The UCLA School of Law Williams Institute, which describes itself as “the leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy,” claimed in a report that Kentucky was the state with the highest percentage of gay adults — at 10.5 percent.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the report was spectacularly wrong. The Williams Institute apologized that the Bluegrass State is just, well, moderately gay.
The institute retracted the claim and issued a correction for the “data error,” stating that the actual percentage of LGBT-identifying adults in Kentucky is 4.9 percent.