Read the full article here The Press Democrat…. The rankings take no account of gay single populations. Portland, Maine Boston and Seattle rounded out the top five. His results were published this week in an article called “America’s Top 20 Gayest Cities” that appeared on the website The Daily Beast. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey. The statistics were compiled by Gary Gates, a researcher at UCLA’s Williams Institute, a think tank on sexual-orientation law, who based his findings on data from the U.S. Sixty-three percent of Sonoma County’s same-sex couples were men. The Santa Rosa Metropolitan Area - in effect Sonoma County - was No.2 with 7.63 gay couples per 1,000 households, a rate 56 percent greater than the national average. Not surprisingly, San Francisco led the list with 12.4 same-sex couples per 1,000 households. That’s according to a demographer at the University of California Los Angeles, who crunched census numbers to find areas with the highest percentage of residents living in same-sex relationships. Sonoma County is the second “gayest” metropolitan area in the nation.
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