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- BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
- 11 GAY-IENDLY SMALL CI BIG RED STAT
- THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
- WHY LGBT PEOPLE ARE MOVG TO RED STATMOVING OUTLGBT PEOPLE ARE LEAVG URBAN, ASTAL HUBS FOR NSERVATIVE CI. SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 09, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTDPE SKEWG DEMOCRAT, LGBT PEOPLE ARE FLOCKG TO RED STAT. IT’S A SIGN THAT CI THE CENTER OF THE UNTRY ARE BEG MORE ACCEPTG, BUT ’S ALSO AN DITN THAT TRADNAL LGBT SAFE HAVENS ARE PROHIBIVELY ANALYZED U.S. CENS DATA AND GALLUP POLLG RMATN TO MOL THE MOVEMENT OF THE LGBT MUNY OM 1990 TO 2014. THE OVERALL TREND IS STRIKG. IN 1990, THE LGBT POPULATN WAS NCENTRATED ASTAL METROPOLAN AREAS AND OTHER SAFE HAVENS—CI LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, AND ATLANTA. BY 2014, LGBT HOT SPOTS CROPPED UP SOME SEEMGLY UNLIKELY PLAC: SALT LAKE CY, LOUISVILLE, NORFOLK, INDIANAPOLIS, AND OTHER RED STATE CI.THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS RANKS EACH CY BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF S RINTS WHO INTIFIED AS LGBT EACH YEAR. IN 1990, FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY 1 PERCENT OF THE SALT LAKE POPULATN INTIFIED AS LGBT, GIVG THE CY A RANKG OF 39. BY 2014, NEARLY 5 PERCENT OF SALT LAKE CY’S POPULATN WAS LGBT AND THE CY WAS RANKED 7TH OVERALL.SEVERAL OF THE CI THAT ROSE THE RANKGS WERE TRADNALLY RED STAT. MEANWHILE, MANY LGBT SAFE HAVENS LIKE MNEAPOLIS, SAN DIEGO, AND NEW YORK FELL THE RANKGS. SAN FRANCIS REMAS THE UNDISPUTED LGBT PAL OF THE UNTRY BUT EVEN THERE, THE LGBT POPULATN FELL BY A FEW TENTHS OF A PERCENT OVER THE LAST AND A HALF. “WHAT YOU’RE REALLY SEEG IS REFLECTIVE OF OTHER NATNAL TRENDS,” SAID CONSUMERAFFAIRS NTENT MANAGER RYAN DALY. “SPECIFILLY, L UP WH PEOPLE—PECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE—CHOOSG LS TO LIVE HUGE, EXPENSIVE CI, WHICH WERE TRADNALLY IENDLIER TOWARD LGBTQ DIVIDUALS, AND CHOOSG STEAD TO MAKE LIV FOR THEMSELV SMALL AND MID-TIER CI THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STAT.”LONGTIME LGBT BASTNS LIKE SEATTLE, LOS ANGEL, NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND D.C. DID TECHNILLY SEE CREAS THE PERCENT OF THE POPULATN THAT INTIFIED AS LGBT. BUT THAT’S TO BE EXPECTED, GIVEN GROWG CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE OUT OF THE CLOSET—ONE RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT 7 PERCENT OF U.S. ADULTS AGED 18 TO 35 WERE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, OR TRANSGENR.BUT THOSE CI AND OTHER METROPOLAN AREAS BLUE STAT FELL THE OVERALL CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKG SPE THE CREAS, WHICH SUGGTS THAT MANY LGBT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSG TO LIVE AFFORDABLE CI STEAD. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’LL STILL FD PLENTY OF GAY PEOPLE NEW YORK BUT MORE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE TREK TO UTAH STEAD. AND THAT MAK SENSE: NEW YORK CY SR A FULL 100 ON THE CONSUMER PRICE INX AND SALT LAKE CY LANDS BELOW 70.“THE DRIVERS FOR THIS MOVEMENT ARE ENOMIC,” SAID DALY. “SMALLER CI HAVE SHORTER MUT, CHEAPER RENT, AND LS PETN FOR GOOD-PAYG JOBS. AND A LOT OF SMALLER CI ARE VTG THE KD OF ASTCTURE (PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN AND AMENI, WALKABILY AND NSY NEAR CY CENTERS) THAT YOUNG PEOPLE VALUE.” BUT THE ENOMIC MOTIVATORS ARE POUND BY A SLOW WAVE OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL CHANGE. IN 2009, SALT LAKE BEME THE FIRST UTAH CY TO PASS LGBT HOG AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTNS. LOUISVILLE, WHICH NOW RANKS 11TH THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS, PASSED A SIAR LAW 1999. THE MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS, WHICH CLIMBED FIVE SPOTS THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKGS, SIGNED AN ORDANCE PROVIDG BENEFS FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS OF CY EMPLOYE 2012.THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN FERAL ACTNS OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS THAT MAY HAVE MA LGBT PEOPLE FEEL SAFER VENTURG TO STAT THAT LACK MORE LOL PROTECTNS. IN 1998, BILL CLTON SIGNED A LIMED EXECUTIVE ORR PROHIBG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE THE FERAL WORKFORCE. IN 2014, PRINT OBAMA BOLSTERED THAT PROTECTN, ADDG GENR INTY AND PROHIBG HIRG DISCRIMATN AS WELL.THAT SAME YEAR, FERAL AND SUPREME COURT ACTNS EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A HUGE SWATH OF RED STAT: ARIZONA, COLORADO, KANSAS, INDIANA, MONTANA, NORTH CAROLA, SOUTH CAROLA, OKLAHOMA, UTAH, VIRGIA, WT VIRGIA, WISNS, AND WYOMG. NOW, OF URSE, IS LEGAL NATNWI.“WH NATNAL LAWS STARTG TO REFLECT THE GROWG SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS, STATE LAWS ARE STARTG TO MATTER LS WHEN TO WHERE LGBTQ DIVIDUALS CHOOSE TO LIVE,” SAID DALY.MANY OF THE SMALLER CI RED STAT ARE STILL FAR OM PERFECT PLAC FOR LGBT PEOPLE TO LIVE. TWENTY-EIGHT STAT LACK ANY LGBT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS. AND THERE ARE CURRENTLY SEVERAL STATE-LEVEL CHALLENG TO LGBT RIGHTS, PECIALLY TRANSGENR RIGHTS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE NORTH CAROLA STATE ERNMENT IS ATTEMPTG TO OVERTURN AN LGBT NON-DISCRIMATN ORDANCE PASSED LAST MONTH CHARLOTTE, WHICH ROSE OM A RANKG OF 42 TO 33 THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS.BUT BETWEEN THEIR POCKETBOOKS AND THE LAW BOOKS, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS TO MOVE AWAY OM THE ASTS. SORRY, SAN FRANCIS. SAMANTHA ALLEN
BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
LGBTQ+ people tend to leave anti-gay stat for more iendly areas, even if means takg a pay cut of up to 25%, acrdg to Learship also aims to highlight the negative effects of anti-gay laws on bs and their markets.
11 GAY-IENDLY SMALL CI BIG RED STAT
''Florida, Montana among worst for LGBTQ muny The x ranked stat acrdg to five areas: work environment, legal protectns, youth and fay support, health accs and safety, and polil and relig at the top tend to get more clive over the past year, while their lower-ranked peers beme ls tolerant or didn't move om where they were 'T SAY GAY LAWS SPARK FEAR:If they 'say gay, ' will my child be safe? Meanwhile, Florida – which has enacted what opponents ll a "Don't Say Gay'' bill that would rtrict discsn of LGBTQ people the classroom – dropped 3.
”This year’s report herald 88 ci wh a perfect sre of 100, and many of the x's high-srg municipali n be found stat not typilly thought of as beg clive to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer are 11 small ci (ls than 200, 000 rints) red stat (those that haven’t voted for a Democrat for print the 21st Century) that sred at least an 80 on HRC’s Municipal Equaly Inx. -Columbia, MissouriMEI sre: 100, Populatn: 122, 000Downtown Columbia, Hawks / Getty ImagThe Midwtern town is home to the Universy of Missouri and has a btlg nightlife scene wh a multu of gay-iendly spots.
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THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
So go ahead and wave that big, betiful rabow flag—and, jt maybe, zero on a place to buy a great new ’s also the perfect time to pse and regnize that while the Uned Stat has e a long way om the 1969 Stonewall rts, which sparked the morn gay rights movement, 2022 is on track to break the rerd for the number of anti-LGBTQ bills troduced stat across the untry, wh at least 320 highly rtrictive bills pendg state legislatur, acrdg to the rights group Freedom for All, as we do each year, ® searched for the most LGBTQ-iendly and affordable ci for homebuyers. Instead, we set our sights on smaller ci that are gay-iendly and budget-iendly, where hog is still mostly priced and the overall muny and laws are more welg and favorable to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals. There is one gay bar, MB Lounge, and plenty of LGBTQ-iendly events like the Drag Bnch, queer dance parti, and a fashn show or cy’s gay muny is bt known for Worcter Pri, a weeklong grand party thrown by the Queer Coaln of Greater Worcter early September.
And, for those who are lookg for an even bigger gay scene, both Boston and Province, RI, are not far nice thg is, Worcter, buyers won’t be payg Boston pric when lookg for hog. And while home pric have risen lately, they’re still way lower than the natn’s median list price of $447, 000 Rochter, the center of the cy’s gay neighborhood ns along the Park Avenue rridor, where buyers n grab this charmg two-bedroom, one-bathroom abo loted a few blocks off Park Avenue for $180, 000. Portland also abounds wh LGBTQ-iendly sports and recreatn opportuni, cludg the Varsy Gay League, which aniz activi throughout the year such as kickball, soccer, yoga, strength trag, and, y, the ocsnal Mar Kart tournament.
Sacramento, CASacramento, CA(Getty Imag)Median home list price: $515, 000It seems apropos that the ma gayborhood Sacramento is lled Lavenr Heights. Loted roughly 87 om Ameri’s epicenter of gay culture (San Francis), Sacramento has s own fair share of gay-iendly shops, rtrants, bars, and activi that draw a young and active crowd. When homosexualy was illegal and the bar hosted many closeted patrons, gay men ed to intify one another by askg, “Are you a iend of Dorothy?
WHY LGBT PEOPLE ARE MOVG TO RED STATMOVING OUTLGBT PEOPLE ARE LEAVG URBAN, ASTAL HUBS FOR NSERVATIVE CI. SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 09, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTDPE SKEWG DEMOCRAT, LGBT PEOPLE ARE FLOCKG TO RED STAT. IT’S A SIGN THAT CI THE CENTER OF THE UNTRY ARE BEG MORE ACCEPTG, BUT ’S ALSO AN DITN THAT TRADNAL LGBT SAFE HAVENS ARE PROHIBIVELY ANALYZED U.S. CENS DATA AND GALLUP POLLG RMATN TO MOL THE MOVEMENT OF THE LGBT MUNY OM 1990 TO 2014. THE OVERALL TREND IS STRIKG. IN 1990, THE LGBT POPULATN WAS NCENTRATED ASTAL METROPOLAN AREAS AND OTHER SAFE HAVENS—CI LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, AND ATLANTA. BY 2014, LGBT HOT SPOTS CROPPED UP SOME SEEMGLY UNLIKELY PLAC: SALT LAKE CY, LOUISVILLE, NORFOLK, INDIANAPOLIS, AND OTHER RED STATE CI.THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS RANKS EACH CY BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF S RINTS WHO INTIFIED AS LGBT EACH YEAR. IN 1990, FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY 1 PERCENT OF THE SALT LAKE POPULATN INTIFIED AS LGBT, GIVG THE CY A RANKG OF 39. BY 2014, NEARLY 5 PERCENT OF SALT LAKE CY’S POPULATN WAS LGBT AND THE CY WAS RANKED 7TH OVERALL.SEVERAL OF THE CI THAT ROSE THE RANKGS WERE TRADNALLY RED STAT. MEANWHILE, MANY LGBT SAFE HAVENS LIKE MNEAPOLIS, SAN DIEGO, AND NEW YORK FELL THE RANKGS. SAN FRANCIS REMAS THE UNDISPUTED LGBT PAL OF THE UNTRY BUT EVEN THERE, THE LGBT POPULATN FELL BY A FEW TENTHS OF A PERCENT OVER THE LAST AND A HALF. “WHAT YOU’RE REALLY SEEG IS REFLECTIVE OF OTHER NATNAL TRENDS,” SAID CONSUMERAFFAIRS NTENT MANAGER RYAN DALY. “SPECIFILLY, L UP WH PEOPLE—PECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE—CHOOSG LS TO LIVE HUGE, EXPENSIVE CI, WHICH WERE TRADNALLY IENDLIER TOWARD LGBTQ DIVIDUALS, AND CHOOSG STEAD TO MAKE LIV FOR THEMSELV SMALL AND MID-TIER CI THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STAT.”LONGTIME LGBT BASTNS LIKE SEATTLE, LOS ANGEL, NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND D.C. DID TECHNILLY SEE CREAS THE PERCENT OF THE POPULATN THAT INTIFIED AS LGBT. BUT THAT’S TO BE EXPECTED, GIVEN GROWG CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE OUT OF THE CLOSET—ONE RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT 7 PERCENT OF U.S. ADULTS AGED 18 TO 35 WERE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, OR TRANSGENR.BUT THOSE CI AND OTHER METROPOLAN AREAS BLUE STAT FELL THE OVERALL CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKG SPE THE CREAS, WHICH SUGGTS THAT MANY LGBT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSG TO LIVE AFFORDABLE CI STEAD. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’LL STILL FD PLENTY OF GAY PEOPLE NEW YORK BUT MORE YOUNG GAY PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE TREK TO UTAH STEAD. AND THAT MAK SENSE: NEW YORK CY SR A FULL 100 ON THE CONSUMER PRICE INX AND SALT LAKE CY LANDS BELOW 70.“THE DRIVERS FOR THIS MOVEMENT ARE ENOMIC,” SAID DALY. “SMALLER CI HAVE SHORTER MUT, CHEAPER RENT, AND LS PETN FOR GOOD-PAYG JOBS. AND A LOT OF SMALLER CI ARE VTG THE KD OF ASTCTURE (PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN AND AMENI, WALKABILY AND NSY NEAR CY CENTERS) THAT YOUNG PEOPLE VALUE.” BUT THE ENOMIC MOTIVATORS ARE POUND BY A SLOW WAVE OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL CHANGE. IN 2009, SALT LAKE BEME THE FIRST UTAH CY TO PASS LGBT HOG AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTNS. LOUISVILLE, WHICH NOW RANKS 11TH THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS, PASSED A SIAR LAW 1999. THE MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS, WHICH CLIMBED FIVE SPOTS THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS RANKGS, SIGNED AN ORDANCE PROVIDG BENEFS FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS OF CY EMPLOYE 2012.THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN FERAL ACTNS OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS THAT MAY HAVE MA LGBT PEOPLE FEEL SAFER VENTURG TO STAT THAT LACK MORE LOL PROTECTNS. IN 1998, BILL CLTON SIGNED A LIMED EXECUTIVE ORR PROHIBG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE THE FERAL WORKFORCE. IN 2014, PRINT OBAMA BOLSTERED THAT PROTECTN, ADDG GENR INTY AND PROHIBG HIRG DISCRIMATN AS WELL.THAT SAME YEAR, FERAL AND SUPREME COURT ACTNS EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A HUGE SWATH OF RED STAT: ARIZONA, COLORADO, KANSAS, INDIANA, MONTANA, NORTH CAROLA, SOUTH CAROLA, OKLAHOMA, UTAH, VIRGIA, WT VIRGIA, WISNS, AND WYOMG. NOW, OF URSE, IS LEGAL NATNWI.“WH NATNAL LAWS STARTG TO REFLECT THE GROWG SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS, STATE LAWS ARE STARTG TO MATTER LS WHEN TO WHERE LGBTQ DIVIDUALS CHOOSE TO LIVE,” SAID DALY.MANY OF THE SMALLER CI RED STAT ARE STILL FAR OM PERFECT PLAC FOR LGBT PEOPLE TO LIVE. TWENTY-EIGHT STAT LACK ANY LGBT EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS. AND THERE ARE CURRENTLY SEVERAL STATE-LEVEL CHALLENG TO LGBT RIGHTS, PECIALLY TRANSGENR RIGHTS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE NORTH CAROLA STATE ERNMENT IS ATTEMPTG TO OVERTURN AN LGBT NON-DISCRIMATN ORDANCE PASSED LAST MONTH CHARLOTTE, WHICH ROSE OM A RANKG OF 42 TO 33 THE CONSUMERAFFAIRS ANALYSIS.BUT BETWEEN THEIR POCKETBOOKS AND THE LAW BOOKS, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS TO MOVE AWAY OM THE ASTS. SORRY, SAN FRANCIS. SAMANTHA ALLEN
Hartford, CTHartford, CT(Getty Imag)Median home list price: $150, 000Followg on the heels of s neighbor Massachetts, Connecticut was the send state the untry to legalize gay marriage. More than jt the “Insurance Capal of the World, ” Hartford is home to an excg mic, theater, arts, and dg scene, and ’s que the active gay muny.
Bis the n’t-miss Las Vegas Pri celebratn each year October, there are pool parti, dance parti, gay nights on the Strip, and many gay bars. Allentown, PAAllentown, PA(Getty Imag)Median home list price: $250, 000Famo as the lotn for some of the first ristance to Brish Colonialism, Allentown also happens to be home to a large, diverse, and welg gay muny. Overall, the entire Lehigh Valley has many gay-iendly bs that help to promote the area’s diversy, says Chris Troxell, a real tate agent wh Keller Williams Real Estate Allentown.
Though dimutive size, the lively llege town (home to Brown Universy and the Rho Island School of Dign) is home to untls gay bars, a thrivg arts scene, and top-rated rtrants. State pal wh an openly gay mayor, David centerpiece of the cy’s annual Pri celebratn, which n attract up to 100, 000 people, is the famed Illumated Night Para featurg floats, performg artists, and marchg of that, and homebuyers n get their hands on this 1, 200-square-foot, three-bed, one-bath charmer the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Province, listed for $275, 000. Dayton, OHDayton, OH(Getty Imag)Median home list price: $95, 000Dayton is one of a handful of Oh ci that are “leadg the way on LGBTQ cln a difficult state, ” acrdg to the Human Rights Oh don’t have statewi, prehensive laws that prohib discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals, Dayton is among the 35 loli that have enacted protectns agast discrimatn employment, hog, and public also offers an energetic and flourishg gay scene wh a plethora of clubs and nightclubs, an active LGBTQ-targeted outdoor recreatn group, and plenty of arts and cultural Pri is one of the regn’s longt-nng and largt LGBTQ events, a three-day celebratn.