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Eugene

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Thu Apr 4, 2019, 02:26 PM Apr 2019

Nearly 4 million LGBTQ people live in rural America, and 'everything is not bias and awful'

Source: USA Today

Nearly 4 million LGBTQ people live in rural America, and 'everything is not bias and awful'

Susan Miller, USA TODAY Published 7:00 a.m. ET April 3, 2019 | Updated 4:36 p.m. ET April 3, 2019

Pop culture often paints LGBTQ people living in rural areas as outsiders eager to bolt for more dazzling and diverse hubs such as New York or San Francisco.

A report out Wednesday upends that assumption: 2.9 million to 3.8 million in the LGBTQ community call rural America home, data shows – and, for many, that’s exactly where they want to be.

The report by the Movement Advancement Project puts a spotlight for the first time on a sizable segment of the 19 million LGBTQ people in the USA – or 4.5% of all adults and 10% of youths – who don’t congregate on the coasts or in major cities.

“Rarely do we see images of LGBTQ people in rural areas, and when we do, they are portrayed as the only one there and stick out like a sore thumb or a target of violence,” said Logan Casey, author of the report by MAP, a think tank that researches LGBTQ issues. “It’s a stereotype that’s not the case.”

LGBTQ people want to live in the country for the same reasons others do, MAP Executive Director Ineke Mushovic said, whether it’s a connection to the land, family roots or the sheer allure of pastoral life.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/03/lgbtq-lesbian-gay-transgender-rural-america/3282217002/
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Nearly 4 million LGBTQ people live in rural America, and 'everything is not bias and awful' (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP
Great story, Wellstone ruled Apr 2019 #1
Glad to see this. I have watched it myself. DURHAM D Apr 2019 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Great story,
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 02:55 PM
Apr 2019

a fact that I have been aware of for decades. My best and absolutely best clients were always Business's owned and operated by the Guys and Gals of the LGBT Community my Rural Sales Area's.

DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
2. Glad to see this. I have watched it myself.
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 03:20 PM
Apr 2019

jftr - They are very politically active. They show up at events, write the checks, work at the voting locations and run the phone banks.

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