Out the untry – ral hotspots found as gay populatn mapped | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE ARE THE PARTS OF THE UK WH THE MOST LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE
• BRA'S 'GAY PALS' REVEALED - FD OUT WHERE YOUR PART OF THE UK RANKS
• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??
• GAY MANCHTER: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

THE ARE THE PARTS OF THE UK WH THE MOST LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE

Close behd London our Rabow Ci Inx is Brighton, a cy that is world renowned for s vibrant gay village and fantastic nightlife offerg. Its gay village has been named as ‘one of the most succsful Europe’ and Manchter self is equently scribed as ‘the gay pal of the North’, so we uldn’t not clu on our list.

Home to a fantastic gay village, as well as plenty of clubs, bars and shops and an annual Pri ftival, Birmgham is a great place to vis for all.

BRA'S 'GAY PALS' REVEALED - FD OUT WHERE YOUR PART OF THE UK RANKS

If you do one thg: Go to the annual Homotopia Ftival – is the UK’s longt nng LGBTQIA arts and cultural ftival, they’ve been around for nearly 20 years and are one of the biggt LGBTQIA arts anisatns the whole of the UK. Relatively new on the scene, s gay quarter was only tablished 2018 but now enpass The Moor, Hereford Street and the long-nng Dempsey’s bar and club.

Place to eat or drk: Dempseys is the biggt gay bar the cy – open seven days a week until the early hours, there’s even karaoke to tempt you….

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

Known as the Pk Triangle, the gay village n be found between the Metro Rad Arena and Central Statn which boasts endls thgs to see and do at all hours of the day. The Office for Natnal Statistics has llected data between 2013 and 2015 on the UK's gay, lbian and bisexual populatnA flag held up to celebrate gay pri central LondonBra's 'gay pals' have been revealed after sexual inty was analysed by the Office of Natnal Statistics. Six of the 10 boroughs wh the hight relative lbian, gay and bisexual populatns revealed to be London, and Manchter was also high up on the list.

3 ln people England and Wal intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cens data has revealed for the first people aged 16 and over, more than 1. 6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people. 7%) of people intifyg as "LGB+", - lbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual of the other lol thori the top 10 were Wal, Cardiff was the lol thory wh the biggt LGB+ populatn (5.

However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight.

THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??

Over 2, 500 participants om each cy were asked to rank out of five, three liftyle factors: the strength of their cy’s gay datg scene, the qualy of s LBGT nightlife, and the openns of their fellow cizens. The pani methodology towards the LGBT Nightlife tegory is: Wh their vibrant atmosphere and sense of clivy, gay-iendly parti and venu are often the beatg heart of a cy’s night scene. The UK’s gay populatn has been mapped by the Office for Natnal Statistics (ONS) for the first time, revealg ncentratns of lbian, gay and bisexual people om central London to ral ONS – the ernment’s statistics body – has mapped how many people told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, broken down by unty and by lol thory, for an experimental dataset verg 2013 to of the fdgs are unsurprisg: six of the 10 lol thori wh the hight relative lbian, gay and bisexual populatns are ner London, cludg Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark, while Brighton and Manchter also make the the unty-by-unty data puts ral Devon slightly ahead of East Ssex (excludg the unary thory of Brighton and Hove, which is unted separately om the rt of the unty).

GAY MANCHTER: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW

There was a gay men’s group, so there had always been ltle groups, but there wasn’t a Pri event, so part of our missn was to crease visibily, ” he add: “It might be that people are startg to feel like they n live ral lotns and not jt London, Brighton and Manchter, and maybe part of is about feelg more nfint to report . 4% of people intify as gay, lbian or bisexual, wh a lower-end range as low as one 1, 000 people scribg themselv to rearchers as such. For other unti, such as Buckghamshire and Suffolk, there was too ltle data available to produce robt timat, the ONS ONS created the dataset by bg data on 560, 000 dividuals om three years of the Annual Populatn Survey, which gathers data through nfintial phone or -person allowed the anisatn to break down the rults to a more lol level than prev reports, which foced on Guasp, head of rearch at LGBT mpaign group Stonewall, said: “It’s enuragg to see rearch efforts to ga a better unrstandg of the lbian, gay, bi and trans populatn and intify the diverse needs of different LGBT muni Bra.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

“Lots of out people would have difficulty intifyg themselv as gay to someone om the ernment who’s knockg on the door … ’s always gog to be a particular challenge for some people to answer that qutn hontly. ”But although the laws Stormont lag some way behd the rt of the UK – was the last untry to crimalise gay sex, and gay marriage remas illegal – attus Northern Ireland have progrsed rapidly, Boyd said.