Where to move for… LGBTQI communities

The most progressive places if you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual – with some surprising results

Lambeth, south London – as close as possible to the magnificent Royal Vauxhall Tavern (though with all those skyscrapers going up next door, for how long)? Last year, the Office for National Statistics “experimentally” mapped the UK’s population identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (though not trans or non-binary) down to local authority level for the first time, and found Lambeth had the country’s highest proportion, 5.5%, against a national average of 1.7%. Southwark came second with 5%, and, no surprises, Brighton & Hove third with 4.8%. Inner London boroughs as a whole had 3.1%, and Manchester 1.7%, with the lowest, around 0.4%, in North Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire, confirming studies that for decades have shown the safest havens for LGBTQI communities to be in cities.

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