Edor’s note: This article appeared the September 1980 issue of The Washgtonian. Although is past midnight, the clothg store on the top floor of the DC Eagle, one of Washgton's bit gay bars, is still open. Hky...
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- THE 10 GAYEST CI IN AMERI FOR 2020
- THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
- WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
- THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY AMERI—THE ANSWER IS SURPRISG
- CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
- TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS NORTH AMERI
- AND AMERI'S GAYT CY IS ... ATLANTA?
- FROM THE ARCHIV: IS DC BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF AMERI?
THE 10 GAYEST CI IN AMERI FOR 2020
A Gallup survey found that 3.6% of adults across the natn nsir themselv gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr * the gay capital of america *
Same-sex marriag, and the gay and lbian movement is more mastream than the natnal discsn has been brought to the foreont, at the state level, nversatns goal wh this post is to e data and science to terme the gayt ci analyzg 72 of the largt ci Ameri, we’ve termed the ci have the largt gay populatn as a Francis, CA (Photos)Atlanta, GA (Photos)St.
THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
San Francis is known for s annual Pri ftival, LGBT performanc and open gay bars. But how exactly did this e to be? * the gay capital of america *
San Francis proper isn’t jt the gay pal of the US, ’s the gay pal of the Of San Francis by HomeSnacks UserI felt happy to stay San Francis, Good surroundgs, people like to enjoy and helpful to I like to go goln bridge, Co towerHoeholds: 199, 478. We looked at:Percentage of all hoeholds that are unmarried, same-sex partnersWe limed the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 100, 000 ranked each cy om 1 to 72 wh the cy ntag the hight percentage of unmarried, same-sex partners hoeholds beg the most the end, San Francis was the gayt cy wh ~2% gay hoeholds.
Or skip to the end to see the list of all the plac the state om gayt to You Have It – The Gatt Ci In AmeriSo, while we all knew San Francis would be the gayt cy the untry, we add to the list wh ci like Atlanta and while the gayt ci are ually on the asts, Mneapolis do make an appearance the top if you’re terted, here are the least gay ci:DetroVirgia BeachLlnFor more readg, check out:Top 20 Bt Ci To Retire To In AmeriBt Stat In AmeriRankCy% Gay Hoeholds1San Francis, CA2.
What was surprisg, to at least, was the relatively low percentage of hoeholds that reported to the Cens as gay San Francis — only got thkg, if the gayt cy the untry has a gay populatn that small, how small mt the gay populatn be across Ameri?
WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
San Francis has long been regard as Ameri's gay pal, but a new list seeks to dispel that assumptn: Atlanta tops Advote magaze's list of the gayt ci the U.S., followed by Burlgton, Vt.; Iowa Cy, Iowa; and Bloomgton, Ind. * the gay capital of america *
The bottom of the overall list (25-50) is no surprise as a bunch of Midwtern stat and the South populate the bottom half (At least people don’t report livg same sex hoeholds there, we’d image the% of the populatn that is gay is pretty nsistent everywhere). One leadg thor said the Gay and lbian culture is as much a part of New York’s basic inty as yellow bs, high-ris, and Broadway theater New York Cy was home to the 1969 Stonewall Rts at the Greenwich Village Inn, loted the gay district of Manhattan. The were a seri of spontaneo and sometim vlent protts agast the New York Cy police, which the gay muny felt was discrimatg agast them, sce the 50s and 60s, gays were not weled to many protts led to gay activist anizatns beg formed New York, and a year later, the world’s first gay pri march and celebratns were held New York York Cy also has the largt transgenr populatn the Uned Stat, timated at 50, 000 people, ncentrated Manhattan and Queens.
Portland is also one of the few spots the world where LGBT (and straight) upl have easy accs to surrogacy, IUI, IUF and egg donatnHow We Calculated The Gayt Stat In Ameri Per Capa For 2020We’ve been rankg ci for over three years now and we always start our quts for data the same manner — as stroll through the Amerin Communy, as we expected given that we’ve already wrten on the topic of gay plac several time, we knew they wouldn’t time we were directed to table B11009 om the 2014-2018 5yr ACS which reports on same sex unmarried looked at the followg two creria:Unmarried-partner: Male hoeholr and male partnerUnmarried-partner: Female hoeholr and female partnerNext, we summed them up for each state and divid by the total number of hoeholds the stat.
THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY AMERI—THE ANSWER IS SURPRISG
The USA has bee a iendlier place for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual muny sce 2003 when Massachetts beme the first state to legalise same-sex marriage. Over 35 stat, together wh the District of Columbia, have sce followed su this progrsive movement. Var US ci have weled the LGBT muny wh open arms, celebratg * the gay capital of america *
{ first}} n take pri s rankg this year as the gayt state the you’re thkg of tryg to move to gay muny, then stick to a, if that isn’t the rds, there’s always a big cy close by wh a gayborhood or two that’ll wele you ’s a quick look at the least Gay stat on the list:WyomgMontanaMississippiFor more readg, check out:Bt Stat In AmeriBt Plac To Live In AmeriDetailed List Of The Gayt Stat In Ameri For 2020RankState% Gay1Nevada0.
CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
Blick arrived to share telligence about a new threat, one that, he suggted, uld stabilize Amerin natnal secury om wh: the existence of gay staffers at the hight levels of began by explag that “a well-known pnage tactic” entailed lurg female ernment staffers “to the munist unrground by volvg them lbian practic.
TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS NORTH AMERI
C., was “simultaneoly the gayt and most antigay cy Ameri, ” a place which queer people were omniprent—but so, too, was the risk of you went lookg for the prototypil queer staffer among the book’s st of characters—Kirchick helpfully lists the dramatis personae at the ont of the book—you might settle on Carmel Offie, who, spe a most background, got a job wh the Ambassador to Honduras when he was jt twenty-two, the early neteen-thirti. A lleague of Offie’s once lled him “as homosexual as you n get, ” and Kirchick reunts mors that Offie, who reportedly scribed his bedroom as “the playg fields of Eton, ” had a romantic relatnship wh William Bullt, the Ambassador to the Soviet Unn, for whom he eventually went to work.
Though not que to the level of a “homosexual rg, ” a notable ntgent of high-level gay iends and staffers worked for Reagan, for stance, and queer people ma up a signifint share of other Admistratns throughout the middle and latter parts of the twentieth century.
For years, the prs went along wh this discretn, but that mutually assured silence began to unravel durg Roosevelt’s third term, when a New York Post article that acced the Massachetts senator David Walsh of visg a “hoe of gradatn”—the Post never ed the word “homosexual”—gurated outg as a polil weapon. Kirchick posns “Secret Cy” as a lightly revisnist work, notg that “most narrativ of the movement for gay equaly” emphasize the Stonewall uprisg, the assassatn of Harvey Milk, and the mpaign agast the antigay activist Ana Bryant before sistg that “the spark for the revolutn was l, and s flame was tend, Washgton, DC.
AND AMERI'S GAYT CY IS ... ATLANTA?
Kameny subsequently built up the cy’s first staed gay anizatn and is rightly regard as a pneer for equal the tth most clearly revealed by Kirchick’s foc on Washgton is one that queer historians have emphasized for years: that change was prompted not by those the halls of power but by activists workg well outsi of them. The high pot of his si fightg seems to have arrived 1982, when Dolan wrote to the Admistratn to cricize the Fay Protectn Act, which banned any anizatn that st homosexualy as an “acceptable life style” om receivg feral fundg, and a month later, when he apologized for g antigay language his N. Among them are directors Todd Hayn and G Van Sant and 89-year-old Darcelle XV, who holds the Guns World Rerd for world's olst drag don't have a gayborhood like other ci, "Portland is such a blue bubble we don't have the need for those typ of enclav, like other parts of the untry still do, " LGBTQ rights advote Sie Shepherd told Willamette Week.
"This survey, and Portland's victory, is yet another example of the pth and diversy of choic that LGBTQ+ travelers have today, " John Tanzella, print and CEO of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn, told travel, he said, "isn't limed to the largt ci but spans an creasg number of statns that have ma a genue effort to make all travelers feel wele and clud their offergs. Photo cred: Goln Gate Natnal Parks ConservancyDurg WWI, “blue discharg” (a form of admistrative ary discharge) were issued by the US to people who were ught engagg homosexual San Francis beg the last port of ll before war the Pacific, many homosexuals were left behd to form their own muny of “intified gays”. At a time of rampant discrimatn, he beme a voice for the LGBT muny wh bold reform agendas that protect gay phed for improvements lol servic and facili Castro, and spoke out on important issu for margalised muni (LGBT people, women, racial mori etc) cred: The Bold ItalicHe also sponsored an anti-discrimatn bill and helped pass a gay rights ordance removg anti-gay discrimatn hog and today, his ntributns are wily regnised wh the muny and paved the way for future ton and gay policians like Gav Newsom and Mark Leno.
For stance, Bobbi Campbell led tnal projects that helped spread awarens about “Gay Cancer” and s, San Francis remas one of the ontnners AIDS rearch and and Events that scream #PriIf you’re thkg of makg a trip down to the vibrant Castro District, here are some plac and events to check out:Tw Peaks TavernBack the day, gay bars operated only behd closed wdows, hidn om the rt of the neighbourhood. Is home to the untry’s first PRIDE anizatn (Personal Rights through Defense and Edutn, 1966), first gay para (by the ad hoc Los Angel Commtee to Fight Excln of Homosexuals om the Armed Forc), the earlit known lbian publitn (Vice Versa, 1947), the first documented Supreme Court lg favor of gay rights (One Inc v.
FROM THE ARCHIV: IS DC BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF AMERI?
From the thrivg gay and lbian bars and trendy rtrants, f, and boutique hotels the Short North Arts District to the gay and lbian iendly muni of Cltonville and German Village, this Midwtern pal is one of Gay Ameri’s risg stars.
The end of prohibn, the discharge of gay soldiers to the cy after WWII, the 1950s Beat Movement and the new polil nscns of the ‘60s leadg to the “Summer of Love” all helped make San Francis an important statn for queer migrants g om other parts of the Uned Stat and across the World. The so-lled “blue discharg” were public, so forced gay servicemen to e out of the closet and ma difficult for many to rume their civilian Francis was the major Navy port for the Pacific Ocean theater durg World War II, so thoands of the soldiers were released om service the Cy. The article examed data such as the number of same-sex uple hoeholds per pa, elected gay officials, statewi marriage equaly; other measur were more creative: the number of gay bars, cisg areas and gay-iendly films rented a particular zip .