Massachusetts, right?
I seem to recall there being a large lesbian population there
Yup. They used to march in gay pride parades with a giant banner that said something like “Northampton–Lesbian Occupied Territory.”
I would imagine that it’s certainly easier…
I would also guess that there’s more photogenic gay men than photogenic gay women.
At the dog park I go to in Seattle, for instance, there’s lots of gay couples who come with their dogs. The gay guys tend to be well kept–maybe a little pudgy since these are middle aged guys with a house–and they have little yappy dogs. The lesbian couples tend to be pretty overweight and dumpy, with pit bulls as pets. They’re all pretty nice people to chat with, but the men are definitely more TV friendly.
We have some really cute lesbians here that I think would be very TV friendly, but it could have to do with this being an inner city rental neighbourhood where college students, people just starting out, and quite a few artists live.
Most of the lesbians in my neighbourhood are quite cool looking younger ladies (18-35), with interesting multi-coloured and/or spiky hair, dressed like and urban hipster, punk/new wave or in ironic western-ware. Their style & looks are more cute tomboy than older chubby women and none of them have dogs (rental area again).
Reminds me of this story:
Gay couple wins £5,000 damages after estate agent prints “lesbians” on advert for their house.
Not that I’m condoning the agent’s actions, but…
:rolleyes: But giving a quote to a newspaper beneath a giant grinning picture of yourselves is OK?
Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that I’m a trogolodyte that wants to do violence against a gay couple. If I see a picture and a name in a newspaper, well, there’s not a whole lot I can do with that, is there? Unless I just happen to run into one of them on the street, and recognize them from a picture I happened to see God knows how long ago, they’re still relatively anonymous. On the other hand, if I open a newspaper and see an ad that says, “Lesbian are living at 123 Fake St,” then I can just go directly to the address and lob a firebomb through their window.
Even if you’re not looking at it from a random violence perspective, the fact that this couple is willing to out themselves does not make it okay for someone else to out them. On a personal level, it’s very possible that any given gay couple has strong reasons to remain closeted from friends or family members. The fact that this couple doesn’t have to worry about that doesn’t mean that it’s okay for the rental company to have outed them like that.
So, yes, I’d say that one is out of bounds, and the other is okay.
Would that be a LesMecca? Sounds like a new coffee…
In the gaybourhood! Of course.
And sage_rat is probably right. More attention-desperate, photogenic gay men than women.
Btw I know lesbians who have converted to the classic butch simply so they could go to 2 or 3 "Whoa, a dyke!"s from 100+ "So, what’s your sign?"s. I also know femme lesbians who have gotten rather harsh words from butch dykes because of their appearance - no one likes a tourist…?
Also very photogenic lesbians might be uncomfortable with the idea of becoming national wank material. Gay men would/do love the idea.
You should know, Sapo.
In this town, mostly on the west side. Gay males, both single and partnered, seem to mostly be on the east side.
Lesbanon.
(Now that I’ve written it, that sounds like the name of a 12-step group. Oh well.)
Nnho, I ddhidn’t.
New Hampshire, you mean?
And they have their names changed to Sherri.
(I swear I’ve known 4 lesbians in my life. All named Sherri. Coincidence? I think not.)
I wondered why my utilities bills had gone up recently.
I’ve noticed an inordinate amount of same-sex couples on The Dog Whisperer, none of which were identified as gay but were pinging my gaydar as well.
Few possibilities:
- The area the show is filmed in has a high percentage of gay people.
- One of the producers is gay and is actively trying to promote a friendly dog-loving, family image of gay people to the masses, so chooses them disproportionately.
- Gay people–who are infertile with each other–have a higher propensity to have dogs and/or spoil them like children.
My vote would be on a mixture of #1 and #3, but who knows.
Around here, I call them “Womyn of the Wolf”. Butch or plain, and with a disproportionately large number having Arctic breeds like Siberian Huskies, Keeshonds, Malamutes, or some other breed that looks wolfish.
Nah, IME Santa Cruz really does have more lesbians than the North Bay. (I grew up really close to where psycat90 lives and I went to college in Santa Cruz.) But there are plenty in the North Bay, too. There are also a lot in Oakland.
I just heard a complaint today that there aren’t enough lesbians in Ann Arbor. So, not here, apparently.
ETA: But you know, Guerneville really is wildly disproportionately gay. It’s such a small town that it’s not really a large numerical figure, but I would be surprised if it’s not in the top ten most same sex households per capita in the US.