I think it’s that San Francisco has no substitute for gays the way that other cities have for straights (although an analogue could be made for “techies.”) If y

I think it’s that San Francisco has no substitute for gays the way that other cities have for straights (although an analogue could be made for “techies.”) If you live as a closeted gay man in Kansas, San Francisco occupies the mindspace of a holy land, but the prices in the city create a barrier like the Vatican charging Catholics $10,000 for a ticket to St. Peter’s Basilica would.