Jason Shaw
Fresh from the revelations of homophobic Police Chiefs in Palm Springs, comes news that in fact it wasn’t the gayest city in America! Nope, Minneapolis may have dropped a notch on the "Most Literate City" list this week, but the metropolis picked up a new title: Gayest City in America. That's according to the Advocate, the national gay news magazine based in Los Angeles.
The city came from nowhere to snatch the tiara from last year's winner, Atlanta, which slid to No. 7.
"This was Minneapolis' first appearance [on the second annual list], and it shot right to the top," said Matthew Breen, executive editor for the Advocate Magazine, what makes Minneapolis so gay, so suddenly? Well, that’s all pretty much down to the picking and meandering ideals of The Advocate, who change the criteria this year when making the list,
Breen said. "Last year, we looked at same-sex couples, gay-marriage equality, gay bars and the number of gay films on Netflix favorites pages. This year we looked at the number of dating site profiles per city, the number of gay elected officials, lesbian bars, gay-friendly congregations and gay yellow page listings."
The Gayest City list is all a bit of fun, apparently, but Minneapolis is a pretty gay-friendly city in many substantive ways, "We've been saying that for years, that Minneapolis is the gayest city," said Stephen Rocheford, president and CEO of locally based Lavender Magazine, told local news source, Star Tribune. “Minneapolis has the fourth-highest gay population, 12.5 percent, of major cities, according to U.S. Census Data” he noted.
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