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Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• MOVG TO LGBT SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
• SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• UCLA STUDY SHOWS DECREASE IN SAN DIEGO GAY POPULATN

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

MOVG TO LGBT SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. Yet spe dranian laws that threatened to sweep up anyone hapls enough to be ught a homosexual act, same-sex love flourished San Diego, even the cy’s hight social circl.

Protected by their soc-enomic stat om dishonor and prosecutn, upper class upl such as Lee and Teats or Shepard and Tonner did not suffer om stigma or the punishg laws wh which ls fortunate homosexuals of their day had to ntend.

Gay historian Allan Bébé has famoly suggted that Ameri’s war effort also served to brg together many gays and lbians who had hherto been isolated small towns and ci all across Ameri, and a signifint subculture was th on s way to beg formed.

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

For stance, gay bars such as Bradley’s and Blue Jacket the Gaslamp District proliferated durg the war years; locker clubs such as the Seven Seas Locker Club and Jack’s Steam and Locker Club beme not only facili where ary men uld change to civvi before a night on the town but also cisg grounds where those who were gay found sexual opportuni. Many gays and lbians who had been troduced to port ci such as San Diego durg the war chose to settle them after the war bee they had learned they uld feel eer there than they had back home. ” Lee and Mortimer tend their fulmatns to shock and tillate, but surely a llateral effect was to rm even more gay people of San Diego’s thrivg gay life and to draw them to the cy.

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) was rmed too—and bee homosexuals were prumptive crimals unr state and lol laws, the SDPD went to great lengths to hunt gay men down, even stakg out the streets where gays were known to cise.

SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL

The SDPD felt jtified crimalizg them bee an era when no distctn was ma between sexual orientatn and genr inty, was assumed that all trans people, ipso facto, mted illegal homosexual sex acts. Ed Hansen, a closeted mister at San Diego’s Chollas View Methodist Church, who had recently pleted an ternship at San Francis’s ultra-liberal Gli Memorial Methodist Church, started San Diego’s first anized gay group, “Dghters and Sons of Society.

” The group offered much-need emotnal support to the muny, but as s ntral name suggts, members sentially kept who they were a secret, which meant that they uld have ltle impact fightg discrimatory laws and homophobic prejudice.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

But at the start of that summer, an event at a gay bar New York triggered a transformatn the way gay people everywhere would view themselv and their right to eedom and equaly.

But stead of gog quietly to the paddy wagon as gay people had almost always done when arrted police raids, the patrons, fluenced by the many dramatic protts of that , fought back and sparked four nights of rts.

UCLA STUDY SHOWS DECREASE IN SAN DIEGO GAY POPULATN

” A week after the rts, a group of young radils New York found the Gay Liberatn Front, named to evoke the munist Natnal Liberatn Front of Vietnam, an anizatn admired by many young Amerin leftists. ) In the sprg of 1971, thanks to promotn by the GLF, the San Diego State Experimental College—tablished to perm stunts to explore non-nventnal studi–offered one of the first gay studi urs the untry, “The Homosexual and Society.

Word of GLF reached Chancellor Glenn Dumke, the head of the California State College system, who rmed San Diego State’s print, Mallm Love, that no group lled “Gay” may be associated wh a California State College mp. Print Love, not unsympathetic to GLF, told the group’s learship that he would ntue to approve their stat as a mp anizatn if they would only excise the word “Gay” om their name.

On November 28, 1971, they staged San Diego’s first gay prott: about fifteen GLF members marched ont of the San Diego Police Headquarters rryg signs that mand an end to harassment and mockgly clared “10% of You Are US” (a reference to the Ksey statistic that revealed that one-tenth of Amerins were practicg homosexuals at any given time). GLF activist Js Jsop announced to all the lol news media that would listen (KOGO TV, KFMB, and The San Diego Unn were there), “We are standg together to meet this problem [of police harassment] and will ntue to do so ever creasg numbers until all policemen learn that gay people are no longer easy targets for their sadism. Simply beg openly gay was radil and therefore reason for the FBI to keep an eye on GLF, but the FBI had a further exce too: their vtigatn of Gay Liberatn Front groups, cludg the one San Diego, was tensified bee the FBI feared that gay radils would dispt the 1972 Democratic Natnal Conventn Miami by vadg the nventn hall and mandg civil rights for homosexuals.