That's right folks. In a new study, Seattle comes in as the second "gayest" city in the U.S. with about 13 percent of the population "identifying as" gay, lesbian or bisexual. These numbers does not include all those who are in the closet. Portland, my home town, comes in as the eighth "gayest" city with 8.8% of the population that is out and open about their sexual orientation.

Of course San Francisco comes in as THE "gayest" city with 15.4%. Here is the list of the top 10 gayest cities in the U.S. according to the U.S. census data:

From The Seattle Times:
The study's findings are drawn from newly released U.S. census data on same-sex households showing that between 2000 and 2005, the reported number of gay-couple households increased by 30 percent in the United States and by 50 percent in Washington state.

Read how they came up with these numbers and read the entire article at The Seattle Times.

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