Posted on 01/14/2011 3:05:43 PM PST by MplsSteve
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.
What makes Minneapolis so gay, so suddenly? The Advocate changed its criteria for 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 dot.com [dating site] profiles per city, the number of gay elected officials, lesbian bars, gay-friendly congregations and gay yellow page listings."
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The guys in the Minneapolis band “Husker Du” were gay as well.
The clothes were as tacky as they could be. Leisure suits, loud colors, plaids, yeessshhh!
Don’t forget the ‘70’s hair. Yick! Kind of like liberal’s hair nowadays.
Thanks.
Like i did not have enough reasons to never visit this wacked out state.
I live in MA so thats saying a lot.
From what i’ve read those Somalis are our highest paid welfare group in the country as well.
I was in Mpls a few years ago and was really taken aback, I mean astounded, with the number of homos there.
DC (nearest big city to us) is pretty gay too.
Ann Arbor and Ferndale have to be up there near the top of the list. A lot of homos there.
But why then did you vacation in The Cities? Hmmmm?
never been there...only place I’ve ever been to in MN is New Ulm...
Ah, the Schells beer fest. :-)
actually no..my sister goes to college there...
Loring Park??
I don’t know where they live. I don’t visit.
They’re militant lesbians who know I’m a conservative so they choose to stay away from me.
Minneapolis (and I know it fairly well, as wifey hails from the area) can’t hold a candle to our local Palm Springs....now number one in Syphyllis in the United States, and therefore likely to lead in the ‘gay plague’ (altho such stats continue to be conveniently scrubbed). They have ‘pride parades’ there a couple of times a month.
The first time I went out to Minneapolis in 1976, for a week’s training session, a friend told me..”stay the hell off of Hennepin Avenue..”
In the early 80s, my two young sons and I set out from central Illinois, to find the source of the Mississippi (like it was lost). We found the source and also learned that it is chilly in Northern Minnesota at night even in mid summer. We also learned that Minnesota has some humongous mosquitoes and very many of them.
Whether the mosquitoes were homosexual or not, I cannot attest to.
Itasca state park; now that sir, is God’s country!
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