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insofarincogneato t1_iywsn2a wrote

Why would you think an entire town could be a monolith for a singular experience? Even the small rural conservative town I live in has a business with a pride flag in the window.... There's good and bad everywhere. Typically places with higher population have more diversity. More diversity leads to acceptance of ideas. It checks out that there's gonna be more acceptance for LGBT+ folks there compared to other places but maybe less than other places.

This is a bit of an odd question to me.

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kelvra13 t1_iywtqs7 wrote

because shit like sundown towns still exist here in 2022. It's not unreasonable to ask if you're going to be safe and welcome in a specific place. Or whether or not you'll be able to find your community in your town

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insofarincogneato t1_iywvxx0 wrote

Everyone's experience is different, how can you say what someone's experience will likely be? This isn't black and white.

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kelvra13 t1_iywy190 wrote

you're being intentionally disingenuous

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insofarincogneato t1_iyz61o4 wrote

No, I'm not. What agenda would I be pushing to do that? My experience in a town isn't going to be same as anyone else's. I simply asked what the criteria is to qualify a town as LGBT friendly. It's really not hard. At the end of the day it's a generalization. How many shitty people do you have to meet opposite of a community of LGBT support groups before you can call the whole town anti LGBT?

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iYogi21 t1_iywt4xx wrote

If your question is to me, it is because I am part of the LGBT Community as well as if I can say, “Is Allentown Indian (from India) and British Friendly?”

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insofarincogneato t1_iywtkcc wrote

How can enough people in a town share the same idea enough to be able to answer that question? Like, what ratio of LGBT allies to homophobes are you looking for?

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iYogi21 t1_iywtwu4 wrote

You are joking right? 1. I am not asking the entire town because not everyone in the tow is on Reddit. 2. I am only asking those that are either LGBT friendly themselves, part of the LGBT themselves or ally’s.

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insofarincogneato t1_iywvcdk wrote

Yeah, and as someone who's non binary I'm asking how do you quantify that?

Define your requirements that need met in order to call a town LGBT friendly. You act like it's black and white, like every experience is the same. What's the criteria to define if a town is LGBT friendly or not?

It's really a simple question.

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