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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:19 PM Feb 2017

Can you name the place with the highest percentage of LGBTQ people in America?

After an election year in which pollsters took a heavy hit for credibility and accuracy, or lack thereof, the never-say-die folks at Gallup have come out with a new poll that claims the highest population of self-identifying lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender Americans, by percentage, can be found in Washington, D.C.

That’s right, President Donald Trump now lives in the gayest place in America.

According to the Gallup survey, 8.6 percent of people in the District of Columbia identify as LGBT (they didn’t use the Q for queer or questioning in its survey), more than all of the 50 states, and even the territories.



Vermont won the honor of being the top state with the highest self-identifying population, at 5.3 percent. California, Massachusetts and Oregon tied for third place with 4.9 percent and Nevada was a close 4th with 4.8 percent. Right behind is Delaware, with a very close 4.7 percent. And bringing up the rear, or should we say bottom, is South Dakota with a measly two percent.

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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/02/can-name-place-highest-percentage-lgbtq-people-america/

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Can you name the place with the highest percentage of LGBTQ people in America? (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
Either liberal or libertarian leaning places have the most. Dawson Leery Feb 2017 #1
Des Moines, Iowa? FSogol Feb 2017 #2
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Louisville, Kentucky has the fifth-largest LGBTQ Aristus Feb 2017 #3
You mean it's not Oklahoma?! Behind the Aegis Feb 2017 #4
STOP IT, YER KILLING ME Skittles Feb 2017 #5

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
1. Either liberal or libertarian leaning places have the most.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:22 PM
Feb 2017

This is to be expected. Imagine being LGBT in some hick town?

Aristus

(66,289 posts)
3. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Louisville, Kentucky has the fifth-largest LGBTQ
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 04:29 PM
Feb 2017

community in the country.

Having experienced Louisville's thriving, exciting St. Matthew's district first-hand, I'd have to say that doesn't surprise me. With Kentucky being light green, I have to assume that every LGBTQ person in the state sooner or later gravitates to Louisville.

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
4. You mean it's not Oklahoma?!
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 04:38 PM
Feb 2017

I could have sworn I was living in the gayest place ever!

Oh wait, I am thinking of my own home.

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