{"id":117343,"date":"2017-09-12T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=117343"},"modified":"2017-09-13T03:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:54:35","slug":"lgbt-americans-are-disproportionately-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=117343","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Americans Are Disproportionately Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/382144\/by-the-numbers-10-surprising-demographic-facts-about-us-jews\/\">Forward<\/a>: &#8220;While only 2% of Americans are Jewish, the study found that 6% of LGBT Americans identify as Jews. Nearly half (46%) of LGBT Americans are religiously unaffiliated, roughly twice the American average of 24%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88701\">There seem to be a lot of Jewish gays.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do some ethnic groups have more homosexuals than other ethnic groups?<br \/>\nOf course not everyone will agree with him on the issue of homosexuals being &#8220;smarter&#8221; than those of us who are straight. I suspect they are slightly higher on the verbal and social abilities. I also do suspect that some ethnic groups might have slightly higher proportion, but it&#8217;s not like I know if that is so.<br \/>\n(I notice an unusual number of bisexual Jews in the film industry for example.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ray Sawhill: &#8220;The sorts of gay guys who succeed in the culture world &#8212; who manage to keep their heads above water, and maybe even rise, in fields like the media, fashion, theater, etc &#8212; are often impressively talented and bright. They&#8217;re often lots of dizzying fun to be around too. They can make a lot of straight people look really dull. After 35 years in NYC, I can testify that warmth, exuberance, brains, humor, charisma and drive aren&#8217;t in short supply among Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charles: &#8220;I met a very flamboyant Jewish guy on set a few days ago. Just thinking about how he seemed to master the crowd after hours. It&#8217;s made me consider the differences in social power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adam: &#8220;Gay men seem great at having intense knowledge In specific interests but very poor generalised knowledge, systematic understanding or analysis of linkages and cause and effect relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: &#8220;This is why God wants us inside the Torah Corral, where the only people we can harm are ourselves, and our rebbes keep a vigilant eye on us all to make sure there is no buggery going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward: &#8220;While only 2% of Americans are Jewish, the study found that 6% of LGBT Americans identify as Jews. Nearly half (46%) of LGBT Americans are religiously unaffiliated, roughly twice the American average of 24%.&#8221; There seem to be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=117343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobia","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117347,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117343\/revisions\/117347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}