homophobia and demography USA

I'm not sure what you're asking for. Do you want my personal experience. Is this for a study that you're doing?

 

Um, okay. I live in Montana, which is a conservative state inhabited by mostly white Protestants. The official language is English, and the legislature is stone cold fuck nuts.

While I'm not afraid for my life, I don't feel safe to be out to just anyone. There is a gay scene here, but it's pretty small. I'd say it's moderately homophobic, but most of that is political. I am not aware of any well-publicized anti-queer violence. There is still a lot of harassment of queer students in public school.

 

here's Support for Same-Sex Marriage, State by State: i'm surprised my state isn't higher





Support for Same-Sex Marriage, State by State - Graphic - NYTimes.com

 

Here's a visual version of those numbers...basically the Northeast and West Coast are the most LGBTQ-friendly regions of the country.

Obviously, it's a bit deeper than that...generally urban areas are much more open and accepting than rural areas, e.g. Chicago, Illinois has less homophobia than parts of rural California, even though CA has more support statewide. States like Pennsylvania and Colorado are very polarized between the progressive urban areas and extremely conservative rural areas.

Support for marriage equality by state:

 

I live in north-central Kansas, right next to Nebraska. AKA my personal hell. Everyone is overly religious, to the point where it's taught in the public schools around here. Wikipedia says that my county is "98.79 white, with 0.34% Native American, 0.05% Asian, 0.03% Black or African American, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.05% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.71% of the population."

In the school in this county, there are no openly gay students. None. And to my knowledge, there have not been any openly gay students that have ever attended my school. The teachers are even openly against homosexuality. Also, since my community is mainly farming and agriculturally based, there isn't much tolerance of gay people and there is very blatant discrimination, prejudice, and ostracism.

 

As much as religion is usually the catalyst for homophobia (and every other human evil), I think we just have to accept that some people are just wired to hate others.

Studies like this are only estimation, and not accurate. I think you get more honest answers regarding how people feel about homosexuals online (like when you read comments on gay youtube videos), because it is anonymous.

Kansas is known as a 'fly over' state right?