http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/09/the-gayest-city-in-america Comments On: The Gayest City in America? by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
But... Scottsdale as number 16 and Richmond, VA, as number 19: What?? What!?


Posted by Sandiai]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:51:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Judith]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:07:08 -0800 The Stranger
Are they sure they mean Tacoma? Because I've been to Tacoma. And this is not it.
Posted by Andy]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:06:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by delirian]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:34:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Juan Alfredo]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:49:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fletc3her]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:30:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by john t]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:20:27 -0800 The Stranger
Hipsters are not creative change agents-they are the uncreative mob that has money and wants to buy cool. Creative geniuses populated Seattle in the early 1990's, and then the hipsters came and crashed the party. They also drove up the price of everything and started copying the real bohemians,. repackaging their faux-cool and reselling it, creating a bubble that inevitably bursts when the area becomes so expensive that real artists can't afford it anymore.

Seattle has jumped the shark. the very people who made Seattle cool were priced out of Capitol Hill long ago-that's why the gay community is no longer centered on Cap Hill, and now Seattle Pride is a massive commercial blitz sponsored by Macy's and Amazon.com rather than the small community free-for-all it once was circa 1995. Seattle Pride used to be about GLBT people. Now, it's almost entirely straight people who want to prove that they are not bigots.

Olympia is dead for much the same reason. When you think of an Olympia gay bar, what do you think of? Jake's? There isn't a gay person in Jake's besides the bartending staff. The Urban Onion? Where a tequila sunrise costs 15 bucks and everybody's a middle-aged state employee in a nice suit?

Tacoma is gritty, raw, energetic, creative and alive. The hipsters are here too, but they are fewer in number. My apartment is in the heart of the gay district and I pay 650 a month. With a view of the water. And it's big. How are you doin, Cap Hill?

I can see live music every night of the week at any of a dozen bars where dinner for two with drinks is less than 20 bucks. The door charge at both the Silverstone and the Mix on New Year's Eve? 5 dollars, including champagne. There's a public festival within a few blocks of me twice a month. All my neighbors know each other and we call each other by name. every business in my neighborhood except Tully's and Thriftway is independently owned by somebody that lives in my neighborhood. There's public art all over the place.

So yeah, Tacoma's the gayest city in America.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:38:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by raku]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:36:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rev. Adam McKinney]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:27:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gman5541]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:27:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by hifiandrew]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:35:23 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by ian]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:49:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NotYourStrawMan]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:27:18 -0800 The Stranger
(Okay, fine, Dominic. It was a fun little diversion. I'm not taking it too seriously.)
Posted by floater]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:06:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Adrian Ryan]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:55:32 -0800 The Stranger
@16 - Exactly. I guess a proper list wouldn't really have been talking. Thank god anyone young and naive enough to believe this list probably doesn't have the money to travel.

Also, I see they chose to ignore the all-important "impending sense of doom you feel every time a car slows down while you're walking" index. That'd pretty much take Spokane off the list.
Posted by Dougsf]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:55:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Simply Me]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:47:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Spokan't]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:33:22 -0800 The Stranger While heteros can feel comfy in most modern gay bars, (Seattle's) delightfully small, speedy dive bar Pony is just for the gay guys.Is that legal now too?
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Posted by jnmend]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:13:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tiktok]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:55:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by LukeJoe]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:52:55 -0800 The Stranger
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Population within city limits
(population of >150,000 required)

NYC doesn't make the list because the city is too big to be Gay (or something).

In short, their list heavily favors mid-size cities, which explains my biggest WTF, Colorado Springs.
Posted by This List Makes "Totally Gay" An Insult]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:59 -0800 The Stranger