•San Francisco: Ranks No. 1 with 12.4 same-sex couples per thousand households, 60% of which are men.
•Boston: No. 4, with 6.9 same-sex couples per thousand households. It also has the largest lesbian community in the nation—60% of those couples are women.
Same-sex couples per thousand households: 6.71
Seattle's gay culture dates back to the 1930s, when the Casino Pool Room in Pioneer Square opened up for gay clientele. The bar paid police protection fees to keep it from being raided. The Double Header—another gay bar that opened around the same time—claims to be Seattle's oldest gay bar still in business. Seattle's strong gay culture remains, too: It's the fifth-gayest city in the country. And it's the sixth-wealthiest in the country, with a median income of $34,293. Big-name companies like Amazon.com and Starbucks—and Microsoft, located in nearby Redmond—have headquarters there.
8. Portland, OR
Same-sex couples per thousand households: 5.85
Boasting both the first comprehensive plan to reduce carbon emissions and the highest number of strip clubs per capita, the quirky city of Portland, Oregon, also has the eighth-highest percentage of same-sex couples. A few of them, no doubt, are green-energy gurus and strippers.
9. San Diego, CA
Same-sex couples per thousand households: 5.76
San Diego is politically conservative and has a huge military population. Coincidentally (or not), it also has a sizeable gay population. We won't ask. Military discrimination in the city already appears to be bad enough
•Washington, DC: No. 15, with 5.28 same-sex couples per thousand households.
•Dallas: No. 19, with 4.88 same-sex couples per thousand households.
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