San Diego only \u2018gayest\u2019 city in state<\/p>\n
Por Christy Scannell<\/p>\n
Editor SDUN<\/p>\n
The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine, named San Diego the 14th \u201cgayest city\u201d in America in its February issue. San Diego was the only California city included in the list of 15, defeating Albuquerque but falling behind Atlanta (#1); Burlington, Vt. (#2) and even Iowa City (#3) and Portland, Maine (#8).<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Diego has always been more bi-friendly, mellower, less snooty and a place to which L.A. gays frequently escape,\u201d the magazine said.<\/p>\n
Chris Shaw, owner of Hillcrest restaurants Urban Mo\u2019s, Baja Betty\u2019s and Gossip Grill, said he isn\u2019t surprised San Diego was recognized as gay friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just a comfortable city \u2013 everyone feels welcome here,\u201d he said. \u201cSan Diego is a fun town to be in, anything goes, and it\u2019s not about just standing and posing. It\u2019s a great environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Tom Luhnow, chief executive officer of the Greater San Diego Business Association, argued that San Diego deserved greater recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think we should have ranked higher,\u201d he said, \u201csince we have the second largest gay and lesbian chamber of commerce in the country, two openly gay men serving on the City Council, a lesbian district attorney, a lesbian state senator, and our previous fire chief was lesbian, not to mention our wonderful mayor, Jerry Sanders, just testified in support of gay marriage in the Prop. 8 trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
The magazine said cities were ranked using an \u201cadmittedly subjective\u201d point system that analyzed same-sex couple households per capita, status of statewide marriage equality, number of gay elected officials, number of gay bars and \u201ccruising spots\u201d per capita and the number of gay films in Netflix subscriber favorites among other criteria.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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