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San Francisco may be world's gayest city: report
Reuters ^
| April 7, 2006
| Adam Tanner
Posted on 04/07/2006 5:21:20 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
New statistics suggest San Francisco has the highest percentage of gay men among major cities in the world, with a quarter of them HIV-positive, a top city health official said on Friday.
"Despite an overall loss in the population in San Francisco in the last five years, we think there has been an absolute gain in gay men," William McFarland, head of HIV/AIDS statistics at San Francisco's Department of Public Health, said in an interview. "From all the data I have seen ... it's the gayest city in the world."
McFarland has compiled the city's first survey in five years on gay men and HIV to be presented at a meeting next week to discuss HIV/AIDS prevention.
He said it found an estimated 63,577 gay males aged 15 and above in San Francisco, a city with a total population of 764,000. That figure represents nearly one in five of the city's males above the age of 15.
0ne out of every four gay males -- 25.8 percent -- is infected with the HIV virus, giving San Francisco an estimated total of 16,401 HIV-positive men, said McFarland, an epidemiologist who has also worked on studies in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Egypt.
The survey indicates that the overall percentage of those living with HIV has dropped since the last study five years ago.
"The major changes since 2001 are that, first of all, the gay community has grown. It's largely been an influx of more HIV-negative gay men that are here," he said. "It used to be near 30 percent.
"The absolute number of gay men living with HIV has crept up partly because of ongoing transmission and partly because of improved survival with treatment," he added.
At 40 percent, Baltimore has the highest percentage of HIV-positive men among its population in a study of five cities, with San Francisco second, according to a 2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
In coming up with his estimate of the number of gay men, McFarland said he took the middle point of nine previous studies.
McFarland acknowledged that it was difficult to get a precise number because of sensitivities over the issue. But he said San Francisco residents were likely to be more open about their sexuality than people in many other areas.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: aids; bluezone; breakingnews; captainobvious; duh; fabulous; gay; hiv; homosexualagenda; sanfrancisco; sayitaintso; sf; super
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To: West Coast Conservative
Right out of the Book of Duh.
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04/07/2006 5:22:32 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:23:14 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: West Coast Conservative
And when i said this my liberal friends flipped out.
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04/07/2006 5:24:11 PM PDT
by
SDGOP
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:24:25 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:24:59 PM PDT
by
se_ohio_young_conservative
(God makes us strong for alittle while so that we can protect the weak.)
To: West Coast Conservative
Study: earth round; sun rises in east.
To: West Coast Conservative
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04/07/2006 5:25:54 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)
To: West Coast Conservative
There are still straight men in SF? Unbelievable...
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04/07/2006 5:26:50 PM PDT
by
Palpatine
(The lesson of modern politics is that no class is less fit to govern than that which governs us now)
To: West Coast Conservative
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04/07/2006 5:26:51 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("ARMAGEDDON!!!" *BOOM!* "And the rockets' red glare...gerbils bursting in air...")
To: Palpatine
To: kerryusama04
Study: earth round; sun rises in east. what? NO WAY! ... /lol
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04/07/2006 5:27:29 PM PDT
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Palpatine
(The lesson of modern politics is that no class is less fit to govern than that which governs us now)
To: West Coast Conservative
No wonder Cartman had to wear a bio suit when he went in to SanFran.
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:27:39 PM PDT
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Panerai
To: West Coast Conservative
where's a good tsunami when u need one?
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04/07/2006 5:28:05 PM PDT
by
texson66
("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
To: lndrvr1972
I've never been there... no really! I've never been anywhere on the west coast!
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:28:46 PM PDT
by
Palpatine
(The lesson of modern politics is that no class is less fit to govern than that which governs us now)
To: West Coast Conservative
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04/07/2006 5:29:09 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: West Coast Conservative
Gayest city since Sodom and Gomorrah?
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:30:16 PM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(We are a nation of laws before we are a nation of immigrants.)
To: West Coast Conservative; Admin Moderator
To: West Coast Conservative
"Despite an overall loss in the population in San Francisco in the last five years, we think there has been an absolute gain in gay men," So you have lost healthy citizens and gained sick ones. That does not bode well for the future of your city.
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04/07/2006 5:30:50 PM PDT
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Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: West Coast Conservative
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04/07/2006 5:30:59 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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