Salt Lake City: Gayest City in the US

[charlotte49er]

Top 25

1. Salt Lake City, Utah

2. Orlando, Fla.

3. Cambridge, Mass.

4. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

5. Seattle

6. Ann Arbor, Mich.

7. St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minn. (Big Time!)

8. Knoxville, Tenn.

9. Atlanta (After the way the Falcons played in the Playoff, I can understand that!)

10. Grand Rapids, Mich.

11. Little Rock, Ark.

12. Portland, Ore.

13. Austin, Texas

14. Long Beach, Calif.

15. Denver

16. Washington

17. New Orleans

18. San Francisco

19. Pittsburgh

20. Salem, Ore.

21. Madison, Wis.

22. Eugene, Ore.

23. Oakland, Calif.

24. Boston

25. Kansas City, Mo.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/10/10097194-gayest-us-town-surprise-its-salt-lake-city

I worked for IBM in Rochester, MN for 5 1/2 years. There is/was a bar in downtown, Minneapolis that had 2 doors that faced each other. The left door opened to a Gay Bar and right door opened to a straight bar. (Funny how that worked out.) The bar shared a common "bar". But even the bar was split in 1/2 with liquor and mirrors, but had open spaces to pass through.

I had spent this day working with this IBM'er out of Boulder, CO. We were transferring a product from Boulder to Rochester and he was being kind of a "dick" about it. He was staying at the Hilton in Downtown Minneapolis and I dropped him off. He asked me if I knew if there was any good bars, and I told him about the bar just about 2 blocks form the hotel. I told him to make sure he went in the "left door"!

When I picked him up the next day we had a good laugh. No sooner than he walked in, a guy bought him a drink. He realized, guys were dancing with guys and girls were dancing with girls.

He thanked his new "friend" for the drink and moved to the other side. After that, he wasn't such a dick. :D

[mr beauxjangles]

Similar story:

There's a bar just down the street from my place in Atlanta called Bulldogs. It's a predominantly african-american gay bar. I have directed many a UGA frat boy there in my days.

[cookinwithgas]

Theres a reason Salt Lake is #1, Mormon guys can marry all the women up.

[Woodcookedbbq]

I thought for sure San Francisco would have been in the top 5.

[Hawk]

  cookinwithgas said:

Theres a reason Salt Lake is #1, Mormon guys can marry all the women up.

multiple wives or turning gay....that's a coin toss!

[Claws]

I assume Salt will be visiting there anyday now.

[Claws]

Ann Arbor isn't gay either.

It's the home of the BIG HOUSE!!

[Kramerica]

No love for Asheville?

[Mvp2014]

I was in Orlando a few weeks ago and I can vouch for it being pretty gay.

[TwinkleToes]

Asheville's pretty gay....

[Cat]

Sweet, I'm going there in a few weeks maybe I can get some action.

[Panthro]

So thats why SLC is #1

  Quote

Rather than rely on the U.S. Census tabulation of gay and lesbian populations, which inevitably yield San Francisco as No. 1, The Advocate used different measures to establish "per capita queerness" — including a city's number of teams entered in the Gay Softball World Series, gay bookstores, openly gay elected officials and semifinalists in the International Mr. Leather Contest, which is held every year in Chicago.

[Guest Irv]

considering SLC is home to the best selling sex lube so im not surprised.

[charlotte49er]

  TwinkleToes said:

Asheville's pretty gay....

Asheville's Dyke Central!

When I went to Belle Chere a few years ago with my GF.

I never have seen so many women in Birks with short hair and a flannel shirt in my life!

I turned to my GF who was/is Bi and told her she better not return to the room with one of the "women" wearing Birks! I told her IF she was going to pick one, at least pick one that at Least looked like a woman and not a lumber jack!