bars and rtrants wele the the LGBTQ muny, which has gay chos groups and nng clubs. Other Montana ci nsired iendly to gay people are Bozeman and the state pal of people still face challeng such as laws that lim them om adoptg children.

Fargo was the first cy the High Plas state to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn that shield gay people, and also holds the distctn of hostg the longt-nng Pri ftival the state. Kentucky is also one of many stat to pass the State Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, which allows bs owners to opt out of providg service to same-sex upl on relig cy of Morehead ma headl 2015 when cy clerk Kim Davis refed to issue marriage licens for gay upl, floutg the Supreme Court lg that legalized same-sex marriage.

The state passed The Kentucky Relig Freedom Act 2013 that some gay groups feared would nullify ordanc enacted to protect their civi liberti.

11 GAY-IENDLY SMALL CI BIG RED STAT

Sgatuck and Douglas, two small beach towns, are popular statns for gay and lbian travelers, and equently ld as some of the most gay-iendly small towns the untry. 3% – 9th lowt (total LGBTQ people: 137, 000)• CenterLk pri centers: 3 per 100, 000 LGBTQ people – 12th hight (total: 4)South Carola elected s first openly gay state lawmaker 2017 – an attorney om Greenville and a Republin, but his electn has not triggered, as some might have hoped for, a wave of bills protectg LGBTQ people om discrimatn. As of the begng of this year, the bill was still unr Carola has laws allowg discrimatn adoptn and foster placement, anti-sodomy laws, l that crimalize HIV and AIDS, and the State Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, which allows bs to opt out servg gay ctomers on relig grounds.

The state has no rtrictns on nversn therapy and no law agast hate or bias crim based on sexual orientatn and genr parts of Arkansas are iendlier to the gay muny than others.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

9% – 22nd lowt (total LGBTQ people: 139, 000)• CenterLk pri centers: N/AAsi om New Orleans, where LGBTQ people feel wele and that hosts one of the largt gay pri paras the untry, an event first held there 1971, LGBTQ people may face legal challeng that non-LGBTQ rints don't face. To have a gay pri para, 1972. However, was the se of the adlit attack on LGBTQ people Amerin history, when 2016 a gunman killed 49 people and jured dozens more at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando.

Madison has had active anizatns for homosexual rights at least sce the late 1970s. Mneapolis has even been lled the "gayt cy Ameri" by Advote, the natnal gay news the state has no rtrictns on nversn therapy, has a law that addrs hate or bias crim based on sexual orientatn and genr inty and the bullyg of LGBTQ stunts.

REVEALED: 5 BT STAT IN AMERI FOR GAY TRAVELERS (AND THE 5 WORST)

To pass a law requirg schools to teach LGBTQ history and clu the posive ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people their curriculum. 5% – 12th hight (total LGBTQ people: 34, 000)• CenterLk pri centers: 3 per 100, 000 LGBTQ people – 11th hight (total: 1)Delaware advertis self as a gay-iendly tourist statn, specifilly cg s beach and nightlife. LGBTQ+ people tend to leave anti-gay stat for more iendly areas, even if means takg a pay cut of up to 25%, acrdg to Learship also aims to highlight the negative effects of anti-gay laws on bs and their markets.