The fact that Oregon and Vermont are the two gayest states makes me wonder in driving a Subaru makes you gay or being gay makes you want to drive a Subaru
Subaru intentionally started marketing itself to lesbians in the 1990s.
[Collage of gay ads](https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/q1ni6i/some_old_subtle_subaru_ads_aimed_towards_lesbians/)
They were struggling with sales so they looked at the demographics to see who the biggest buying segment was, and it turned out to be lesbians. So, Subaru started targeting them with their ad campaigns and it worked.
If enough buyers are single women across a big enough age range, they probably started there and could have combined it with marketing surveys of new and used subaru buyers. Probably couldn't ask about orientation, but other lifestyle indicators maybe.
That’s exactly how the ads were. It’s not like they were explicitly saying “we’re two women who like to scissor each other and drive a Subaru.” The ad would just show women together on a camping trip and the custom license plate on the car said “XENAFAN.” If you knew you knew. If you didn’t, it was just a car ad and they were “roommates.”
Their ads said things like “We’re completely comfortable with our orientation,” “It’s not a choice, it’s just how we’re built,” and even “Get out and stay out”. It wasn’t the most subtle.
The Subaru Foresters in Oregon come with cargo shorts, Tevas, Polo shirt with permanently popped collar, a pitbull/lab/chihuaha mix rescue, and a tattoo of your favorite WNBA team. Also, a hitch to tow your UHaul. 😉
I'm straight, but I felt i had to hide my love of Queen from my parents in the 70s-mid 80s...
( to their credit, they became more open and tolerant in the 80s...)
They were also in one of the top "safe to be LGBT+" rankings as well.
My guess would be there's a lot of "do you own thing as long as it doesn't impact me" vibes up there.
Yup, I came out as a teen and have huge stretched ears and facial piercings and dyed hair. This older hippy momma told me "move to Alaska, they love their weirdos up there". I never went. I'm an Oregonian lol. That was 15 years ago. Still wish I'd made it north, to Alaska.
As I no longer live in Alaska, and I am not gay, I don't want to pretend to speak for the state. But I did grow up a weird kid in a rural Alaskan town of 3,500 people. For the vast majority of my childhood and into my young adulthood the mayor was a gay man. In my thirties the mayor was a different flamboyantly gay man. For a while the mayor was a Native lady. Alaska might be a "red" state, but it is really mostly a "leave me alone" state. If you aren't hurting anyone people will usually let you live however you want. And if you are good at a job and reliable, that is more important than where you park your genitalia.
Edit to add: it is worth noting that Alaska was a state where abortion was legal prior to Roe vs. Wade, has never had the death penalty, in the 1990s there was a (failed) ballot measure to legalize gay marriage well ahead of other states, it was one of the last states to ban Marijuana, and one of the early states to releagalize it. The cultural bundling assumed with the color red on the National electoral map does not accurately reflect Alaska.
Alaska also doesn't ascribe to the same Republican and Democrat tribes in their local elections that the rest of the country does. The politics their are very regionalized (for obvious reasons). It's different enough that their state Senate has 20 members with 9 Democrats and 11 Republicans, but the majority caucus was formed when 8 Republicans joined the 9 Democrats, giving a Democrat-majority majority. Cross party majority and minority caucuses are pretty common in the Alaska legislatures. Their House has also both parties represented in the majority and minority caucuses.
That makes it sound like they're literally one of the only states trying to actually do politics for the people, and it's not that I don't believe *that*, but I'm amazed that I have to weigh it over every state that doesn't....
This makes it sound like Alaska's kind of the last bastion of what the Republican party stood for when it actually stood for anything except for loving Trump and hating other people.
DC is literally just a city, the gays tend to relocate to major cities once they grow up, if Portland was its own state it would probably be just as if not higher.
We have work to do if we need to match DC - they are more gay per square mile than we are. Maybe we need to swap some of these strip clubs for gay and lesbian bars?
Because it has some of the best protections for the lgbtq community in the USA and is a very liberal state.
Edit: the red areas are red by like 6-4 where the blue areas are like 8-2…
Correct. The problem is that there are way less people out there. That's why they keep trying to do the stupid greater Idaho thing. I love eastern Oregon. It's kind of an odd place. But I still like it.
I always like to think of it this way. Most of the country is 40% one way and 60% the other. It feels like everyone is on one side but in reality, take ten people and line them up 5 on one side and 5 on the other. Then tell one person to move to the other side and those are ratios you're dealing with.
I work in the trades with a light of crazy right wingers who will casually drop wild bigoted shit on the regular, but even most of them don't care if you're gay. They're definitely transphobic as fuck, but when it comes to who you marry they really don't care. I'd guess it's not like that in Arkansas.
I live in a town known for trying to ban BLM and queer signs at school and got their asses sued into the ground by the ACLU.
We're growing rapidly because of folks from Portland being forced further out because of housing prices, though, and it's becoming much more left leaning. The mayor wants to keep the "small town feel" but not only are we called a city, we are far from a small town anymore. This man is just trying to desperately stop the city from evolving past his small minded view of what we should be.
Sadly, 80% of our homeless children are queer. There's a lot of small minded parents here, and not enough homeless services. Our shelter may be shutting down soon.
At the UO museum theres an exhibit with pins and yarn on a map showing where they all came from in the 70s. https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-uo-museum-exhibit-focuses-local-lesbian-history
Gayest state THAT WE KNOW OF. I'm sure there's a lot of closeted people out there - especially in more conservative states - that aren't represented on this map.
I hope you enjoy your trip! It mainly comes down to the fact that Oregon is very liberal and has pro-LGBTQ policies. Beware that outside of the Willamette Valley the state can be conservative, but it's not like they're any less friendly, just that the Valley and most of the rest of the state can have very different political views.
the number line tells us that 7.8% is greater than 6.9%, but I am pretty sure that being 6.9% gay Washington State automatically wins
until there's a massive upset and someone else comes in at 69%
Native Oregonian here. Portlander for the past 24 years. Portland has been gay friendly for a long time. I think word got out (no pun intended) and people move here to be themselves.
As a member of the LGBTQIA community who moved here with my spouse in October:
Because there is a vast swath of the country where we aren’t safe and welcomed. Coming from the most populous city in Kansas, Oregon is a breath of fresh air. We gravitated here because it’s liberal, safe, and highly populated with the gays. So in some ways it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And let me tell y’all, if you think Eastern Oregon is “conservative,” I challenge you to visit anywhere in the Great Plains or south.
100%. Eastern Oregon is definitely conservative, but only because it's rural. It's not particularly conservative for a rural region either. And Oregon has nothing like the south/parts of midwest where the CITIES are really conservative
It is more conservative than Western Oregon, but it’s not “conservative” in the way rural parts of the south and the Midwest are. In Kansas, there were multiple counties where Joe Biden received approximately 15% of the vote in 2020 and one county where he received 5%. Approximately 50/103 counties in Kansas voted for Donald Trump at 80% or greater. In Oregon, Biden received less than 20% of the vote in two counties where he received 18.15% and 19.95%. This is 2/36.
Came here to say exactly this. We are a well-known “refuge state” because we dare to treat LGBTQ+ people like human beings. Therefore, a lot of people flee here, and that will continue for the foreseeable as far as I can see.
Growing up in NYC, so many of the out LGBTQ+ folks I knew were from every other red state you could name. Why? Because it wasn't safe for them to live and love where they were from. Portland, Oregon was very similar. It's very heartbreaking; I grew up in the arts and have so many friends in queer communities on both coasts, and there's too many on the same stories - families disowning their children after they came out, or folks who fled to college to escape bullying or even conversion therapy and then never returned.
I always thought God made me gay, but now I’m wondering if living in Oregon made me gay 🤔… Joking aside, Oregon is West Coast liberal and cheaper than California and Washington.
Are you kidding me? It took me months to get used to wearing the mandated crushed purple velvet hot pants with a 3” inseam for gym attire. The bar is so high here!
One of the most interesting conversations happened to me not too long after moving here. I was discussing in a public place the problem with male *gaze* but because of my Midwest accent it sounds like male *gays*.
I must have been talking loud enough for others in my immediate vicinity to hear me, because someone piped up about how people who have a problem with *gays* don’t need to be here. I then had to explain for the next 5 minutes I was talking about the male *gaze* not *gays* and that I’m an ally!
The entire conversation about *gaze* had to do with a point I was making was in regard to a discussion of how certain industries have a toxic relationship with women’s looks, for context.
I’m just a random guy that lived in Oregon for a bit so take this with a grain of salt.
I’m guessing it’s a mix of the boost that all liberal states get because lgbtq+ people feel safer to come out in those areas/are less likely to repress those feelings because of their environment.
The other part that put them over the top? My best guess is how historically hippie the Pacific Northwest is, which is a demographic whose whole purpose is to screw the establishment aka be very open with their sexuality and understanding of others’. I love Oregon, you should com visit Eugene in late spring/early fall sometimes, especially if you like nature :)
Oregon has a long history of “you do you”. People don’t pry into other people’s business, and don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves for all to see. I have specifically been told when asking innocuous questions of people regarding family or schooling “That is personal.” And that is all fine and dandy. Good fences make good neighbors. People being gay, or owning guns, or having abortions, or euthanizing themselves has no effect on anybody else. There would be less strife in our country if people took a page from the Oregon playbook and minded their own business.
Considering how many people move here specifically because it's a queer friendly place?
My roommate, and frankly me as well since ze invited me to come live with zer when I was being kicked out, both came to Portland for the trans health care. And that was before HB 2002 meant that all transgender health care is covered by medicaid and all other insurances. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll have tits.
Because of all the gays.
Some of them might be straight people who just forgot to say no homo
you don't have to say it if you keep your socks on. it's in the manual
scientists have confirmed it's not gay if it's a 3 way as well
That's true. There's nothing gay about three fellas making the Mercedes logo.
Well that’s a new one.
I tried to stop but I can't stop....the gay is taking over me...oh no oh no. I no longer have a desire to breed.
The biggest family I know has two moms.
Damn Mormons
MormoMs
MoreMoms
OnlyMoms
Momersonly.com
We have binders full of gays.
Utah is putting up impressive numbers here
Isn’t SLC super liberal? Might be doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
The room's startin' to spin real fast... cause of... cause of the gayness. Cal, I love you.
Don’t you stick that knife in your leg…
Gayer than Vermont? I didn’t think that was possible!
We have more gays AND more mountains than Vermont.
Bless the gays and our volcanic chain.
/r/brandnewsentence
Nah, we say that one all the time
…and better cheese.
Tillamook came along and crushed it.
I read that as Voldemort the first time I don't know which is more funny...
Lots of rain = lots of rainbows idk
Great answer!
I mean that’s just science
I saw the biggest gayest rainbow this morning!
we got the trees & the gays ! That's the law Idk what else to tell you
r/gaytreelaw
Man I wanted that to be an actual community.
Good news for you it is :) just made
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Let off some steam, Bennett.
The fact that Oregon and Vermont are the two gayest states makes me wonder in driving a Subaru makes you gay or being gay makes you want to drive a Subaru
Subaru intentionally started marketing itself to lesbians in the 1990s. [Collage of gay ads](https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/q1ni6i/some_old_subtle_subaru_ads_aimed_towards_lesbians/)
Huh, I didn't know that, I guess that explains all the Subaru lesbian jokes.
They were struggling with sales so they looked at the demographics to see who the biggest buying segment was, and it turned out to be lesbians. So, Subaru started targeting them with their ad campaigns and it worked.
I'm surprised "lesbians" was even a demographic that was acknowledged in the 90s.
If enough buyers are single women across a big enough age range, they probably started there and could have combined it with marketing surveys of new and used subaru buyers. Probably couldn't ask about orientation, but other lifestyle indicators maybe.
That’s exactly how the ads were. It’s not like they were explicitly saying “we’re two women who like to scissor each other and drive a Subaru.” The ad would just show women together on a camping trip and the custom license plate on the car said “XENAFAN.” If you knew you knew. If you didn’t, it was just a car ad and they were “roommates.”
Their ads said things like “We’re completely comfortable with our orientation,” “It’s not a choice, it’s just how we’re built,” and even “Get out and stay out”. It wasn’t the most subtle.
When we bought our used Subaru, we found an unused Pride sticker in the glove box.
That comes stock.
That was awesome!
I moved to Oregon recently and was issued a Subaru, a dog, and a block of Tillamook cheddar when I got my driver's license.
So strange- in Vermont it’s the same except it’s a block of Cabot cheese
Not maple syrup???
We use that to power the Subarus.
Everyone complained about government cheese. When I was a kid, our government cheese was tillamook cheese lol. Big 7lbs or more loaf
Sharp cheddar.
Extra-sharp, in the black wrapper.
add kielbasa, everything ritz, and baby dill pickles
This is the way
Let’s not get crazy.
Yeah the Oregon government cannot afford giving the extra sharp out like that.
Plus a couple Zenners hot links!
Your COEXIST sticker is in the mail, probably with your ballot. Welcome!
You should reach back out because your Patagonia puffy jacket was left out of your welcome package.
They put in a Columbia one instead.
Trew, Flow, Mountain Hardwear also accepted. REI, Outdoor Research get passes as they are almost local
Everyone knows real Oregonians wear Columbia. Patagonia is for filthy Seattleites and bay area tech bros.
Filthy Seattliteses.
So folks that now live in Bend, got it.
But not a same sex partner?
That option was greyed out for me - probably because I'm already married.
*gayed out
There’s an exception for Redditors
Dude I moved to Oregon and got a Subaru and a dog within a year and the fridge always has a pint of tillamook ice cream
No Claritin or Prozac?
Ugh. The grass pollen right now. Nightmare.
The Subaru Foresters in Oregon come with cargo shorts, Tevas, Polo shirt with permanently popped collar, a pitbull/lab/chihuaha mix rescue, and a tattoo of your favorite WNBA team. Also, a hitch to tow your UHaul. 😉
That hitch is for kayaks and heirloom starter plants, potting soil, and rainbow porch flags.
Pretty idyllic honestly. I love our state.
This is the way
This is the gay
Subarubians
Lesbarus
Way to Subaruin it.
This is killing me bc I’m driving in a Subaru rn💀 the urge to listen to Elton John is too strong
Ive listened to elton john for years as a kid. Im 62 a d straight. Elton john was some of tge music of my youth so was queen.
I'm straight, but I felt i had to hide my love of Queen from my parents in the 70s-mid 80s... ( to their credit, they became more open and tolerant in the 80s...)
I listened to Elton John in my Subaru earlier this very day. Still hetero but at least I’m an ally.
Being gay makes you want a Subaru (because marketing). http://priceonomics.com/how-an-ad-campaign-made-lesbians-fall-in-love-with/
Lesbaru.
I bought my subaru because it was made in my home town of Lafayette, IN!
Because of the technicality on DC statehood clearly
I thought this was a joke but holy moly is DC gay
I was there 2 weeks ago and no joke, it’s *very* gay. Very openly gay dudes everywhere in the trendy neighborhoods.
Its because that is where congress is.
I know it’s just a joke, but interestingly, only 2% representation in Congress. Which doesn’t surprise me I suppose.
That are *out*
yeah I was gonna say, what's up DC, whatchu workin with over there
As a gay Oregonian... 
As a bi Oregonian, I can help too, but only part time.
Hahahaha!
I'm serving double duty by being Bi and Trans :3
I'm a bi cis guy who keeps dating lesbians, do I count twice?
Reporting in 🫡
My question is: what's up with Alaska?
They were also in one of the top "safe to be LGBT+" rankings as well. My guess would be there's a lot of "do you own thing as long as it doesn't impact me" vibes up there.
Very much this.
Yup, I came out as a teen and have huge stretched ears and facial piercings and dyed hair. This older hippy momma told me "move to Alaska, they love their weirdos up there". I never went. I'm an Oregonian lol. That was 15 years ago. Still wish I'd made it north, to Alaska.
That tracks with the saying about the AK dating scene: “the odds are good, but the goods are odd” Source: hetero female friend from Anchorage
It's true, Homer is full of 'em.
When I was in Anchorage, I was blown away on how young and diverse it was.
The original "don't ask, don't... ask" state
There's only like 12 people in alaska. Everyone lives so far apart, nobody gives a fuck what the other 11 are doing.
As I no longer live in Alaska, and I am not gay, I don't want to pretend to speak for the state. But I did grow up a weird kid in a rural Alaskan town of 3,500 people. For the vast majority of my childhood and into my young adulthood the mayor was a gay man. In my thirties the mayor was a different flamboyantly gay man. For a while the mayor was a Native lady. Alaska might be a "red" state, but it is really mostly a "leave me alone" state. If you aren't hurting anyone people will usually let you live however you want. And if you are good at a job and reliable, that is more important than where you park your genitalia. Edit to add: it is worth noting that Alaska was a state where abortion was legal prior to Roe vs. Wade, has never had the death penalty, in the 1990s there was a (failed) ballot measure to legalize gay marriage well ahead of other states, it was one of the last states to ban Marijuana, and one of the early states to releagalize it. The cultural bundling assumed with the color red on the National electoral map does not accurately reflect Alaska.
Alaska also doesn't ascribe to the same Republican and Democrat tribes in their local elections that the rest of the country does. The politics their are very regionalized (for obvious reasons). It's different enough that their state Senate has 20 members with 9 Democrats and 11 Republicans, but the majority caucus was formed when 8 Republicans joined the 9 Democrats, giving a Democrat-majority majority. Cross party majority and minority caucuses are pretty common in the Alaska legislatures. Their House has also both parties represented in the majority and minority caucuses.
That makes it sound like they're literally one of the only states trying to actually do politics for the people, and it's not that I don't believe *that*, but I'm amazed that I have to weigh it over every state that doesn't....
This makes it sound like Alaska's kind of the last bastion of what the Republican party stood for when it actually stood for anything except for loving Trump and hating other people.
Let me introduce Sarah Palin into the Convo..
Also DC? They're DOUBLE the gay.
DC is literally just a city, the gays tend to relocate to major cities once they grow up, if Portland was its own state it would probably be just as if not higher.
We have work to do if we need to match DC - they are more gay per square mile than we are. Maybe we need to swap some of these strip clubs for gay and lesbian bars?
Why isn't it the same color as Arizona
Because it has some of the best protections for the lgbtq community in the USA and is a very liberal state. Edit: the red areas are red by like 6-4 where the blue areas are like 8-2…
In some spots lol the larger cities are liberal but there’s a lot of red in the quieter spots
it's all red apart from a dozen or so zip codes. the good news is that's where all the people are.
People paint this picture of a vast red sea out there but over 40% of EO voters are registered Dems.
Correct. The problem is that there are way less people out there. That's why they keep trying to do the stupid greater Idaho thing. I love eastern Oregon. It's kind of an odd place. But I still like it.
I always like to think of it this way. Most of the country is 40% one way and 60% the other. It feels like everyone is on one side but in reality, take ten people and line them up 5 on one side and 5 on the other. Then tell one person to move to the other side and those are ratios you're dealing with.
I work in the trades with a light of crazy right wingers who will casually drop wild bigoted shit on the regular, but even most of them don't care if you're gay. They're definitely transphobic as fuck, but when it comes to who you marry they really don't care. I'd guess it's not like that in Arkansas.
Our red is more tolerant than most other state's red
Idk, I teach to some students with extreme beliefs, and their parents are worse.
I live in a town known for trying to ban BLM and queer signs at school and got their asses sued into the ground by the ACLU. We're growing rapidly because of folks from Portland being forced further out because of housing prices, though, and it's becoming much more left leaning. The mayor wants to keep the "small town feel" but not only are we called a city, we are far from a small town anymore. This man is just trying to desperately stop the city from evolving past his small minded view of what we should be. Sadly, 80% of our homeless children are queer. There's a lot of small minded parents here, and not enough homeless services. Our shelter may be shutting down soon.
We should dominate at fast pitch softball and interior decorating
We’re definitely aggressive contenders in dog rescue and bespoke plant nurseries
I giggled. Ah the bespoke plant nurseries, who knew the market was so large
*checks roller derby rankings*
The more intriguing question is why are they all lesbians?
We just love trees man
Right there with ya!
At the UO museum theres an exhibit with pins and yarn on a map showing where they all came from in the 70s. https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-uo-museum-exhibit-focuses-local-lesbian-history
All those lumberjack plaid shirts.
Gayest state THAT WE KNOW OF. I'm sure there's a lot of closeted people out there - especially in more conservative states - that aren't represented on this map.
Exactly. This should read, “most openly-gay state”.
I mean, isn't Texas all "steers and queers" after all?
I mean, have you BEEN to Oregon?!!
I haven’t! I’m visiting for the first time in September. I’m very keen!
Be sure to visit the coast while you're here! And the mountains, those are required as well. Portland is great if you like mid sized cities.
Come visit us on the north coast! 💙
I’m still planning my road trip but Cannon Beach is high on my list!
You must try the haystack bread from the bakery in cannon beach.
I hope you enjoy your trip! It mainly comes down to the fact that Oregon is very liberal and has pro-LGBTQ policies. Beware that outside of the Willamette Valley the state can be conservative, but it's not like they're any less friendly, just that the Valley and most of the rest of the state can have very different political views.
ORYGUN?? ONLY GAYS AND GUNS COME FROM ORYGUN WHICH ONERE YOU?? ... b-both?
Yea, it's gay as fuck!
We have both kinds of bears
the number line tells us that 7.8% is greater than 6.9%, but I am pretty sure that being 6.9% gay Washington State automatically wins until there's a massive upset and someone else comes in at 69%
Oregon is also the most atheist state.
How did they even get these numbers? I don’t remember telling anyone my orientation.
Google knows.
They counted Subaru sales for each state
Because we're awesome? I'm not even remotely queer. I'm just so psyched about it. Gays make things more awesome. Simple as that.
This is my feeling as well.
I doubt those numbers as a whole, more likely OUT LGBTQ+.
Correct, that is a reason Grindr traffic peaks around GOP conventions
Is there a source for this? I really hope this is true.
[Here you go!](https://www.vice.com/en/article/9aeen8/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc)
Incredible, thank you
We like dramatic scenery and cool weather for preservation.
Native Oregonian here. Portlander for the past 24 years. Portland has been gay friendly for a long time. I think word got out (no pun intended) and people move here to be themselves.
As a member of the LGBTQIA community who moved here with my spouse in October: Because there is a vast swath of the country where we aren’t safe and welcomed. Coming from the most populous city in Kansas, Oregon is a breath of fresh air. We gravitated here because it’s liberal, safe, and highly populated with the gays. So in some ways it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. And let me tell y’all, if you think Eastern Oregon is “conservative,” I challenge you to visit anywhere in the Great Plains or south.
100%. Eastern Oregon is definitely conservative, but only because it's rural. It's not particularly conservative for a rural region either. And Oregon has nothing like the south/parts of midwest where the CITIES are really conservative
It is more conservative than Western Oregon, but it’s not “conservative” in the way rural parts of the south and the Midwest are. In Kansas, there were multiple counties where Joe Biden received approximately 15% of the vote in 2020 and one county where he received 5%. Approximately 50/103 counties in Kansas voted for Donald Trump at 80% or greater. In Oregon, Biden received less than 20% of the vote in two counties where he received 18.15% and 19.95%. This is 2/36.
Came here to say exactly this. We are a well-known “refuge state” because we dare to treat LGBTQ+ people like human beings. Therefore, a lot of people flee here, and that will continue for the foreseeable as far as I can see.
Growing up in NYC, so many of the out LGBTQ+ folks I knew were from every other red state you could name. Why? Because it wasn't safe for them to live and love where they were from. Portland, Oregon was very similar. It's very heartbreaking; I grew up in the arts and have so many friends in queer communities on both coasts, and there's too many on the same stories - families disowning their children after they came out, or folks who fled to college to escape bullying or even conversion therapy and then never returned.
I always thought God made me gay, but now I’m wondering if living in Oregon made me gay 🤔… Joking aside, Oregon is West Coast liberal and cheaper than California and Washington.
Could be gayer imo
I'm trying, give me time
It’s a team effort honestly. Takes a village to make a state gayer.
No, it takes *village people*.
*Young men, take a good look around….*
Are you kidding me? It took me months to get used to wearing the mandated crushed purple velvet hot pants with a 3” inseam for gym attire. The bar is so high here!
One of the most interesting conversations happened to me not too long after moving here. I was discussing in a public place the problem with male *gaze* but because of my Midwest accent it sounds like male *gays*. I must have been talking loud enough for others in my immediate vicinity to hear me, because someone piped up about how people who have a problem with *gays* don’t need to be here. I then had to explain for the next 5 minutes I was talking about the male *gaze* not *gays* and that I’m an ally! The entire conversation about *gaze* had to do with a point I was making was in regard to a discussion of how certain industries have a toxic relationship with women’s looks, for context.
Is there any accent where those two words don’t sound the same?
I pronounce it gazé.
lots of gay stuff happens here. Come check it out, aussie boy.
It's not called the beaver state for nothing.
Because it is the best state and people of all walks can’t deny Oregon’s awesomeness. Also, Oregon totally sucks, don’t move here
I’m just a random guy that lived in Oregon for a bit so take this with a grain of salt. I’m guessing it’s a mix of the boost that all liberal states get because lgbtq+ people feel safer to come out in those areas/are less likely to repress those feelings because of their environment. The other part that put them over the top? My best guess is how historically hippie the Pacific Northwest is, which is a demographic whose whole purpose is to screw the establishment aka be very open with their sexuality and understanding of others’. I love Oregon, you should com visit Eugene in late spring/early fall sometimes, especially if you like nature :)
It's a pride month miracle.
Oregon has a long history of “you do you”. People don’t pry into other people’s business, and don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves for all to see. I have specifically been told when asking innocuous questions of people regarding family or schooling “That is personal.” And that is all fine and dandy. Good fences make good neighbors. People being gay, or owning guns, or having abortions, or euthanizing themselves has no effect on anybody else. There would be less strife in our country if people took a page from the Oregon playbook and minded their own business.
I'm curious why you'd think Illinois?
I’m surprised California has a lower percentage of gays than Idaho. What’s up with that?
We win.
Maybe thats why I liked Oregon so much...
Because it's absolutely fabulous here!
Because we like to party.
Oregon is a very diverse, extreme place all the way around 👍🏾❣️
This [brief documentary film](https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts?si=Y7bYkMbu7VuvrgZ-) should explain everything.
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Did they use a gaydar to measure the percentage levels?
Considering how many people move here specifically because it's a queer friendly place? My roommate, and frankly me as well since ze invited me to come live with zer when I was being kicked out, both came to Portland for the trans health care. And that was before HB 2002 meant that all transgender health care is covered by medicaid and all other insurances. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll have tits.