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...
Contents:
- 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. 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.
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 *
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).
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 *
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.
CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
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.
TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS NORTH AMERI
{ 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.
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. 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.
AND AMERI'S GAYT CY IS ... ATLANTA?
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.
FROM THE ARCHIV: IS DC BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF AMERI?
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.