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===Social=== The Portland metropolitan area has historically had a significant [[LGBT]] population throughout the late 20th and early 21st century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.travelportland.com/article/lgbt-history-in-portland/|work=[[Travel Portland]]|title=LGBT history in Portland|access-date=September 25, 2015|date=August 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926091323/https://www.travelportland.com/article/lgbt-history-in-portland/|archive-date=September 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glapn.org/6020timeline.html|work=GLAPN|title=Oregon Gay History Timeline|access-date=September 25, 2015}}</ref> In 2015, the city metro had the second highest percentage of LGBT residents in the United States with 5.4% of residents identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, second only to San Francisco.<ref name="nylgbt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/upshot/the-metro-areas-with-the-largest-and-smallest-gay-population.html|work=The New York Times|title=The Metro Areas With the Largest, and Smallest, Gay Populations|date=March 20, 2015|access-date=September 25, 2015|author1=Leonhardt, David|author2=Cain Miller, Claire}}</ref> In 2006, it was reported to have the seventh highest LGBT population in the country, with 8.8% of residents identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and the metro ranking fourth in the nation at 6.1%.<ref name="ACSGates">Gary J. Gates {{cite web|url=http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-Same-Sex-Couples-GLB-Pop-ACS-Oct-2006.pdf|title=Same-sex Couples and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Population: New Estimates from the American Community Survey|access-date=June 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609015224/http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-Same-Sex-Couples-GLB-Pop-ACS-Oct-2006.pdf|archive-date=June 9, 2013|url-status=dead}} {{small|(2.07 MB)}}. The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, [[UCLA School of Law]], October 2006. Retrieved April 20, 2007.</ref> The city held its first [[pride festival]] in 1975 on the [[Portland State University]] campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2015/5/26/40-years-of-portland-pride-june-2015|work=PDX Monthly|title=Looking Back on 40 Years of Portland Pride|date=May 26, 2015|author=Ritchie, Rachel|access-date=September 29, 2015}}</ref>
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