Rating Nashville from 1-10 on Achieving Real LGBTQIA+ Equali
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LGBTQIA+ community members rate Nashville in terms of achieving real LGBTQIA+ equality.
According to a Pew Research Center study, young LGBT adults are less likely to perceive significant progress toward equality over the past 10 years than their older counterparts. See the survey results and hear how Nashvillians of various ages rate the community in terms of achieving real equality for LGBTQIA+ people and how their distinct lived experiences shape their ratings.
Aging Matters is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Rating Nashville from 1-10 on Achieving Real LGBTQIA+ Equali
Special | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
According to a Pew Research Center study, young LGBT adults are less likely to perceive significant progress toward equality over the past 10 years than their older counterparts. See the survey results and hear how Nashvillians of various ages rate the community in terms of achieving real equality for LGBTQIA+ people and how their distinct lived experiences shape their ratings.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(soft music) - [Zoe] I would give Nashville about a seven or an eight out of ten.
(soft music) - In Franklin, I would give it an eight because it's evolving.
- Probably be about a six.
- [John] I'd give our community and our city a rating of eight.
- I would give my community honestly, a four or five.
- In terms of Nashville itself, as one of the more progressive enclaves within the state, I probably give it about seven.
- There is a lack of progressive surrounding any like actual substantial change for people who are gender diverse.
As someone who's non-binary, I really think that some of the, oh what are your pronouns?
Is kind of like a superficial level to actually respecting someone's gender identity.
- There are a number of barriers that LGBTQ folks still face here in Middle Tennessee.
Many employers don't offer gender affirming health care insurance plans, including our government's.
There are no explicit workplace or housing protections for LGBTQIA folks except for a shaky SCOTUS decision that we now see can be reversed.
- I've been bullied, of course, in lots of ways.
I lost jobs, or I didn't get jobs because I was gay, I'm sure.
But I didn't try to work in places where people would know you were gay and you couldn't work there.
That never happened for me.
So I've experienced my city, Nashville, as a very welcoming place to me.
It hadn't been that way for everybody I know, and younger people haven't had the experience that I've had and they don't understand how far we've come 'cause they don't know where we came from.
- I think there has been significant progress not only in legal and civil protections, but also, I think, a cultural change.
- We had just recently started having our own pride and we recently having meet-up meetings.
So it's an evolving situation there because it's a growing community.
- This is the first place I've ever been where it's cool to go to a gay nightclub.
When I first got here, I remember quite a few people told me about play dance bar.
I found that even among my friends who didn't identify as LGBTQ+ they're still very happy to join me when we go there.
- [Shawn] We have a lot of really incredible joys and opportunities here in Nashville.
But still we have such a long way to go.
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Aging Matters is a local public television program presented by WNPT