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LGBT people in the South continue to face obstacles at higher rates than the rest of the country. Yet LGBT Southerners are resilient and persist to thrive.
For first-hand accounts of organism LGBT Southerners, inspect out the first short documentary series, GLAAD Presents: Articulate of Change below. Check back for additional videos in the six-part series. More are on the way:
Consider this:
- Across the board, people in the South showed more discomfort with LGBT people than those in the U.S. overall. Many of the responses demonstrated discomfort levels at 5 to 6 points higher in the South than in the country as a whole.
- 40% of respondents in the South listed discomfort with attending a same-sex couple's wedding. It jumped to 50% discomfort when bringing a minor to the identical wedding.
- Levels of discomfort concerning issues connected to transgender people were highest, both in the South and with the general U.S. population.
Nondiscrimination:
There are no statewide protections for employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender culture. However, s
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS data for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining BRFSS data, we estimate that % of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost million (13,,) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the Merged States,more LGBT adults reside in the South than in any other region. More than half (%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (%) and South (%), including million in the Midwest and million in the South. About one-quarter (%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately million people. Less than one in five (%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast ( million).
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Queer Midtown: How Atlanta Became an Epicenter of Gay Life
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Published: 04/06/23
BY JASON ARNOLD
Atlanta has long held the nickname of the gay epicenter of the South, due to so many members of the Queer community from small towns in neighboring states moving to Atlanta to find their place among their kindred spirits. For decades, queer people flocked to Midtown for weekend jaunts to some of the South’s most famous bars, (Backstreet, anyone?) and Identity festival festivities, first in June to and later when the events were moved to October to coincide with “National Coming Out Day.” Midtown and Atlanta were synonymous with being gay, and though the community is more spread out over the metro area today, Midtown, with its iconic rainbow crosswalk, is still regarded as the center of gay Atlanta.
Atlanta Had Its Have Stonewall
Long before the pride festivals, bars and restaurants, the first recorded instance of what we would consider Atlanta’s gay history goes all the way endorse to the “Cotton States and International Exposition of ,” with th
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