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The ranking isn’t about who has the best bars or biggest scene.
It’s about worker and housing protections, the percentage of LGBtQ+ owned businesses….things like that.
That’s how a place like Richmond is ranked so high even though it’s not exactly a hot bed of LGBTQ+ activity. Richmond is a ***** town for sure but it isn’t exactly fun in the way that places like Chicago, Ft Lauderdale and Atlanta are. The Human Rights Campaign gives the city a perfect score of 100 but don’t expect to find it on any “most fun cities for gays” list.
Richmond is my town and I’m gay. It’s a fun place with a very large gay population relative to the size of the city. It’s friendly and VERY visible (***** POC in particular) with things ***** makers’ markets and LGBTQ bands but the bar scene leaves very much to be desired.
It’s also a town where we are perfectly comfortable using the word that starts with Q and ends with an R. Apparently city-data isn’t lol.
This is Lawn Starters version of top cities for LGBTQ community.
What do you think about this ranking? I never thought of Pittsburgh as a gay mecca. Orlando keeps surprising me with it rankings that reflects it being a progressive city.
Well, the American version of the British TV series "Q***r as Folk" was set in the 'Burgh.
And we now have testimony from at least one Pittsburgher that the city has a sizable LGBTQ community. I was surprised to see it rank so highly. I wasn't as surprised to see Philadelphia at #40, but I thought Pittsburgh would rank below it.
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What is Lawn Starters? And what criteria are they using for their rankings? I guess Provincetown and Key West are too small to be included on this list.
LawnStarter is a startup lawn care company. Seems that they like ranking cities as an attention-getter, similar to WalletHub*, but it looks like the design their surveys better (there was only one blooper in their methodology that I noted: they had one metric that was listed as a per-100,000-people category, but they assigned it a binary value (1=yes, 0=no) when it should have been sliding scale.
They do have lawns in the outer boroughs in NYC, especially Staten Island and Queens.
*I get pitches from both in my work email all the time. I tend to ignore those from WalletHub because I don't trust their methodology, but I did leverage LawnStarter's "Best Cities for BBQ" ranking — also discussed here; I would have reversed the order of #1 St. Louis and #2 Kansas City, but neither were a surprise the way #8 Orlando was — into an essay on Philadelphia's Q scene I'm writing for our food and drink section.
Not too surprisingly, the bottom 25 are all in southern states and tend to be moderate to conservative leaning. Memphis is shockingly low even though its traditionally the most liberal city in Tennessee, not unlike solidly middle of the pack (and good for the Deep South) Birmingham. Pretty shocking that #6 Atlanta isn't located too far from dead last Macon. I'd think its relative proximity would have at least propped up its ranking a bit.
I have a hard time believing St. Louis is more LGBT friendly than Minneapolis.
Why? St. Louis was the first major Midwest city to implement a domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples in the 1990s. The city has long been a bastion of acceptance and inclusion when it comes to the LGBTQ community, and that is evident in pretty much every single popular neighborhood as well as in government policy (in spite of the increasing backwardness of MO state policy). The city must never be confused with the state; they are two very different places.
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