The Gay South Is On The Rise
Jan. 25, 2011
Finally, the stereotype of an urban-dwelling, sexually promiscuous, relationship-avoidant homosexual can be put to rest.
2010 census data has shown that homosexuals are just like everyone else — engaging in monogamy, raising children and building strong families across the United States.
The findings contradict some of the most deeply ingrained stereotypes Americans have about the “homosexual lifestyle,” but the data helps to bring this way of life into legitimacy. The same-sex culture can no longer be thought of as an anomaly that can only be found on the West Coast and in New England because now there is evidence that it’s happening everywhere.
Demographers out of the University of California-Los Angeles have found that same-sex couples in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are more likely to raise families than same-sex couples on either coast. This means that families with parents of the same sex are becoming ingrained in the fabric of communities that historically have shunned change.
It appears, one could argue, that the South is rising again, but it is trading its religious rhetoric for diaper bags instead. The area with the highest rate of same-sex couples raising families? Jacksonville, Fla.
This is a dynamic shift that reaches across all demographics. In fact, same-sex couples who are of African-American or Latino heritage are twice as likely to be raising children as their white counterparts. They are also more likely to be struggling economically, another contradictory finding to the stereotype of the affluent, white gay.
Truly, homosexuality is a part of the human condition, not a niche behavior as some may think.
The census data proves that gay men tend to have children in a heterosexual relationship about three years before straight men procreate. When gay men leave these marriages to begin a same-sex relationship, they continue to raise and care for their children. This situation has played out particularly often in the South, where homosexuals are often bullied by their community’s expectations to engage in normative marriages before breaking free and claiming love for their own.
What is most notable about this data is that it shows homosexuality has become entrenched in American culture. It is not an anomaly, but instead a natural tendency that has been repressed by conservatives and churches throughout the centuries.
As more gays come out, representing all ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses, the rest of America will begin to see that the diversity of the homosexual culture is strikingly similar to that of this country.
Jan. 25, 2011
Finally, the stereotype of an urban-dwelling, sexually promiscuous, relationship-avoidant homosexual can be put to rest.
2010 census data has shown that homosexuals are just like everyone else — engaging in monogamy, raising children and building strong families across the United States.
The findings contradict some of the most deeply ingrained stereotypes Americans have about the “homosexual lifestyle,” but the data helps to bring this way of life into legitimacy. The same-sex culture can no longer be thought of as an anomaly that can only be found on the West Coast and in New England because now there is evidence that it’s happening everywhere.
Demographers out of the University of California-Los Angeles have found that same-sex couples in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are more likely to raise families than same-sex couples on either coast. This means that families with parents of the same sex are becoming ingrained in the fabric of communities that historically have shunned change.
It appears, one could argue, that the South is rising again, but it is trading its religious rhetoric for diaper bags instead. The area with the highest rate of same-sex couples raising families? Jacksonville, Fla.
This is a dynamic shift that reaches across all demographics. In fact, same-sex couples who are of African-American or Latino heritage are twice as likely to be raising children as their white counterparts. They are also more likely to be struggling economically, another contradictory finding to the stereotype of the affluent, white gay.
Truly, homosexuality is a part of the human condition, not a niche behavior as some may think.
The census data proves that gay men tend to have children in a heterosexual relationship about three years before straight men procreate. When gay men leave these marriages to begin a same-sex relationship, they continue to raise and care for their children. This situation has played out particularly often in the South, where homosexuals are often bullied by their community’s expectations to engage in normative marriages before breaking free and claiming love for their own.
What is most notable about this data is that it shows homosexuality has become entrenched in American culture. It is not an anomaly, but instead a natural tendency that has been repressed by conservatives and churches throughout the centuries.
As more gays come out, representing all ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses, the rest of America will begin to see that the diversity of the homosexual culture is strikingly similar to that of this country.
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Who'd a thunkit? Just as I always suspected, the data reveals that
Who'd a thunkit? Just as I always suspected, the data reveals that
we're just like everybody else.
"Fear Eats the Soul"
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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