West Virginia might seem not to be the coolest place to be LGBTQ. It's a conservative state with a declining population, so you wouldn't expect to find many such people here. You'd expect, instead, that LGBTQ people born here might want out. Many do leave, but in fact many of them do stay.

West Virginia might seem not to be the coolest place to be LGBTQ. It's a conservative state with a declining population, so you wouldn't expect to find many such people here. You'd expect, instead, that LGBTQ people born here might want out. Many do leave, but in fact many of them do stay.