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“If you like the urban downtown loft or the picket fence in the quaint neighborhood or the little box houses, we all just kind of seek that out to fit our interests.” “Everybody, no matter gay or straight, has different interests, and those interests lie everywhere,” said Alisa Weldon, co-founder of L Style G Style Magazine, Austin’s gay and lesbian lifestyle publication. These were split almost evenly between male and female couples. Of the city’s 324,892 households, 4,182 were led by same-sex couples in 2010. The percentage of same-sex couples in the city of Austin was higher than the county’s, 1.28 percent.
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These numbers rank Travis County 13th among all U.S. There were about 5,000 same-sex households in Travis County in 2010, a 69 percent increase since 2000. Travis County has the state’s largest rate of households led by same-sex couples, 1.25 percent, more than twice the statewide average, according to the 2010 Census. “We have a diverse constituency in Austin, and we elect politicians who are LGBT friendly, which really makes a difference.”Īustin and most of Central Texas have much appeal to same-sex couples according to The Austin American-Statesman. “I think what sets us apart is our city and county government,” said Peevy. “I think that a man walking down the street holding hands with his boyfriend is less likely to be bothered than a man walking around and screaming obscenities.”Ĭhad Peevy, former president of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, said Austin’s diverse population was a possible reason for the city’s high ranking on the list of best cities for gays to live. “The acceptance of the gay lifestyle in Austin is due to the fact that I believe this city to be so liberal that acceptance of one person lies beyond their sexual preference,” said Santos Destruction, 25, a gay Austin native. Texas’ LGBT population is the fourth largest in the country with 579,968 people as of 2010.
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In 2010, Austin’s overall population was 790,390, according to the Census, with the gay community population in the city being 61,732 people strong, almost 8 percent of the entire population, according to the American Community Survey.
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The list incorporated statistics including the number of gay public officials elected by the city, the number of gay bars per capita and the number of same-sex couple households per capita to determine the top 15 “gayest cities in America.” Some other criteria for the rankings included whether or not there was statewide marriage equality and the number of gay films in household’s Netflix favorites. Voted the ninth best place for gays to live in 2010 by The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine, the city of Austin is seen as “a small dot of blue in a vast sea of red conservatism,” said Matthew Gracia, 20, University of Texas at Austin junior women’s and gender studies major. Since opening its doors in 1990, Oilcan Harry’s, located on Austin’s gay-friendly 4th Street, is still the premiere hangout for the city’s large gay community, which makes up 8 percent of the entire population.