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Is the World Finer for Gay People Than It Was 10 Years Ago?
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- 50% of world's adults say local area good for gay people, a new high
- Massive increases since 2011 in Nepal and India
- Nicaragua and Paraguay less likely to be perceived as excellent for gay people
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Half of the world's adults (50%) now say their urban area or area is a "good place" for gay or lesbian people to live -- a figure that has doubled over the past decade and represents a fresh high in Gallup World Poll's trend dating back to 2005.
The latest figure, based on surveys in 110 countries and areas in 2021, reaffirms several other global studies that show acceptance appears to be growing across the world. But the data also disclose a significant remaining divide. About four in 10 people worldwide say their area is "not a good place" for gay and lesbian people, while 12% do not know.
When the Gallup World Poll first asked this scrutinize in 2005, about one in five people across the world (21%) described their city or area as a good place for gay people to live. Between 2014 and 2019, this figure had grown to roughly one in three adults, ranging from 31% to
"Better Gay than Grumpy"
"My Unicorn is a Lesbian. Is Yours?"
"I'm Straight. But not Narrow"
The National Museum of American History recently received more than 400 buttons representing a snapshot of LGBT visual and textual culture spanning three decades from the 1970s through the 1990s. I helped Curator Katherine Ott coordinate the buttons into categories in order to enhanced understand the scope and depth of the collection. In the process of cataloging and documenting the buttons' words and images, I was continually amazed by their diversity. There were protest buttons, buttons from marches and lgbtq+ fest parades, buttons for gay-friendly destinations and businesses, and buttons to raise consciousness around ballot initiatives, the AIDS crisis, and boycott movements. But to me, the most interesting buttons (and certainly one of the largest categories) centered on humor, puns, and a certain tongue-in-cheek positive statement of what scholars categorize as "queer culture."
The operate of humor, double entendre, and secret language is a well-documented aspect of queer culture and LGBT history. Often forced to speak in code or to use phrases with more than one interpretation, gays and lesbians living befo
What is the best queer dating app?
Introduction
“Here goes nothing”, I think to myself as I once again find myself downloading the ever-daunting dating LGBTQIA+ apps that will either be a source of unrivaled happiness or spiraling doom. Dating is undeniably terrifying. The whole concept of meeting strangers and creature vulnerable with them in the hopes that something comes out of that interaction, be that something a hook-up, a small or long term association or maybe just even a friendship, is overwhelmingly bizarre. But the potential of that “something” maybe happening is in and of itself a truly beautiful experience.
I constantly joke around with close friends that I am ready for a relationship. I crave the emotional and physical intimacy that comes with one. My friends, being my most violent advisors, always say the same thing, “Derek saying you want a partnership is worthless if you don’t put yourself out there. In order to find a relationship, you need to well, date.” And running the exposure of inflating my friends’ egos, they’re right. The only way to come across someone, is by going out to the battlefield we call a “dating pool” (my body convulsed a bit just thinking abou
Better Gay Than Grumpy Button | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Better Queer Than Grumpy Button | Wisconsin Historical Society
Button, Enhanced Gay Than Grumpy, c. 1980
Source: Wisconsin Historical Museum objectWisconsin Historical Museum objectWisconsin Historical Museum Object 1984.242.62
"Better Same-sex attracted Than Grumpy" pinback button, c. 1980
(Museum object 1984.242.62)
“Gay” became an adjective of pride for homosexual men starting in the 1960s. In fact, according to the media advocacy community GLAAD, the terms same-sex attracted and lesbian are now the appropriate descriptors for sexual orientation, while the noun “homosexual,” with its connotations of medicalized deviancy, is considered derogatory and offensive.
In the 13th century, the word “gay” meant "carefree," "cheerful," or "bright and showy.” Other meanings, like “frivolous” and “hedonistic” accrued through time, and by the 1700s the word had acquired sexual connotations. Brothels were called “gayhouses,” and female prostitutes were sometimes described