California will take you, although the high cost of living might make it difficult (I live here). I believe someone had made a map of the states with color coding and citations on their safety for LGBTQ people as a whole, but I can’t seem to find the link in my bookmarks.
There are many such maps I’ve seen, though in search I’m finding many appear either somewhat out of date, unclear whether or which which data they are using, and lots that were originally posted on R***** that have since been removed (even in queer subs) temporarily cached by search indexes but with no provenance or explanatory detail.
The following are a selection of these sorted by my opinion of their overall quality and usefulness.
1. General LGBTQ+ safety ratings color-coded by state with recommended travel corridors overlaid and additional detail re: safety rating justification (removed by R*****):
2. 2022 PRRI research paper figure depicting public support for LGBT non-discrimination protections, color-coded by state:
Yeah there were a number of grades on map 1 which made me think it was out of date. I would not put the TN of today in the C column, for example, even the former blue dot of Nashville, due to the MAGA political migrations to that state in 2021 and 2022. The overall utility of the map is the primary reason I gave it the top spot.
California will take you, although the high cost of living might make it difficult (I live here). I believe someone had made a map of the states with color coding and citations on their safety for LGBTQ people as a whole, but I can’t seem to find the link in my bookmarks.
There are many such maps I’ve seen, though in search I’m finding many appear either somewhat out of date, unclear whether or which which data they are using, and lots that were originally posted on R***** that have since been removed (even in queer subs) temporarily cached by search indexes but with no provenance or explanatory detail.
The following are a selection of these sorted by my opinion of their overall quality and usefulness.
1. General LGBTQ+ safety ratings color-coded by state with recommended travel corridors overlaid and additional detail re: safety rating justification (removed by R*****):
2. 2022 PRRI research paper figure depicting public support for LGBT non-discrimination protections, color-coded by state:
https://prri.org/research/findings-from-the-2022-american-values-atlas/
3. Generic map depicting safety by state included in an article by PinkNews:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/02/lgbtq-safe-states/
4. Right to change legal gender, by state, with no source citation or other justification (removed by R*****):
Edit: reordered 3 and 4, added links that aren’t dead, clarified some language, censored R***** references, added spoiler tags to reduce height
New Hampshire is not safer than Massachusetts for travel.
Yeah there were a number of grades on map 1 which made me think it was out of date. I would not put the TN of today in the C column, for example, even the former blue dot of Nashville, due to the MAGA political migrations to that state in 2021 and 2022. The overall utility of the map is the primary reason I gave it the top spot.
As a colorblind person, these maps are horrendous 😭