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GAYT CI AMERI 2023
Wtern regns top the list, perhaps the most tailed analysis yet of the mography of gay and lbian Ameri. * lgbt demographics by city *
This map shows the timated percentage of each state's adult (ag 18+) populatn that intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, based on a 2018 analysis of Gallup data by The Williams Instute. While all 50 stat are required to regnize gay marriag, some stat and ci are more LGBTQ iendly and have higher populatns of gay upl. Portland was the first major cy to elect an openly gay man as mayor 2008 and mandated most public rtrooms to be genr-ntral 2016.
Salt Lake Cy, Utah has two gay cy uncilors, a lbian mayor and a pri ftival of more than 40, 000 participants every year. The ten gayt ci Ameri are:.
This holds te for ne out of 10 ci, pecially the gayt cy the Uned Stat, San Francis, California. Wh the nicknam “gay pal of the world, ” and “the gay Mec, ” San Francis is one of the most important ci the history of LGBTQ rights, alongsi New York Cy. As a rult, there has long been a shroud of uncertaty around the geography of gay and lbian Amerins.
THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
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. 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.