These Are Not The Gayest Cities in America  Not in this order,
at least. In a sorta-sociological article on The Daily Beast
today, Richard Florida documents what he believes to be the the
20 gayest cities in the country. Are his conclusions correct?
Eh, not really.  As Choire Sicha points out on /b/'s next
target, The Awl, Florida is using a strange metric. He's going
by number of same-sex couples living together. This measures the
number of settled gays and lesbians, but does that really make a
city gay? Shouldn't the gayest cities be the ones that feel the
most culturally queer? Florida's number one and probably
everyone's number one is San Francisco, duhhh, but number two is
Petaluma? The New York metro area is number eleven? Florida, no.
Where are Atlanta and New Orleans, the gay capitals of the
south? Why is Miami number 20 instead of, uh, like number three?
Why are we even bothering to measure such an unmeasurable thing?
Maybe determining this all by number of domestic couples is a
(noble) attempt to n