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Contents:

• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• OWNER OF THE METRO, THE NOW-CLOSED GAY BAR, REMEMBERS BIER DAYS AT THE JACKSONVILLE 'SAFE HAVEN'
• ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• GAY DETRO

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

People often thk that when someone lik to do their nails done and pluck their eyebrows, wear hair gel, etc., well, they have to be gay, or at least bisexual.

But, that is not the se bee metrosexuals n be gay, bisexual, or straight. Gay people n be metrosexual, work on a farm, play gby, fix thgs around the hoe — you get the pot.

OWNER OF THE METRO, THE NOW-CLOSED GAY BAR, REMEMBERS BIER DAYS AT THE JACKSONVILLE 'SAFE HAVEN'

Gay men aren’t tomatilly metrosexual jt bee of their sexual preference.

There is a huge misnceptn that has been around for a long time that people started to e ually as an sult, that is, that a metrosexual is a straight guy wh “gay” characteristics. That statement has eper issu, namely that people e to offend a straight male but also show their homophobia wh one sentence. As we already said many tim this article, beg metrosexual don’t make you gay and vice versa.

In the Eighti he was only to be found si fashn magaz such as GQ, televisn advertisements for Levi’s jeans or  gay bars. The ia that a guy n re about fashn, be ncerned about his appearance, and not be gay, and that we should be okay wh that. Further, and more importantly, ’s enuragg the that a metro guy is a straight guy who has “gay” characteristics (well-groomed, well-drsed, etc.

ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY

This is problematic bee the well-groomed well-drsed gay man is a posive stereotype, but a stereotype nohels, and even posive stereotyp are potentially harmful. And straight men and gay men and bi- men n all wa le for a ftg room wh a 34-, 32-, and 30-ch pair of jeans, hopg they f the 32, knowg they should probably by the 34, and only holdg the 30 the same way someone orrs a diet ke wh their whopper: bee feels nice to dream. Better put, all gay men aren’t metro by flt, as the term often leads one to believe.

” That plac the same prsure to look good on gay men that is placed on straight men not to. As a rult, there has long been a shroud of uncertaty around the geography of gay and lbian Amerins. 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. Gay Ameri, rather than beg nfed to a few plac, spreads across every major regn of the untry. 6 percent of adults nsir themselv gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

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. 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.

GAY DETRO

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. 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.