Alternative Lifestyles

Louisville is a comfortable, welcoming community for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Since 2000, among the country’s 50 largest cities, Louisville had the largest percentage increase in the number of same-sex couples. We were one of the first cities in the south to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The law has since been expanded to include housing and other public accommodations — and when merger of city and county governments brought it up again, the Fairness Ordinance was resoundingly renewed. That’s the law. Here’s the reality it reflects (and supports): The city’s LGBT-friendly institutions include churches, arts groups, charitable groups – and bars, of course, that range from cozy to the city-block-size powerhouse that is The Connection. There’s a newspaper, the Letter, and a monthly magazine, G3; there’s also a gay yellow pages. There are also scads of people, gay and straight, who take a person as he or she is. You could call it hospitality, in a new key. Whatever. Point is, Possibility City offers its possibilities to everyone.