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DC: The Gayest Place in America?
Seems that gay establishments have spread out profusely from their original home base of Dupont Circle for a while now...
Quote:WASHINGTON — My earliest sense of what it meant to be gay in the nation’s capital came more than a decade ago when I was a summer intern. I was a few blocks from Union Station when a congressman walked by and gave the reporters I was standing with a big, floppy wave hello.
“You know what they say about him,” said one of them, the inflection of his voice rising to a squeak so there could be no mistaking what he meant.
I didn’t know, in fact. I wasn’t even sure what the congressman’s name was. But the message was as clear as it was unsettling for a 20-year-old struggling with his own sexual identity: There were plenty of gay people in Washington, even at the highest levels of government. But instead of being widely accepted, they were usually whispered about derisively, suspect characters to be mocked and maligned.
Today, having moved here 10 months ago after six and a half years of living in Manhattan, I hardly recognize that closeted, often intolerant Washington I first glimpsed as a 20-year-old. I now live in the gayest place in America.
But don’t take my word for it. Consider what surveys by Gallup and the Census Bureau have found about the gay population here. When the District of Columbia is compared with the 50 states, it has the highest percentage of adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to Gallup. At 10 percent, that is double the percentage in the state that ranks No. 2, Hawaii, and nearly triple the overall national average of 3.5 percent.
The Census Bureau looked at where the highest percentage of same-sex couple households were and also found that the District of Columbia ranked far higher than the 50 states, with 4 percent. The national average is just under 1 percent.
One of my first observations about my new city was the throngs of gay men I would see over the course of a typical day all over town — walking their dogs in my neighborhood before work, riding the Metro, working in the halls of Congress.
I’m not the first to have noticed this change.
“There’s an openly gay presence that makes you think you’re in the Castro or West Hollywood, and it wasn’t always the case,” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general during the Clinton administration who was one of several openly gay people appointed by President Clinton, told me. “The federal government was a nightmare for homosexuals for decades, and then it wasn’t.”
Such ubiquity isn’t just an abundance of gay bars, though there are at least six within walking distance of my house in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington. On the days I make the 20-minute walk from home to my office near the White House, I will pass one example after another of this city’s thriving gay economy: a Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams furniture store; a clothing retailer whose window displays regularly feature bare-torso, well-endowed mannequins in nothing but tiny briefs; three CrossFit gyms; the offices of two gay newspapers, The Washington Blade and Metro Weekly (most cities cannot even sustain one); a bathhouse; and the national headquarters for the Human Rights Campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/fashio....html?_r=0
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RE: DC: The Gayest Place in America?
You'd be hard-pressed to beat West Hollywood.
Mildly related anecdote:
When I was dating my last girlfriend, there was this IRT that was a hardcore orbiter. Classic blue-pill scenario. She considered him a good friend and I'd see him at gatherings pretty much drooling all over her. She told me on two occasions that he confessed his feelings for her and said that he was in love with her. I just responded with booming laughter, because 1) I knew she was a slut and would quickly shoot down any guy that declared his feelings for her and 2) because I knew she told me these things to arouse jealousy in me, to no avail. Regardless, the guy knew we were together but must have been somehow convinced that declaring his unbridled love for her would make her "come around" and leave me for him (I ditched her a few months later) On top of that, the guy hadn't had sex with a girl in 6 years, which I think he attributed to the death of his mom and not recovering emotionally from that.
Well, through a friend of a friend, I just heard this guy came out of the closet. In the span of a year, this guy went from being "in love" with my ex-gf to suddenly craving the cock? Just how does that work? You can't convince me that the ghey is 100% biological. This pathetic loser, having been unable to score some vag in 6 years and floundering with women, suddenly gives up and due to his basic human desire for human sexual connection decides to flip his entire sexual orientation just so he can get some release.
Of course, that's simply too offensive for people to hear so for the record he was ALWAYS gay and was just confused before. Riiiiigggght
"...so I gave her an STD, and she STILL wanted to bang me."
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RE: DC: The Gayest Place in America?
(11-17-2013 03:40 PM)thedude3737 Wrote: You'd be hard-pressed to beat West Hollywood.
Mildly related anecdote:
When I was dating my last girlfriend, there was this IRT that was a hardcore orbiter. Classic blue-pill scenario. She considered him a good friend and I'd see him at gatherings pretty much drooling all over her. She told me on two occasions that he confessed his feelings for her and said that he was in love with her. I just responded with booming laughter, because 1) I knew she was a slut and would quickly shoot down any guy that declared his feelings for her and 2) because I knew she told me these things to arouse jealousy in me, to no avail. Regardless, the guy knew we were together but must have been somehow convinced that declaring his unbridled love for her would make her "come around" and leave me for him (I ditched her a few months later) On top of that, the guy hadn't had sex with a girl in 6 years, which I think he attributed to the death of his mom and not recovering emotionally from that.
Well, through a friend of a friend, I just heard this guy came out of the closet. In the span of a year, this guy went from being "in love" with my ex-gf to suddenly craving the cock? Just how does that work? You can't convince me that the ghey is 100% biological. This pathetic loser, having been unable to score some vag in 6 years and floundering with women, suddenly gives up and due to his basic human desire for human sexual connection decides to flip his entire sexual orientation just so he can get some release.
Of course, that's simply too offensive for people to hear so for the record he was ALWAYS gay and was just confused before. Riiiiigggght 
I lived in a city where the ratio was 1 okay looking girl to 5 dudes. There was a huge amount of gay/bi guys in that city as well. Lack of pussy must turn guys to dick.
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Veloce
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RE: DC: The Gayest Place in America?
Yup.
My best friend in high school was gay. But when I met him, he had dated girls and actually had a girlfriend for over a year. I think most gay men are like this and have had previous experiences with women. When he came out of the closet I didn't give a shit or even talk about it that much, but if I had asked him why, he'd probably say something along the lines of, "I just don't connect with women that well."
Chicks loved this guy. Talk, good looking, very social, loves to party. He always used to say, "If I was straight I'd get more pussy than a toilet seat" and it was true. But I think something was missing on the emotional side. He's an amazing artist, one of the most talented painters/illustrators I've ever seen. American women are ruthless to sensitive types.
He grew up with a mentally deranged single mother that eventually killed herself. We grew up in a town where women are pretty awful. Typical American suburbia.
What if he grew up in a more traditional environment surrounded by feminine women? Who knows...
"...so I gave her an STD, and she STILL wanted to bang me."
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(This post was last modified: 11-17-2013 04:46 PM by Veloce.)
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RE: DC: The Gayest Place in America?
(11-17-2013 04:30 PM)MikeCF Wrote: (11-17-2013 03:40 PM)thedude3737 Wrote: Well, through a friend of a friend, I just heard this guy came out of the closet. In the span of a year, this guy went from being "in love" with my ex-gf to suddenly craving the cock? Just how does that work? You can't convince me that the ghey is 100% biological. This pathetic loser, having been unable to score some vag in 6 years and floundering with women, suddenly gives up and due to his basic human desire for human sexual connection decides to flip his entire sexual orientation just so he can get some release.
Roosh had a post about that on his blog a while back asking if American women are turning men gay.
I chuckled and thought he was trolling.
Then I saw what you've reported and realized Roosh was both being serious and that he was right.
Funny.
Here ya go:
http://www.rooshv.com/american-men-who-c...osexuality
Yea I have to agree. I think sexuality is not completely biologically determined there are other factors at work.
The best example is prision. From what I understand its kind of condoned for guys to fuck other men especially when they have long bids of 5 plus years. I think the expression used is "gay for the stay."
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(This post was last modified: 11-17-2013 07:29 PM by bacon.)
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