City We’re Number Two
posted by November 17 at 11:04 AM
onIt’s official: Seattle is the second-gayest city in America.
“Among the 50 largest U.S. cities, Seattle is second only to San Francisco in the percentage of residents identifying themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual,” reports the Seattle Times, citing a new study conducted by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
As the Times reports:
The findings do not necessarily suggest the number of gay people and couples is growing dramatically. Rather, say the study’s author and others, the findings may have more to do with people becoming more comfortable about disclosing their sexual orientation in government surveys.
“Basically, we’re looking at the size of America’s closet,” said researcher Gary Gates, whose top-ten list of out-and-proudest U.S. cities features Portland, Oregon at number eight and Manhattan not at all.
Full story here.
(And yes, Savage put a mention of this in a post yesterday.)
Comments
What about transgendered and genderqueer people? I doubt they'd refer to themselves as gay or lesbian...
Number two ain't bad when number one is SF. That's like being the second best baller next to Michael Jordan. Yes, SF is the MJ of gay cities.
Where is st louis? 287th :)
What about NYC or LA? Strange that they were not on the list.
Didn't Dan report on this yesterday? Why, yes he did. Do you read your own blog?
We may be number two, but we TRY HARDER!
Or was that we are harder?
I never could get those straight ...
[actually, I am straight, but I think it's cool!]
So if any "Freemarket" ecconomics were right there would be more than one lesbian bar in Seattle.
Well, there may not be many lesbian bars, but there are a lot of bars with lesbians.
Same thing, really.
I had no idea that Atlanta's gay community was so big. Jesus, I'm really out of the loop. They're only .1% under us, for chrissakes.
Did Denver make the top ten just on the basis of Ted Haggard's dates?
I also don't see how in the hell they can make any claims as to the size of the bisexual population based on this study. There's a whole HELL of a lot more bisexuals than this study would count.
Also, what's with all the mentions of Jesus in my last comment? God dammit! Jesus H Christ!
I'll try to be gayer. Maybe next year we can win.
I don't think they meant "gay" in the "homosexual" sense. I think they meant Seattle is gay in the capri-pants-on-boys gay, and it ain't nuthin to be proud of.
I have a great idea on how Seattle can be #1 next year. Once the Sonics leave, we can demolish all of the basketball hardwood floors, put in a giant mud pit and start an all male mudwrestling league. Then we can make our sister city Manchester England (the gay village part of it)
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