Gallup: D.C. Residents Most Likely To Identify As LGBT
Source: TPM
DAVID TAINTOR 4:44 PM EST, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2013
Residents of Washington, D.C. are the most likely to identify as LGBT, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. Ten percent of D.C. residents said they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. North Dakota had the lowest percentage, with 1.7 percent of residents identifying as LGBT, according to the poll. The nationwide average is 3.5 percent.
See the full results here:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160517/lgbt-percentage-highest-lowest-north-dakota.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication
Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gallup-dc-residents-most-likely-to-identify-as
truthisfreedom
(23,159 posts)I woulda thunk SF would be a good bet.
goclark
(30,404 posts)as well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castro,_San_Francisco
Either way, it doesn't matter what your choice is -- I have friends black/white/Chinese/ etc. and "straight "..... which is a term I don't like because that implies ( in my view) that the opposite is " Crooked."
Don't like " Gay" because that implies that the opposite is " Unhappy."
What is the appropriate term to use in 2013?
Thanks a lot!
Igel
(35,374 posts)"Bent" is the appropriate antonym. Works best in British English.
"Straight" vs. "gay" is more or less "conventional" versus "unconventional", often in the sense "libertine " or "promiscuous." So all sorts of places reference a "gay house" as a perfectly straight whorehouse. A bachelor could be perfectly gay and straight without being bi.
I personally think that this use of "straight" started off as "strait," as in "strait and narrow" (usually today misparsed as "straight and narrow, thus missing out on the the nice folksy device of repetition, like "broad and wide" .
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)If you find anyone LGBT using it, it's one of those "reclaim the insults" attempts.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)xilify
(17 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)We're talking a percentage point or two difference on most these margins and that isn't significant enough to make heads or tails either way.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)Lived in Georgetown and worked in D.C. Concur.
lmsp
elleng
(131,202 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)from her DC art school.
He would have been apoplectic, had he known they were married and gay...
The times, they are a changing....
goclark
(30,404 posts)What do other polls say?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Remember, their polls had Romney winning.
goclark
(30,404 posts)It turned out with all the polling and beating the drums for Rmoney --- they were wrong!
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)when they were in their Important Planning Meetings.
The campaign certainly proved " Money Can't Always By You A Winner----
SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)those LV models were over esitmating the percentage of white voters by six points and it underestimated the of 18-29 turnout In contrast the RV poll which was pretty much just a straight up poll was pretty much spot on