February 2025 is antiquated numbers. The amount of fascist radicalisation which has been happening this 1½ years since then has been considerable.
What direction do you think that would move these numbers?
Way the fuck down. Especially in the poor states where all the illiterate people live.
Interesting but not beautiful. No labels for the state names, even Americans don’t know the geography that well. The smaller states need numbers with lines. Maryland and D.C. overlap and Delaware has no number.
You should take it up with the original poster not the repost bot.
Ohhh nooo, someone’s helping to populate the fediverse with more content so that it’s not exclusively found on reddit! The humanity!
Sounds like the bot needs to die.
I wonder how the results changed if the question was put a different way. Even I struggle to answer this a bit. I don’t think society should “accept” my homosexuality. There’s plenty things I don’t “accept” either but I just stay out of it then. No need to like it - just don’t be a jerk and let me live my life. I don’t need your validation.
I mean good for you, but as a fellow homosexual, I demand acceptance.
Tolerance is a pathetically low bar. We deserve equality and respect.
Respect is not deserved but earned on a individual basis for demonstrating good character. It has nothing to do with your sexuality.
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority
Wouldn’t the opposite of acceptance imply eradication?
Perhaps to some but one does not automatically follow from the other. There are additional steps to be taken in between to get from not-liking to wanting it destroyed.
In my experience most people don’t have an issue with gays existing. The issue is with forcibly shoving that acceptance down their throats.
The issue is with forcibly shoving that acceptance down their throats.
Eww, you sound like a maga
just don’t be a jerk and let me live my life
That’s literally acceptance…
Congratulations ! You’ve been brainwashed.
It sounds more like they’re conflating “acceptance” with “tolerance”, which isn’t the same thing.
I’m curious, what about that persons response makes you feel they’re brainwashed?
The fact that they find normal that their homosexuality isn’t accepted.
So… Your brain is dirty?
Those are some pretty low numbers
Seriously! I thought this was an old jpg getting recycled until I zoomed in on the bottom 😬
Zooming in on the bottom is also how to be gay 🌈
You either zoom in on the bottom or become it
The penis is at 65, low but high in context.
I am from here and Florida, at least in the cities, is queer as fuck. I hung out in gay bars as a teenager, because they were safe spaces for all sorts. We used to have a very big gay film festival in St Pete, our mayor in Tampa is a lesbian. I have no idea who that 45% is.
Now overlay the map of states where the most gay porn is consumed. All the anti gay states will be the top consumers.
I grew up in Connecticut which is largely an irrelevant state, but whenever I see maps like this Connecticut ends up being close to the top which makes me feel good.
I always thought it was interesting how the one thing MAGA hasn’t been frothing at the mouth to reverse is gay marriage, it’s really crazy how fast the opinion changed once it became legal nationwide and the sky didn’t fall.
Conservatives (fascists) always need a minority to persecute because their ideology is based on hate. Gay people ended up getting enough support across the board, after decades of effort, that conservatives (fascists) had to swap to targeting trans individuals instead to keep feeding the hate machine.
Wish I was exagerrating but that’s literally what happened. Same thing happened with black people. They ended up getting enough support, after a Herculian effort, that conservatives swapped to targeting gay people.
Conservatives (fascists) are truly awful human beings.
I grew up with Christian nationalists, and I can assure you, MAGA always has their eye on gay marriage.
They just know they don’t have the power at the moment, as their voter base has significantly eroded and some of the more normie republicans in the federal government can see that the Trump regime isn’t quite as inevitable as they thought it was almost two years ago.
They’ll get to them after they finish with the trans people.
Oh, they’re frothing about it. It’s just that they know they’ll get shouted down about it. So they plan to go after trans people first.
Marriage is at its core property law that promotes social stability and commitment to a status quo. If you’re gay but willing to pay a mortgage, raise a kid, and keep number going up they’re happy to have you for the moment. I don’t see it as a prize to be won but as a culture war touchpoint that has served its purpose and an option for those with previously subversive lifestyles to give up/buy in.
It’s not as appealing or accessible of an option as it once was, and I don’t think they can afford to be as picky as they might like. If we get to a point where the Department of Family needs your home for a couple with more traditional values it’ll be another story, but I imagine religion, race, and political affiliation (in roughly that order) will be greater risk factors than sexuality. As is, getting married at all is a clear enough signal of alignment to be left alone
Fuck Arkansas, other than Eureka Springs
My partner has family in Arkansas and I’ve seen more of it than I’d like, but Eureka Springs was delightful. Honestly never ran into anyone else who knows about it though!
It’s a wonderful reprieve if you’re driving through the area!
This should be overlapped with Pornhub’s viewing data per state for a good laugh.
trans, and gayporn consumption. is likely higher in the sexually repressed states.
I’m ashamed that WA isn’t higher. I don’t know why we put up with the half of the state east of the mountains, they’re just our cross to bear.
We all have our deplorable area. For California, it’s the central valley and a lot of the northern part of the state.
Former Oregonian here. Same about eastern Oregon.
Well aware. There are towns out there that gave me severe bad vibes. I was rolling through Chemult one time while camping. No place has ever given me such an urgent desire to quickly leave.
I remember passing Chemult on my many train rides down to California. Beautiful landscapes. Sucks that it’s full of horrible humans, though.
It feels like the start of a Hitchcock film
If it wasn’t for Spokane you could give the whole eastern half to Idaho. (Except don’t, don’t give them more electors!)
As soon as I saw this, I thought that we need to see this broken down by sides of the state and see how evenly different regions were included, especially for Washington and Oregon.
For cultural stats like this Oregon and Washington should be split vertically instead of horizontally, would give a much more accurate indication of the region
Why should we turn 100% of our farmland into Republican states?
It’s a little weird to suppose I was serious, don’t you think?
The man in white underwear and a blue hat lol
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I gotta visit Vermont. Gayer than California and hella good cheese? Let’s go!
Oh! Oh! Now corelate the data against average household income!
A map for you sir/madam/all else
I used slightly more recent median household income for a correlation of 71%
Well gawrsh, looks like it pays to be cool with the gays!
Or that comfort makes you tolerant. This would explain Florida’s position of being relatively gay for how poor it is: mostly beach, pretty chill. Less need for a scapegoat I guess ;)
Well, there’s also a lot of pockets of low low income earners that throw off the average in a few states. Nevada has a ton of people that live in the middle of the desert on nothing but meth and fentanyl, but Vegas and Reno are obviously super tolerant. Florida would be the similar, I imagine.
But yeah, so comfort might be a real factor here.
