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Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT
Inaugural Gallup findings based on more than 120,000 interviews

by Gary J. Gates and Frank Newport

Full Gallup Poll Results @ hXXp://www.gallup.com/poll/158066/special-report-adults-identify-lgbt.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication

James Peron

President, Moorfield Storey Institute

The polling company Gallup has waded into the debate regarding how many Americans are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. It asked 121,290 individuals about their sexual orientation and gender identity, and, based on their answers, it came up with an estimate of 3.4 percent.

Gallup recognizes problems with its methodology, however:

As a group still subject to social stigma, many of those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender may not be forthcoming about this identity when asked about it in a survey. Therefore, it's likely that some Americans in what is commonly referred to as "the closet" would not be included in the estimates derived from the Gallup interviews.

Gallup says it used a "broad measure of personal identification as LGBT" but admits that it actually excludes "sexual or other behavior, either past or present." In other words, individuals who consistently and regularly have same-sex relationships but who label themselves as heterosexual are not counted as members of the LGBT community.

The results of the poll indicate strongly that the estimate itself is clearly low. We have no reason to suspect that sexual orientation varies by race, age or income, but how one labels oneself does change from category to category. Gay religious fundamentalists are more likely to avoid labeling themselves as gay than are gay secular humanists, for example.

What we find in the Gallup survey is a pattern where some within the community are more willing to identify as LGBT than others. Non-Hispanic whites are less willing to identify as LGBT than are blacks, Hispanics or Asians. Whereas 4.6 percent of the black community identifies as LGBT, the percentage among non-Hispanic whites is just 3.2 percent.

Similarly, we see vast differences between age groups. Whereas 6.4 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 29 identify as LGBT, only 3.2 percent of those between the ages of 30 and 49 do so. We know younger gay people don't attach the same stigma to being gay that older ones do. Though there is a certain amount of fluidity in sexual identification, one's sexual attractions rarely shift substantially – though one's behavior can change dramatically.

Even among the young, there are still plenty of individuals reluctant to identify as LGBT for numerous reasons, such as family or religious identification. It is unlikely that 100 percent of individuals who are LGBT will ever identify as such.

There are also differences according to income. Gallup reports:

Among those who report income, about 16% of LGBT-identified individuals have incomes above $90,000 per year, compared with 21% of the overall adult population. Additionally, 35% of those who identify as LGBT report incomes of less than $24,000 a year, significantly higher than the 24% for the population in general. These findings are consistent with research showing that LGBT people are at a higher risk of poverty.

There are some problems with this assertion. First, income correlates highly with age. Younger people, who are less wealthy in general, are more likely to identify as LGBT. That fact alone drives down the average for the LGBT community. In addition, women are far more likely to identify as LGBT than are men, and there is a lower income average for women in general. The "poverty" difference may not be measuring LGBT poverty at all but the relatively less-well-off status of younger people and women.

The survey also showed that LGBT women are as likely as others to be raising children. The presence of children in the home is more likely to raise poverty levels; more mouths to feed with the same income means more relative poverty. This is particularly true for single mothers, and if lesbian mothers are less likely to be partnered than straight mothers, it would raise the poverty average for all LGBT people.

Once we get beyond the basic results, we still don't know precisely how many people are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Results from younger people show that once we factor in people's reluctance to identify themselves, the percentage is probably above 5 percent. It seems reasonable to me to assume that the total number, while unknowable, is probably 5 to 10 percent of the population. Even with the low estimate, this is still 15.5 million Americans, and up to 31.1 million at the high estimate.

But should these numbers matter at all? Would marriage equality cease to matter if gays were 1 percent of the population?

Rights are not bestowed by group membership (though we often find people willing to deny rights to individuals because they are members of a group). That is what the concept of "individual rights" is all about. They belong to the individual. And, in the United States, it is supposed to be individual rights that undergird our legal system.

Thomas Jefferson would not have been keen on voters having the power to determine whether individuals or minorities have certain rights, as was the case with the infamous Proposition 8 in California. He wrote, "The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." He argued that "the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals." That means that the best principle of the American republic is to "secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights." A perfect equality of rights can't be secured when gay and lesbian people are treated as second-class citizens, and not because of their individuality but because of an irrelevant collective trait.

London jury deliberates in federal hate-crimes trial

By Bill Estep — [email protected]

LONDON — Jurors on Wednesday will begin deciding the fate of two men charged in a federal hate-crimes case.

Prosecution and defense attorneys finished closing arguments in the case about 4 p.m. Wednesday, and U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove said jurors would begin deliberating after he instructs them in the applicable law.

Jason Jenkins and Anthony Jenkins, who are first cousins, are on trial in U.S. District Court in London on charges that they assaulted Kevin Pennington of Letcher County because Pennington is gay.

The two are charged with conspiracy, kidnapping Pennington, and injuring him because of his sexual orientation.

The trial is the first in the nation under a section of the federal hate-crimes law that makes it illegal to attack someone based on the victim's real or perceived sexual orientation. Jason and Anthony Jenkins could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.

In closing arguments, prosecutors reminded jurors of testimony from several witnesses who said the Jenkins cousins targeted Pennington because he is gay.

Those witnesses included Anthony Jenkins' sister, Ashley, and his wife, Alexis, who pleaded guilty to aiding in the attack.

They testified for the prosecution in hopes of getting lesser sentences.

The two said they took part in a plan to lure Pennington into Anthony Jenkins' pickup truck with a story that they wanted to buy drugs.

Instead, the group took Pennington to a secluded spot in Kingdom Come State Park, in Harlan County, and yelled anti-gay slurs as the two men punched and kicked Pennington, the two women testified.

Pennington said he escaped into the woods when the two men stopped beating him in order to look for a tire iron with which to kill him.

"They brutally assaulted Kevin because he is, in their words, a … faggot," prosecutor Angie Cha told jurors.

Prosecutors acknowledged Pennington first concealed the reason he went with the others — which was to buy drugs — but his account of the crime has been consistent in all other ways since his first panicked call to 911 when he reached a phone at the park manager's station, prosecutors said.

Defense attorneys, however, argued the government's case was built on lies.

The assault stemmed from drug and alcohol abuse and an aborted drug deal, not Pennington's sexual orientation, defense attorneys told jurors.

Jason Jenkins got mad because the drug dealer Pennington planned to take them to was rumored to be a police informant, said Jenkins' attorney, Andrew Stephens.

The group ended up not going to the man's house to buy a pill, and Jenkins, angry that Pennington might have put them in danger of getting arrested, went "redneck," Stephens said.

"So all of a sudden, nobody's going to get stoned now, and they lost control," Stephens said.

Anthony Jenkins' attorney, Willis Coffey, said Ashley and Alexis Jenkins and Pennington lied in their testimony.

The women told a number of people in the months after the attack that it was motivated by drugs, but they changed their stories after learning they could face long federal prison sentences, Coffey said.

Coffey noted that Ashley and Alexis Jenkins said they are bisexual, that Jason Jenkins had wanted to have sex with Pennington at one point, and that Anthony Jenkins didn't get mad when Pennington offered him drugs to have sex with him.

The theory that the two men attacked Pennington because he is gay doesn't make sense, Coffey said.

"This turned out to be the most sexually tolerant group that I've ever heard of," Coffey told jurors.

In response, however, prosecutor Hydee Hawkins said jurors should consider why, if the attack stemmed from a drug deal gone bad, the four people involved in the crime felt it necessary to trick Pennington into getting into the truck with them.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/10/24/2383390/london-jury-deliberates-in-federal.html#storylink=cpy

By Bill Estep — [email protected]

LONDON — In the first trial of its kind in the nation, a gay man testified Wednesday that two men yelled slurs about his sexual orientation as they punched and kicked him during a vicious attack in Harlan County.

Kevin Pennington, 29, said Jason and Anthony Jenkins took him to a dark, isolated road in mountainous Kingdom Come State Park and assaulted him one night in April 2011.

"You're gonna die, you … faggot! You deserve this!" Pennington said the two yelled as they hit him.

Defense attorneys did not cross-examine Pennington on Wednesday, but they described Pennington as a drug dealer and said he lied early in the case by not disclosing that a planned drug deal preceded the attack.

"Mr. Pennington does not come to this with clean hands," Andrew Stephens, who represents Jason Jenkins, told jurors.

Jason and Anthony Jenkins, who are cousins, are charged with conspiring to kidnap Pennington, with kidnapping him, and with injuring him because he is gay.

The charges were the first in the nation under a section of the federal hate-crimes law that makes it illegal to attack someone based on the victim's real or perceived sexual orientation, according to U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey. The Jenkins cousins could face life in prison if convicted.

One key issue in the trial, which began Wednesday, is whether the attack on Pennington was motivated by anti-gay bias.

"This case is about the two defendants ... planning and trying to kill Kevin Pennington because Kevin Pennington is gay," Assistant U.S. Attorney Hydee Hawkins told jurors.

The Jenkins cousins attacked Pennington's boyfriend in 2009, but he and Pennington got away, prosecutors said in a court document.

Jason Jenkins decided to attack Pennington last year over that "unfinished business," Hawkins told jurors Wednesday.

Stephens and Willis G. Coffey, who represents Anthony Jenkins, acknowledged that Pennington was beaten up last year, but they said the attack was not because of his sexual orientation.

Coffey said Pennington had agreed to buy a dose of Suboxone for Ashley Jenkins, who is Anthony's sister. Suboxone is used to treat drug dependency, but it also can be abused to create a high.

However, Jason Jenkins, who was very drunk and abusing drugs, was worried that Pennington's source was a police informant, and the two argued, Coffey said.

"There was simply an argument that led to a fight because Jason was out of his head," Coffey said.

The crippling level of drug abuse in Eastern Kentucky is a subtext in the trial. Everyone involved had a drug problem except Anthony Jenkins.

Ashley Jenkins and Alexis Jenkins, Anthony Jenkins' wife, also were charged in the case.

Both pleaded guilty to aiding in the attack on Pennington, but neither have been sentenced.

Ashley Jenkins testified Wednesday that she had bought Suboxone from Pennington many times before April 2011.

Jason and Anthony Jenkins came up with a plan for her ask Pennington to go to Cumberland with her and help her get the drug, Ashley Jenkins testified.

The real goal was to lure Pennington into Anthony Jenkins' pickup truck, she said.

Jason and Anthony Jenkins wore hooded clothes to hide their faces, turned off the dome light in the truck and looked away from Pennington as he approached, she testified.

"They was going to take him up on the park and beat him to death" and dispose of his body, Ashley Jenkins said of her brother and cousin.

On the way, Alexis Jenkins mistakenly turned on the interior light, and Pennington, in the back seat of the extended-cab pickup, saw Jason and Anthony Jenkins up front.

Pennington could not get out of the back seat unless the front door was opened.

Pennington began asking to get out, but Jason Jenkins instead threatened to rape him, both Ashley Jenkins and Pennington testified.

She said Pennington begged her not to let the others hurt him, but they dragged him out of the truck and punched and kicked him repeatedly while all four of them yelled anti-gay slurs.

Defense attorneys challenged Ashley Jenkins' truthfulness, saying she has given conflicting statements, and they suggested that she crafted her story to try to get a lower sentence.

Coffey said she had earlier told at least nine people that the attack was motivated by drugs, not Pennington's sexual orientation.

Jenkins acknowledged that she wants to try to get a lower sentence, but she said she told the truth on the witness stand.

Pennington, a slight, soft-spoken man, became emotional as he described the attack on the cold, rainy night.

He said he curled into a ball on the road as Jason and Anthony Jenkins hit and kicked him.

"I was screaming at the top of my lungs, 'Please stop!'" and he said he apologized for whatever he'd done to make them mad.

He said he saw flashes of light as his head kept hitting the pavement, and then he blacked out.

When he came to, the others were looking for a tire iron in the truck to continue beating him, Pennington said.

Fearing for his life, he ran and jumped over the side of the mountain near the road, landing several feet down, Pennington said.

He hid behind a rock until his attackers stopped looking for him, then, after they left, he limped to the ranger station and broke a window to get access to a phone to call for help, he said.

Pennington said he initially did not tell authorities of the drug buy that he had arranged before the attack because he was concerned that would detract from the real reason for the assault: his sexual orientation.

Defense attorneys are scheduled to cross-examine Pennington when the trial resumes Thursday.

Read more here: hXXp://www.kentucky.com/2012/10/17/2374726/trial-begins-in-eastern-kentucky.html#storylink=cpy

I made this dish  :cheers:

From the picture of Newmale's dish, I decided that the best local product to use was a good quality Bacon that I can get in the one meat market around here. They slice it to order and it is really"Smoked Pork Belly" which is Bacon but this is not the long strips like commercial pre-sliced Bacon. It is shorter in length than that kind of Bacon.

:announce: It was **Fabulous!!!

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This sounds really YUMMY!! However, I am not a fan of any Fish at all.  :cry2: just can't do it.  :sorry:

I do think looking at this recipe that I could substitute Boneless Chicken Breast for the Salmon and it will be just as delicious!!

I was to try this but if geo is happy with it then I will look into this more closely.

:cheers: An excellent idea!!!  :cheers:

Long time this has been on the "To Do" list and I will bump that discussion  :ok2:

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Nipple play pics are not easy to find at times but I found these all in 1 place. However, they are not very large this time.I will stay on the hunt for some Nipple Play pics that are larger than these.

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A few more….

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