These conditions gradually built momentum towards the LGBTQ movement many people are familiar with today. Although these candid portrayals of homosexual activity are outdated, they ultimately put San Francisco on the map. One might be tempted to think that the stars aligned for San Francisco; that the city was predisposed to liberation.
That is not the case at all. What made San Francisco gay? There ends up being people like myself who are older, more settled and perfectly content to live here. Ken Yeager , who as a Santa Clara County supervisor is the first openly gay elected official in the county, said he was among those polled.
He suggested there may have been some awkwardness with the questions themselves — an unease that could vary by geography. Alabama, home to Birmingham, has made news lately as its state Supreme Court has resisted implementation of a federal court order to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Among the ranked MSAs, Pittsburgh has the highest proportion of seniors in the population. Gallup research has shown that LGBT identity tends to be lower among seniors. San Jose may be the most surprising metro area to be among the 10 lowest, because it is home to the Silicon Valley and many technology companies that have been among the most vocal supporters of LGBT rights in corporate America. For example, Apple, Google and Facebook all recently signed a friend-of-the-court brief submitted to the U.
Supreme Court, supporting legalizing marriage for same-sex couples. This mirrors previous analyses of the distribution of the LGBT population across states , which show similarly fairly even distribution, at least in comparison to the many other pronounced geographic differences found on race, ethnic, political and ideological variables.
The lack of sharp distinctions could reflect in part that the geographic MSAs used in this research are large, and for most areas, include significant suburban populations around center cities. The sample sizes involved do not allow for an analysis of center cities per se, but perhaps the LGBT percentage is larger in these areas than in the metropolitan area as a whole. At the same time, the variation across MSAs does provide interesting information about LGBT identification and its possible relationship to the ideological and legal climate in different metropolitan regions.
Certainly, a metropolitan area such as San Francisco has a different history and culture relating to the LGBT population than does Birmingham, and those differences appear in LGBT identification among the areas' residents. Judges in Alabama recently made news for refusing to allow same-sex couples to marry despite a federal court order.
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