SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 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.http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060407/2006-04-07T233012Z_01_N07310796_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-LIFE-SANFRANCISCO-DC.html

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Wow,and here I thought it'd be some place like Tupelo,MS!!

hey thumper..*newsflash*..HIV isn't a disease exclusive to the gay community ....it affects heterosexuals too..

:rolleyes:

Do San Franciscans like to talk with their eyes closed and smell their own farts?

I loved that episode of South Park. :D

Wow,and here I thought it'd be some place like Tupelo,MS!!


No, Tupelo is the bluesiest city. Try to keep up, man.

so it's not just fairytale... there really is a fairy kingdom...

Kind of a strange place for Boe and Jimmy.

Big Fat Duh. Everyone in the Bay Area has known for the past 2.5 decades that the best place on earth for a heterosexual guy is SF - due to the lack of competition.

Big Fat Duh. Everyone in the Bay Area has known for the past 2.5 decades that the best place on earth for a heterosexual guy is SF - due to the lack of competition.
I'd like to see more proof for the 1/4 have HIV claim...

Oh my god, a lot of gay men live in San Francisco! WHO CARES? :rolleyes:

I went to San Fransisco for a wedding. I stayed for a week out there and I didn't even notice anything overtly homosexual there. But, I did see more homeless people than I ever cared too. If they really wanted to clean it up, get those people out of there.

Big Fat Duh. Everyone in the Bay Area has known for the past 2.5 decades that the best place on earth for a heterosexual guy is SF - due to the lack of competition.

That is...once you FIND a gal there who isn't a lesbian..:hmm:

I didn't even notice anything overtly homosexual there.
If you're not in the castro, you're not gonna. I love SF.

That is...once you FIND a gal there who isn't a lesbian..:hmm:


Wrong city. Everyone knows that By And Large, the women of Berkeley are Bi And Large.

hey thumper..*newsflash*..HIV isn't a disease exclusive to the gay community ....it affects heterosexuals too..

:rolleyes:

and quite a lot more heterosexuals than homosexuals, probably by an order of magnitude or two ;)

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lilnymph

do lesbians get aids?

Anyone can contract HIV; it's not gender exculsive.