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And the gayest city in America is... Salt Lake City? Really? Was California asleep during the voting?
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AbbeySomeone
2012-01-09 08:36:57 PM
How did they get the latent religious people to participate in the poll?
Jamdug!
2012-01-09 08:37:54 PM
And John Amaechi played for the Jazz. Coincidence?
thomps
2012-01-09 08:56:18 PM
i'm pretty sure the pronouncement was tongue in cheek. but mormons aren't very well known for their knowledge of assplay i guess.
Mugato
2012-01-09 08:56:20 PM
Was the unlikely tag out getting a dutch rudder?
vernonFL
2012-01-09 09:00:12 PM
Provincetown is the gayest city. West Hollywood is pretty gay too.
WI241TH
2012-01-09 09:20:02 PM
I thought Minneapolis won this like 3 months ago
GAT_00
2012-01-09 09:23:03 PM
Here's
the actual link from earlier today that shows how ridiculous their method of determination was.
Asa Phelps
2012-01-09 09:34:14 PM
The thing about mormon culture is that it's perfectly OK for a guy to be really effeminate, and talk about their feelings a lot, and have hobbies like ballroom dancing or knitting without anyone suggesting that they are gay.
The other thing about mormon culture is that it is not at all OK to be gay. Like your entire family might disown you not ok.
So, in utah, gay guys just find a chick who doesn't like sex very much - pretty easy to find around here, and I'm not saying closeted lesbian either, just ladies who are SURE that enjoying sex is a sin - and get married and have a bunch of kids.
Some of them eventually come out, some of them don't.
So, if you were to find out which cities have a high proportion of gay people with natural born children, Salt Lake City would be near the top of the list, if not at the top.
Basically, if there's a genetic component to homosexual identity, mormons have it in spades.
Three Crooked Squirrels
2012-01-09 09:35:59 PM
SLC represent!
SLC farker here. Not a native Utahn. Spent most of my life in CT, upstate NY, rural VA and Nashville. This state is ridiculously conservative, but SLC proper is an oasis. Quite honestly, there's not a lot to do, but inside the boundaries of SLC proper, it's more progressive than Nashville. I can only compare it to my own experiences, but I am guessing the high ranking comes from the contrast to the rest of the state. For example, to say San Francisco is 2000% more tolerant than San Jose is hyperbole, to say SLC is 2000% more tolerant than Provo is not.
sariq
2012-01-09 09:36:41 PM
Austin is *way* more gay than Portland.
I_Am_Weasel
2012-01-09 09:49:52 PM
thomps
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i'm pretty sure the pronouncement was tongue in cheek. but mormons aren't very well known for their knowledge of assplay i guess.
I believe this is what Santorum called Mormon Morm action.
penthesilea
2012-01-09 09:53:14 PM
FTFA:
Numbers from the 2010 Census shows Salt Lake City and Utah have had an uptick in the number of households headed by same-sex couples. In fact, Salt Lake City ranks No. 3 nationally among mid-size cities for its rate of gay and lesbian couples
Gay married folks have to move *somewhere* to raise their families. I'm guessing SLC is a fairly family friendly place.
violentsalvation
2012-01-09 10:03:46 PM
GAT_00
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Here's the actual link from earlier today that shows how ridiculous their method of determination was.
I was just about to post it. I don't see what was wrong with that thread.
GAT_00
2012-01-09 10:11:44 PM
violentsalvation
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GAT_00: Here's the actual link from earlier today that shows how ridiculous their method of determination was.
I was just about to post it. I don't see what was wrong with that thread.
[i798.photobucket.com image 500x276]
Who knows. Guessing what goes green and what doesn't is just impossible to guess some days, particularly when that one had a far better link.
AirForceVet
2012-01-09 10:35:32 PM
I'm not surprised Salt Lake City is the gayest city in the USA. They have a very active GLBT community with a serious Pride celebration downtown every year. However, the further you go from SLC, the tolerance drops exponentially.
I find it refreshing here in SLC after living in Huntsville, AL where you never let anyone know you're gay openly. You can lose your job, get beat up, run off the road in some parts. And Huntsville doesn't do Pride celebrations either. Sad to see so much hate in the Bible Belt.
/Still temporarily living in SLC for several more months.
dopeydwarf
2012-01-09 10:54:35 PM
Don't ask, don't tell.
cretinbob
2012-01-09 11:12:47 PM
You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
AbbeySomeone
2012-01-09 11:37:39 PM
cretinbob
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You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
They're no competition for entry to their heaven.
sn82
2012-01-10 12:02:05 AM
Those mormonettes have really got to stop showing their ankles to all the other women.
Allen262
2012-01-10 12:02:35 AM
Subby, most of CA is high on "medical marijuana".
Trackball
2012-01-10 12:06:27 AM
cretinbob
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You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
skinink
2012-01-10 12:07:55 AM
There's nothing going on. That's what I saw when I looked out over the city: nothing. How the Mormon settlers looked upon this valley and felt that it was the promised land is beyond me. I don't know, maybe it looked different back then.
Fluorescent Testicle
2012-01-10 12:08:48 AM
thomps
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i'm pretty sure the pronouncement was
tongue in cheek
. but mormons aren't very well known for their knowledge of assplay i guess.
[beavis_and_butthead.jpg]
Miss Stein
2012-01-10 12:10:59 AM
Trackball
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cretinbob: You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
/you cannot be farking serious
Omnivorous
2012-01-10 12:11:11 AM
This must be part of the Ogilvy & Mather (you have to remember they were apologists for the Roman Catholics about 10 years ago) Mormon ad campaign. Because I've seen gay communities and the Mormons were sending big Mitt Romney $$$ against CA proposition 8.
Here in Seattle they just send 12-year olds around to collect signatures against gay marriage.
But it is okay for Romney's grandparents to abandon the U.S. for Mexico rather than obey U.S. marriage laws. At least until Mexican politics arranged for the traitors to return.
/Gentile here.
FunkOut
2012-01-10 12:11:26 AM
Trackball
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cretinbob: You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
What was up with that "kill other settlers and take their wives" things?
I bet it had to do with Jell-O.
TomD9938
2012-01-10 12:13:00 AM
FTA as evidence of a large gay population.
the availability of nude yoga classes
Stereo-type much?
How were gag-ball sales over the course of the last year?
bravian
2012-01-10 12:14:38 AM
You would be surprised how much Mormon ass you can get in Salt Lake City.
/drtfa
//didn't need to - spent a lot of time in Utah
sherylgi
2012-01-10 12:15:48 AM
We're all sa proud here in Mormoidland that SLC has finally gotten recognized for being *fabulous*!
WhiteAndNerdy
2012-01-10 12:20:21 AM
Asa Phelps
:
The thing about mormon culture is that it's perfectly OK for a guy to be really effeminate, and talk about their feelings a lot, and have hobbies like ballroom dancing or knitting without anyone suggesting that they are gay.
The other thing about mormon culture is that it is not at all OK to be gay. Like your entire family might disown you not ok.
So, in utah, gay guys just find a chick who doesn't like sex very much - pretty easy to find around here, and I'm not saying closeted lesbian either, just ladies who are SURE that enjoying sex is a sin - and get married and have a bunch of kids.
Some of them eventually come out, some of them don't.
So, if you were to find out which cities have a high proportion of gay people with natural born children, Salt Lake City would be near the top of the list, if not at the top.
Basically, if there's a genetic component to homosexual identity, mormons have it in spades.
I never looked at it that way, but it makes sense since there's so much repression among Mormons. I used to live in Salt Lake, and I knew a few gay folks who had grown up Mormon and fled to Salt Lake as soon as they could. My theory was that if you're gay and you're from Utah/Wyoming/Idaho/Norhtern NV, Salt Lake is the nearest big city, and the only liberal outpost between Denver and San Francisco. So geographically, it was destined to turn into a gay magnet.
/a hot, throbbing gay magnet
fusillade762
2012-01-10 12:22:15 AM
The survey ignores obvious picks such as New York and San Francisco to rank "less expected" places
Well there's your explanation. It's a list of "The Gayest Cities in America"*
*excluding New York and San Francisco
Antagonism
2012-01-10 12:22:41 AM
Trackball
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cretinbob: You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
Yeah, like the Mormon funding of prop 8 in California. That was real tolerant.
Cranialsodomy
2012-01-10 12:23:11 AM
All the gay Mormons go to Skagway, Alaska during the summer. Trust me on this.
digitalpirate
2012-01-10 12:26:50 AM
This is old news if you live in SLC. Mormons don't live in SLC. They have been chased out by us homosexuals.
Dafatone
2012-01-10 12:28:49 AM
WhiteAndNerdy
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I never looked at it that way, but it makes sense since there's so much repression among Mormons. I used to live in Salt Lake, and I knew a few gay folks who had grown up Mormon and fled to Salt Lake as soon as they could. My theory was that if you're gay and you're from Utah/Wyoming/Idaho/Norhtern NV, Salt Lake is the nearest big city, and the only liberal outpost between Denver and San Francisco. So geographically, it was destined to turn into a gay magnet.
/a hot, throbbing gay magnet
This is precisely it. I spent a bit of time in SLC, and as I put it to everyone who goes "utah!?!?", all the cool and interesting and alternative people from all of Utah move to SLC, making it at least pretty cool.
dopeydwarf
2012-01-10 12:28:50 AM
Miss Stein
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Trackball: cretinbob: You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
[i759.photobucket.com image 263x192]
/you cannot be farking serious
Couldn't have said it better myself. You do realize Mormons believe that black people are cursed by the mark of Cain simply due to the color of their skin, right?
T-Bone42
2012-01-10 12:30:16 AM
TomD9938
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FTA as evidence of a large gay population.
the availability of nude yoga classes
Stereo-type much?
How were gag-ball sales over the course of the last year?
Is nude yoga a stereotypically gay thing? Do straights not like nude yoga? Is "nude yoga" not what it sounds like?
digitalpirate
2012-01-10 12:31:38 AM
On a side note...what's with ALL the gay guys trying to hold on to their LDS roots. I mean, you won't drink coffee, buy you'll attend orgies? I'm finding this to be pretty common here in Utah.
thomps
2012-01-10 12:32:24 AM
T-Bone42
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Is "nude yoga" not what it sounds like?
depends. does it sound like anonymous homosexual sodomy?
The Angry Hand of God
2012-01-10 12:32:55 AM
If all the men didn't stake claim on 8 women a piece, it probably wouldn't be so gay.
The Angry Hand of God
2012-01-10 12:33:34 AM
thomps
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T-Bone42: Is "nude yoga" not what it sounds like?
depends. does it sound like anonymous homosexual sodomy?
Nude yoga sounds nothing like Tuesday.
gibbon1
2012-01-10 12:34:09 AM
Allen262
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Subby, most of CA is high on "medical marijuana".
That and California is post gay. Like no one cares anymore.
I run into gay men who don't like being identified as gay because they don't want the stereotyping or the baggage. As in if I'm 'gay' then I'm expected to put on that accent and talk about clothes and food instead of Formula 1 racing. My women friends then wake me up at 3am to talk about the latest douche boyfriend of theirs. Fark that.
moothemagiccow
2012-01-10 12:35:26 AM
admittedly "subjective" criteria, including teams in the Gay Softball World Series
Ok, I'll give you that.
and the availability of nude yoga classes
because nudists are automatically gay? or is yoga gay?
to anti-discrimination protections
for everyone or just gay people?
and openly LGBT elected officials
i could go either way on this
marfar
2012-01-10 12:35:27 AM
My girlfriend and I traveled from San Diego to Salt Lake to visit her mother. The sandwich shop next to our hotel had a rack that was entirely gay magazines and newspapers, so I'm not shocked to see this.
moothemagiccow
2012-01-10 12:36:10 AM
digitalpirate
:
On a side note...what's with ALL the gay guys trying to hold on to their LDS roots. I mean, you won't drink coffee, buy you'll attend orgies? I'm finding this to be pretty common here in Utah.
coffee's farking gross man
digitalpirate
2012-01-10 12:38:23 AM
The Angry Hand of God
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If all the men didn't stake claim on 8 women a piece, it probably wouldn't be so gay.
Mainstream mormons haven't practiced polygamy in over 100 years
Try again
culebra
2012-01-10 12:39:08 AM
Can you folks maybe get crackin' on delivering Utah for the Democrats this year? That would be farking hilarious and I would laugh a lot.
Sincerely,
culebra
moothemagiccow
2012-01-10 12:39:36 AM
dopeydwarf
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Miss Stein: Trackball: cretinbob: You'd be surprised how many gays there are in the Mormon states, not because Mormons are gay, but because they tend to not care if other people are I guess.
The World could learn a lot from Mormons when it comes to tolerating other people's differences.
[i759.photobucket.com image 263x192]
/you cannot be farking serious
Couldn't have said it better myself. You do realize Mormons believe that black people are cursed by the mark of Cain simply due to the color of their skin, right?
I hate when people say things like this. Am I to believe that every mormon subscribes to the wacky mormon newsletter and always agrees with everything on it?
The Angry Hand of God
2012-01-10 12:40:51 AM
digitalpirate
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The Angry Hand of God: If all the men didn't stake claim on 8 women a piece, it probably wouldn't be so gay.
Mainstream mormons haven't practiced polygamy in over 100 years
Try again
Dude, I have seen Big Love. The television doesn't lie. Anyway, what is to say they aren't all hipster Mormons nowadays?
picodenico
2012-01-10 12:41:34 AM
ahhhh SLUT...
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