4,500 residents, 60% Inupiat (but only a few speak the Inupiaq language). Although the town hosted the first same-sex wedding in the state, there are only four open lesbian residents and no gay men.
There's not a lot going on. The Inupiat Heritage Center has some exhibits, the Pluraagvik Recreation Center has a gym, and you can go on a tour of the tundra..And you can go physique watching.
When wrestling.
Or at the beach (for looking, not swimming -- the water is below 32 degrees and quite dangerous)
But there are always intrepid tourists who attempt a "Polar Plunge."
Back to the high school. Powerlifting.
Winning a "school spirit" award.
But, strangely enough, not on a vacation in Hawaii. Too hot to go shirtless!
To be fair, it is only 4500 people, so you get small numbers fallacy when trying to calculate openly LGBT numbers.
ReplyDeleteThe weather is making me feel like going to Alaska.
I got the number from Roadkill's list of the gayest towns in Alaska. I don't know where they got it.
DeleteI wonder how many of those "gay guides" would have similar cases of a lot of Indians being common. Like, I know at least when I was growing up, there was a lot of furtive mutual masturbation and other nonpenetrative activities, with oral being rarer and anal being rarer still because bottoms weren't traditionally thought of as men.
DeleteObviously not universal, but this brand of masculinity is fairly common.
I'm sure it doesn't count MSM (Men Who Have Sex with Men), but people who identify as gay or lesbian on surveys. So identity rather than behavior. For a vacation hookup, it doesn't really matter what their sexual identity is, but for everyday socialization, you want guys who are gay.
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