Tag Archives: maps

Another stab at the meme. (Source)

The Advocate provides the above map of the 26 nations which now allow gay service members to serve openly. One caveat: “The Palm Center notes that some of the countries listed are ‘questionable cases’ — Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Switzerland and Germany. In Italy, for example, a gay soldier could still be discharged if their sexual orientation …

You’ll have to embiggen it to make sense of this “internet penetration” map.

Equality Matters notes: In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Texas’ sodomy statute was unconstitutional, marking a major legal victory on the path towards LGBT equality. With the remainder of state sodomy laws technically invalidated by Lawrence, the LGBT community began to shift its focus. [snip] Eight years later, however, eighteen states still refuse to …

The Movement Advancement Project has a nifty interactive map which pops up pertinent LGBT rights info when you scroll over a state.

There’s no up or down from outer space.

National Geographic has a huge interactive version.

A reader sends us his map of where TV’s gay characters live. Can you add more?

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Huge version at the New York Times.

Wired Magazine reports: With HIV’s 30th anniversary around the corner, a new interactive map reveals U.S. data on the disease down to individual counties and, for some cities, even zip codes. The nonprofit mapping effort, called AIDSVu, isn’t a perfect representation of the disease in the United States. The visualization is based on 2008 data, some states didn’t contribute county …

Blue is most peaceful, based on the rate of violent crimes and other factors.

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The Economist places other countries in the Chinese provinces with a similar population. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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From a just-published report by the World Health Organization. The Economist sums things up: The biggest boozers are mostly found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the most bibulous, getting through 18.2 litres each, nearly 2 litres more than the Czechs in second place. Over 10 litres of a Moldovan’s annual intake is reckoned to be …

Embiggen the above image to read the details on this reimagining of the Mississippi River system as a subway map.

Embiggen today’s map for the meaning of country names. Some are fairly obvious, some are somewhat amusing.