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if you want to drive innovation, you need a middle class. but this middle class also has to be cosmopolitan and liberal and forward-looking. so there's a book by Richard Florida called The rise of the creative class. and in it he argues that the most creative people are drawn to cities that are the most open-minded. and he calls this a gay index. cities with the highest proportion of gay people tend to be the most creative.