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Where's the gayest spot in America...and possibly the entire world?
Today, cities in the United States are being ranked by what's called a gay-index. The number is based on a scale of 100 (100 being the national average). Therefore, if your city has a gay index of 63, then it is considered 37% below the national average. Likewise, a city with a gay-index of 190 is 90% higher than the national average.
To give you an idea of where todays gays & lesbians are residing in America, the following cities in the WEST are listed below.
West:
Yes America, Palm Springs CA has quickly grown to be a center for gays & lesbians in CA. This doesn't mean that Palm Springs has the MOST gay/lesbian people...it just means that, per capita, Palm Springs wins by ratio of men:men and/or women:women households. San Francisco is still heavily populated. Being the party town it is, you'd think that Vegas would attract a more alternative lifestyle. Nope. Colorado Springs surprises me too. Only an hour or so away from Denver and it's second to last on our list of cities in the west.
Moving on to the Midwest. The only state gays & lesbians seem to be thriving and surviving in our Bible Belt is TX. Comparatively speaking, living in the Midwest is about "average" for the United states. Notice that our #2 Dallas (196) in the midwest is comparable to living in Salt Lake City (193), #6 in the West.
Midwest:
Making our way North East, we have the majority of the gay & lesbian community flocking to the coast - the far north east coast at that. Notice that here, we see Provincetown (a.k.a. "P-Town") with the highest gay index of any U.S. city. Boston, Portland (Maine), and Washington D.C. all have relatively high indexes as well.
North East:
Like the Midwest, the NE was pretty sparse - except for a few hot-spots. Finally, the deep south contains several cities many gays & lesbians call home.
South:
This information has been compiled and is available at http://www.epodunk.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.184.240.67 ( talk • contribs)
I don't like the general tone, seems much hyping involved, and a monolithic viewpoint of gays as a "community." It should be re-written as to mention the gay component, but not the rah-rah extreme currently in the article. Many gays don't think highly of P-Town, you know, due to its assocations with rampant sex and drug abuse.
Commercial Street gained numerous cafes, leather shops, head shops -- every imaginable type of hip small business blossomed and flourished.
As a brit, the term "head shop" is unkown to me and is not in common usage here. perhaps a wider, more encompasing term could be used? -- Brideshead 17:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I wonder about In the mid-1970s members of the gay community began moving to Provincetown. Does this skip over earlier 20th century gays in a way that would be offensive to today's sensibilities?
The main notable examples that occur to me are Djuna Barnes, Tennessee Williams, Charles Demuth ( more info re Demuth in Provincetown), Marsden Hartley, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Mabel Dodge?, and Louise Bryant (okay, maybe, Bryant only came out after leaving P-town with a man, but she made a splash here before that). I have certainly read somewhere that Williams had partners in town, and I would suspect that Barnes did as well. I haven't done any research yet looking for other examples and am just writing off the top of my head. I suppose if there are none, it doesn't matter. But I'm curious anyway. Can anyone provide additional examples of a historical gay presence in town prior to 1970? -- Peter 15:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the Pamets were a tribe in the Truro area and the Putanonamets in the Wellfleet area and that the Nausets were mainly from the north of Chatham north through Eastham and that there was not a large Native American presence in Provincetown before european settlement. Is that correct? Is it historically accurate to say that the Nausets were in Provincetown? I suppose it might be almost as accurate or precise as saying that the Wampanoags were in Provincetown at that time. I'm not arguing for a change - rather just pleading for historical justification. Peter ( talk) 11:58, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
This paragraph under "Culture" seems to aim at making an indirect political point:
In 2003, Provincetown received a $1.95 million low interest loan from the Rural Development program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help rebuild the town's MacMillan Pier. It primarily serves tourists and high-speed ferries that charge their passengers up to $45 per one-way trip. Between 2004 and 2007, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum[10] received four Rural Development grants and loans totalling $3 million to increase the museum's space, add climate-controlled facilities, renovate a historic sea captain's house (the Hargood House) and cover cost overruns.[11] As the mission of the Rural Development program is "To increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for all rural Americans",[12] the USDA considered Provincetown's residents in the 2000s to still be rural and to still require such federal assistance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.222.14 ( talk) 21:02, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Would anybody object if I removed the entire Provincetown in popular culture section? It's largely unsourced, and those bits that are sourced don't add anything of significance to the article. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:34, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
P-Town was identified as a nexus of the AIDS outbreak in the early '80s, catastrophically affected, much as were Key West (where there is a similar memorial), San Francisco, Fire Island, and Greenwich Village. I'm reverting the erasure of the identification and the placement of the memorial, which are referred to even in the titles of the citations. Even searching the terms "AIDS"+ Provincetown" results in dozens of titles in Google books. Removing the connection between the locus and the virus would be as dubious as removing Wuhan from COVID-19 (or "Salem" from "witch trials') Please look for a consensus before reverting once more. Activist ( talk)
References
I've added a 'dubious' tag to this claim because, as a Midwesterner, that title would seem clearly to belong to Fire Island. But perhaps their relative renown is different within the region? Walkersam ( talk) 23:38, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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Where's the gayest spot in America...and possibly the entire world?
Today, cities in the United States are being ranked by what's called a gay-index. The number is based on a scale of 100 (100 being the national average). Therefore, if your city has a gay index of 63, then it is considered 37% below the national average. Likewise, a city with a gay-index of 190 is 90% higher than the national average.
To give you an idea of where todays gays & lesbians are residing in America, the following cities in the WEST are listed below.
West:
Yes America, Palm Springs CA has quickly grown to be a center for gays & lesbians in CA. This doesn't mean that Palm Springs has the MOST gay/lesbian people...it just means that, per capita, Palm Springs wins by ratio of men:men and/or women:women households. San Francisco is still heavily populated. Being the party town it is, you'd think that Vegas would attract a more alternative lifestyle. Nope. Colorado Springs surprises me too. Only an hour or so away from Denver and it's second to last on our list of cities in the west.
Moving on to the Midwest. The only state gays & lesbians seem to be thriving and surviving in our Bible Belt is TX. Comparatively speaking, living in the Midwest is about "average" for the United states. Notice that our #2 Dallas (196) in the midwest is comparable to living in Salt Lake City (193), #6 in the West.
Midwest:
Making our way North East, we have the majority of the gay & lesbian community flocking to the coast - the far north east coast at that. Notice that here, we see Provincetown (a.k.a. "P-Town") with the highest gay index of any U.S. city. Boston, Portland (Maine), and Washington D.C. all have relatively high indexes as well.
North East:
Like the Midwest, the NE was pretty sparse - except for a few hot-spots. Finally, the deep south contains several cities many gays & lesbians call home.
South:
This information has been compiled and is available at http://www.epodunk.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.184.240.67 ( talk • contribs)
I don't like the general tone, seems much hyping involved, and a monolithic viewpoint of gays as a "community." It should be re-written as to mention the gay component, but not the rah-rah extreme currently in the article. Many gays don't think highly of P-Town, you know, due to its assocations with rampant sex and drug abuse.
Commercial Street gained numerous cafes, leather shops, head shops -- every imaginable type of hip small business blossomed and flourished.
As a brit, the term "head shop" is unkown to me and is not in common usage here. perhaps a wider, more encompasing term could be used? -- Brideshead 17:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I wonder about In the mid-1970s members of the gay community began moving to Provincetown. Does this skip over earlier 20th century gays in a way that would be offensive to today's sensibilities?
The main notable examples that occur to me are Djuna Barnes, Tennessee Williams, Charles Demuth ( more info re Demuth in Provincetown), Marsden Hartley, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Mabel Dodge?, and Louise Bryant (okay, maybe, Bryant only came out after leaving P-town with a man, but she made a splash here before that). I have certainly read somewhere that Williams had partners in town, and I would suspect that Barnes did as well. I haven't done any research yet looking for other examples and am just writing off the top of my head. I suppose if there are none, it doesn't matter. But I'm curious anyway. Can anyone provide additional examples of a historical gay presence in town prior to 1970? -- Peter 15:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Image:Ptown mass flag.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot ( talk) 04:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the Pamets were a tribe in the Truro area and the Putanonamets in the Wellfleet area and that the Nausets were mainly from the north of Chatham north through Eastham and that there was not a large Native American presence in Provincetown before european settlement. Is that correct? Is it historically accurate to say that the Nausets were in Provincetown? I suppose it might be almost as accurate or precise as saying that the Wampanoags were in Provincetown at that time. I'm not arguing for a change - rather just pleading for historical justification. Peter ( talk) 11:58, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
This paragraph under "Culture" seems to aim at making an indirect political point:
In 2003, Provincetown received a $1.95 million low interest loan from the Rural Development program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help rebuild the town's MacMillan Pier. It primarily serves tourists and high-speed ferries that charge their passengers up to $45 per one-way trip. Between 2004 and 2007, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum[10] received four Rural Development grants and loans totalling $3 million to increase the museum's space, add climate-controlled facilities, renovate a historic sea captain's house (the Hargood House) and cover cost overruns.[11] As the mission of the Rural Development program is "To increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for all rural Americans",[12] the USDA considered Provincetown's residents in the 2000s to still be rural and to still require such federal assistance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.222.14 ( talk) 21:02, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Would anybody object if I removed the entire Provincetown in popular culture section? It's largely unsourced, and those bits that are sourced don't add anything of significance to the article. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:34, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
P-Town was identified as a nexus of the AIDS outbreak in the early '80s, catastrophically affected, much as were Key West (where there is a similar memorial), San Francisco, Fire Island, and Greenwich Village. I'm reverting the erasure of the identification and the placement of the memorial, which are referred to even in the titles of the citations. Even searching the terms "AIDS"+ Provincetown" results in dozens of titles in Google books. Removing the connection between the locus and the virus would be as dubious as removing Wuhan from COVID-19 (or "Salem" from "witch trials') Please look for a consensus before reverting once more. Activist ( talk)
References
I've added a 'dubious' tag to this claim because, as a Midwesterner, that title would seem clearly to belong to Fire Island. But perhaps their relative renown is different within the region? Walkersam ( talk) 23:38, 5 November 2022 (UTC)