Amerins Still Greatly Overtimate U.S. Gay Populatn

Contents:

• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• AMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY
• AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
• AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat. Are far lower than what the public timat, and no measurement procre has produced any figur suggtg that more than one out of five Amerins are gay or lbian. Among polil partisans, Democrats and pennts timate that about a quarter of Amerins are gay or lbian, while the average approximatn among Republins is a b lower (18.

It is, therefore, possible that Amerins' perceptns of the gay populatn may be fluenced by the greater reprentatn they see among young people.

The poll rults show an creased willgns to self-intify across all four tegori: More people are willg to ll themselv gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr. Intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to a new analysis of ernment data, reprentg nearly 8 percent of the natn’s total adult populatn. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.

AMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY

”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn.

It’s food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture—this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin food.

”As I was fallg love wh Lou’s Roquefort burgers, a gay activist New Mexi named Harry Hay was lnchg a movement lled the Radil Faeri— they’d go off for days-long Faerie Circl the wilrns, like all-male mi Burng Mans, only wh psilocyb-fueled circle jerks. By 1970, he’d e to the ncln that gay men were spirually different om straight on—homosexuals had always been shamans and prophets, jeered, beaten ad, or barely tolerated, livg on the margs. (Hay, who died 2002, was anti-assiatnist, meang he would have been horrified to see the current stggle for gay people to achieve hetero marriage.

AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS

On the si, I told myself, I’m fuckg better than all of there was a gay sensibily, you uld fd on the ld le when I was okg, where every plate I put up had a fierce edge born of imposed isolatn. He grew up Marathon, Iowa, and expatriated to Paris to bee a pater, a or two after great gay expats like Jam Baldw famoly ped Ameri’s racism and pry.

AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

Though he was officially closeted until 1982, the date of his rather strange, gimlet-soaked tobgraphy, A Feast Ma for Lghter, Claiborne lived the life of the gay profsnal mid-twentieth-century Ameri: officially a “bachelor, ” sexlsly flntg his taste and discernment, the Mr. But as for gays breakg out Amerin rtrant kchens, exprsg a queer pot of view their okg—well, apart om a few mavericks like Elizabeth Falkner—that hasn’t really happened.

He found another boyiend, a short Canadian who drove a purple AMC Greml and who nobody liked, not even my mom (she thought he was “too gay”).

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

The percentage of Amerins who say they are satisfied wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people the untry has reached a new peak of 62%, acrdg to a poll released Wednday. Amerins' satisfactn wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people stood out the 2022 poll bee reached the hight level the natn has seen sce Gallup started trackg the trend 2001, though the peak is statistilly siar to 2016 levels.

MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM

Poll rponnts also reported a greater level of satisfactn wh acceptance of gay and lbian people than any of the 20 other issu Gallup tracked this while satisfactn on many of the other issu creased this year, the numbers on gay and lbian dividuals grew substantially: In 2022, 62% of survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gays and lbians the natn, up om 55% 2021 and 56% 2020. Jeff Jon, a senr edor at Gallup, told USA TODAY that the qutn shows whether gay and lbian people are "beg nsired not an outsir group but a normal, mastream group of people the U.

" Fifty-ne percent of Democratic survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people, up om 48% 2021.

Pope appeals to parents:Pope Francis lls on parents to 'never nmn' gay childrenMost LGBTQ elrs feel lonely:Here's what anizatns are dog to help. Back 1948 sex rearcher Aled Ksey famoly suggted that 10 percent of the mal he'd studied were, quote, "more or ls exclively homosexual, " unquote. Also, the Ksey Instute has - which is the legacy of Ksey - has stated very clearly that their view is that this was a kd of a polil cisn of gay activists the '70s.

And they took that rather obscure passage om a Ksey book, which was never tend to be an timate of the number of gay people the Uned Stat and kd of adopted for polil purpos.

Watchg a young gay waer a fay rtrant I tried to put myself a typil Amerin male’s sho and see if I uld unrstand what was so threateng about him. There are untls untri where gay people are treated far worse than here, but jt as many where they are treated better, more like their straight unterparts.

In cultur where men are very fortable wh their sexualy, their emotns and their sensive si, there seems to be more tolerance and ls homophobia. In the 1940s, the Ksey Report helped flate the size of the gay populatn people's mds: Aled Ksey mataed sexualy was fluid, claimg that 13 percent of men were "predomately homosexual" for at least three years between ag 16 and 55.