Comments on: Geography of Tolerance

By: mike

mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:03:22 +0000

was shocked to see Tennessee Texas and Alabama having ANY gay tolerance at all.

By: F Young

F Young — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:57:57 +0000

I also find it interesting that the much talked about North-South dichotomy is only really true on the West Coast, and to a much lesser extent on the East Coast.

For the fly-over country, the dichotomy is Eastern-Western, with the Eastern half more tolerant than the Western half.

Another way of looking at the fly-over country (and arguably the entire country) is to separate out college towns and big cities from everything else.

By: Lucrece

Lucrece — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:01:25 +0000

Miami is not uniform. African American neighborhoods (and Downtown before it has started to be gentrified) was a no-go zone for gay men, especially at night.

Also, immigrants from certain Latin American countries, like my country from Venezuela, actually add to the share of intolerance — homophobia is very widespread in said cultures. Just because Argentina legalized same-sex marriage does not mean it’s popular among Argentinians.

Go to Hialeah, and you’ll hear “faggot” way earlier before getting a greeting of any kind.

Then go North from Miami, and you got the scariest places of the bunch with rednecks that despise both gay people and Hispanics. You don’t know redneck until you meet the Floridian ones.

By: F Young

F Young — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:21:33 +0000

Though I had heard about how many LGBs live there, I was still surprised by how tolerant Atlanta, Boulder, Dallas, Miami, Orlando and Phoenix are, given the states where they are located.

I guess big metropolitan areas are entities in their right, and have more in common with each other than with the states in which they are officially located.

I was also rather surprised that New York City got beat by Washington DC and nearly all of Mass.