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LGBTQ Connecticut

Hartford offers a wide variety of music, theatre, art, sports and dining, with a part big city, part small New England town atmosphere. While Hartford might seem straight-laced at first glance, it is also home to an active gay community. Dance parties, theme nights and drag shows define Hartford’s gay nightlife. Most of the bars are conveniently located within a couple of miles from downtown. Hartford ranks among the places with the highest percentage of adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a Gallup Poll study of the top 50 U.S. metropolitan areas.

A total of 4.6 percent of residents in A total of 4.6 percent of residents in Hartford identify as LGBTQ, putting Hartford identify as LGBTQ, putting the Connecticut capital in a tie with the Connecticut capital in a tie with Denver and Los Angeles. For the Denver and Los Angeles. For the purposes of the study, Hartford purposes of the study, Hartford includes West Hartford and East includes West Hartford and East

Hartford. Connecticut cities and Hartford. Connecticut cities and towns also score higher than towns also score higher than average when it comes to average when it comes to laws and policies supporting laws and policies supporting the LGBTQ community. the LGBTQ community.

The quaint East Coast town The quaint East Coast town of New Haven is home to of New Haven is home to one of the best universities one of the best universities in the country, not to in the country, not to mention one of the gayest. mention one of the gayest. Yale University boasts a Yale University boasts a rather large number of rather large number of LGBTQ students, faculty and LGBTQ students, faculty and organizations, which spreads its intellectual influence across the globe and its social life onto the college town in the form of bars, restaurants and shops.