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Contents:
- THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
- MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- GAYT PLAC IN WASHGTON FOR 2020
- D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?
- THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
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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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioTen percent of adults the District of Columbia intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, nearly three tim the natnal average. But the msage was as clear as was unsettlg for a 20-year-old stgglg wh his own sexual inty: There were plenty of gay people Washgton, even at the hight levels of ernment.
When the District of Columbia is pared wh the 50 stat, has the hight percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to Gallup. The natnal average is jt unr 1 of my first observatns about my new cy was the throngs of gay men I would see over the urse of a typil day all over town — walkg their dogs my neighborhood before work, ridg the Metro, workg the halls of Congrs.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
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“There’s an openly gay prence that mak you thk you’re the Castro or Wt Hollywood, and wasn’t always the se, ” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general durg the Clton admistratn who was one of several openly gay people appoted by Print Clton, told me. Vansa Vick for The New York TimSuch ubiquy isn’t jt an abundance of gay bars, though there are at least six wh walkg distance of my hoe the Logan Circle neighborhood of Northwt Washgton.
MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
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On the days I make the 20-mute walk om home to my office near the Whe Hoe, I will pass one example after another of this cy’s thrivg gay enomy: a Mchell Gold & Bob Williams furnure store; a clothg retailer whose wdow displays regularly feature bare-torso, well-endowed mannequs nothg but ty briefs; three CrossF gyms; the offic of two gay newspapers, The Washgton Bla and Metro Weekly (most ci nnot even sta one); a bathhoe; and the natnal headquarters for the Human Rights walkg through the Dupont Circle neighborhood the other night would have found themselv fightg for siwalk space wh the hundreds of spectators — many of them straight — who had gathered to watch the 17th Street High Heel Race, an annual sprt for drag queens who tear down the block heels.
GAYT PLAC IN WASHGTON FOR 2020
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And when I tried to make plans a few weekends ago, I found most of my iends were booked solid bee they were attendg one of two huge gay-themed events: the Human Rights Campaign annual black-tie dner, featurg Jennifer Lopez as the ma event; or the Miss Adams Man drag pageant, which is such a large productn tak over the Washgton our feral district is measured agast other ci wh large gay populatns, a parison that experts say is better than parg to stat, still ranks at the top of the list. The numbers pture only those who acknowledge beg a same-sex gay man or lbian I spoke to for this article had a horror story about what was like workg the closet, fearg they would be found out. It was only durg the Clton years that the Whe Hoe fally end the s-long practice of nyg secury clearance to people known to be gay or lbian.
D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?
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That meant orr to be nsired for many high-level jobs volvg accs to classified rmatn, gays and lbians had to nct a web of li about their personal Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist who worked on Capol Hill for years, scribed how he and his gay iends had to make sure they all gave the same referenc to ernment agents vtigatg their backgrounds, an surance policy so that if the qutn of their sexual orientatn me up, they uld be certa no one unpredictable would spill the Rosen, a longtime Democratic lobbyist, told me that the 1980s she once unsuccsfully tried to persua Senator Orr G.
Richard Soris, a lawyer who was one of Print Clton’s openly gay appote, said that the early 1990s when he was applyg for a job on Capol Hill the office of Senator Tom Hark, Democrat of Iowa, one of the senator’s associat said that Mr. Sean Bugg, executive director of the Next Generatn Learship Foundatn and edor emer of Metro Weekly, relled beg a reporter verg tax issu on Capol Hill 1990 when he bumped to another reporter he regnized at the Dakota Cowgirl, a popular gay bar at the time.
Bar scene today, wh old stalwarts like JR’s, wh s one-for-every-taste clientele, and newer addns like Number 9, which n feel like perpetual happy hour for the cy’s gay polil-media plex. Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commtee, told me an pecially amb young man once hunted him down on the dance floor of a lol gay bar and hand him his résumé. Gradually, they have fanned out om Dupont Circle, which is now full of heterosexual fai, all across the of the anecdot and statistics raise a puzzlg qutn about the District’s gay and lbian populatn: Why are they all here?
THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
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Elmendorf told me he thks that gay people, bee they were mostly whout children, were able to rist the draw of higher pay the private sector.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
“All the straight people would leave, worryg about how they were gog to send their kids to Sidwell Friends, ” he said, referrg to the ele private school that graduated Chelsea Clton and currently t the Obama repeal of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy 2010 also helped draw more gay people out of the closet. Washgton has always had a large ary populatn, many of whom were sred of beg too open about who they were until the law gays and lbians moved om the recs of society to the mastream, few major ci have seen such an obv impact as Washgton.