Not only do cities like Norfolk, Louisville, and Indianapolis have thriving LGBTQ+ communities, they're now seeing larger increases in their LGBTQ populations than places like San Francisco or New York. Samantha Allen documents this change in her new book, Real Queer America. It disproves the common my that if you want to be happy, you must move to a big city in a blue state. 

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