Think Tank Retracts Claim Kentucky Is the Gayest State

A UC Los Angeles Williams Institute study published a surprising result earlier this week, finding that Kentucky, of all states, somehow had the highest concentration of LGBT adults.

Over 10 percent of Kentuckians were said to identify as LGBT, a higher percentage than any other state by far.

Only that figure turned out to be an error. After two days, the think tank retracted the claim and lowered its estimate from 359,500 LGBT Kentuckians to less than half that amount, citing initially faulty CDC data that had not been updated before the group began its work.

Read more at The Daily Beast.