Two different surveys released today have revealed 'America's Manliest Cities' and also its gayest neighbourhoods.

There will be no surprise that San Francisco's Castro neighbourhood tops the gayest list for men, nor will any eyebrows be raised at the Midwest's Oklahoma City being named the manliest.

While the manliest list was decided by less than scientific methods such as the number of steakhouses, the gayest neighbourhood list was based on declared male and female same-sex couples from the 2010 Census.

Comprised by the snack food giant Combos, the fourth annual manliest list took 50 major metropolitan areas and compiled what it called manly city data.

the snack food giant: 快餐食品巨头

'The study compiles manly city data such as the number of home improvement stores, steak houses and manly occupations per capita,' said a statement from Combos.

'But even if a city has a fair share of manly traits, unmanly or "girly" factors, like a high concentration of nail salons and fancy shopping boutiques can bump cities to the bottom of the list.'

nail salons:修甲店

fancy shopping boutiques:高档购物精品店

With no representatives from either the east or west coast on the top ten of manliest cities, the Midwest, the south and Texas are heavily represented.

Following up on Oklahoma City's tail are Columbia, South Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama.

Indeed, it seems that along with Tennessee, which has two entries in the top ten, Ohio is a very manly state with four entries in the top twenty, including Cincinnati and Cleveland.

'The results don’t lie: the manliest place to be is the city they call ‘OKC,’ said Craig Hall, General Manager of Combos’ manufacturer, Mars Chocolate North America, in a press release.

OKC:俄克拉何马城

In fact, the two survey's did seem to overlap on the least manliest cities in the U.S. at least by Combo's strict criteria.

San Francisco, home to the Castro neighbourhood came 49th out of 50, while San Diego was named the least manliest city in all of America.

The gayest neighbourhoods list which was put together by real estate research firm, Trulia Trends, applied less esoteric methods to its survey.

For each ZIP code in the U.S. they calculated the percentage of gay men and women in each city using data available from the 2010 Census which reported 646,000 same-sex households in America.

ZIP code:邮政编码

That figure is only 0.6 percent of the nations 117 million households and is split 51 percent for female couples and 49 percent for male.

With the exceptions of Oak Lawn in Dallas, Texas and Pleasant Ridge, Detroit, the top ten is made up of west and east coast neighbourhoods.

the exceptions of:除了

Released to mark Gay Pride Month in the U.S. The gayest male neighborhoods are a mix of well-known urban neighborhoods (Castro, West Hollywood), less-well-known communities (Wilton Manors, FL; Pleasant Ridge, MI), and vacation areas (Provincetown, Palm Springs, Rehoboth Beach).

Just three neighborhoods — Provincetown, Rehoboth Beach, and the Castro — are on both the men’s and women’s top lists.

The top four women’s neighborhoods, including Provincetown, are in Massachusetts.

The survey also revealed where gay men and women cluster in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The neighborhood with the highest concentration of male couples in New York is Chelsea and New York’s gay women cluster in Brooklyn, especially in Park Slope.

The gay center of LA for men includes two zip codes in West Hollywood: roughly from Doheny Drive to Sweetzer, while Belmont Heights is where lesbians are in their largest concentration.

San Francisco sports the gayest neighborhood in America for men: the Castro, while women seem to cluster across the Bay in Oakland.

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