I'm gay and a native Bostonian who now lives in San Francisco and has been to 2/3 these places. And this list is totally bullshit.
No place I've ever been are as pervasively gay as San Francisco or Provincetown. Gay is part of the culture in these places. The Advocate's methodology obviously doesn't capture this, and it's hard to take their measures seriously if these cities don't appear somewhere in the list.
Instead, I agree they seem to have arrived at gay islands, where enough concentration is achieved only because the hostility of the surrounding areas makes those cities a catchment.
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No place I've ever been are as pervasively gay as San Francisco or Provincetown. Gay is part of the culture in these places. The Advocate's methodology obviously doesn't capture this, and it's hard to take their measures seriously if these cities don't appear somewhere in the list.
Instead, I agree they seem to have arrived at gay islands, where enough concentration is achieved only because the hostility of the surrounding areas makes those cities a catchment.