Wellington's "gay capital" claim: typical

Wellington wants it all. The national museums, the orchestras, wearable arts, the arts portfolio in general, and now, on the basis of the incidence of same-sex civil unions, is claiming to be the gay capital of NZ. We Aucklanders will not subscribe to this usurpation of one of our primary claims to greatness. Speaking as a denizen of the Ponsonby Road end of town, and also being a regular visitor to Wellington, I can claim with certainty that we have a buffer, better-dressed,  harder-partying and more sophisticated coffee-drinking gay community than anything that wind-swept Wellington can offer. Indeed, Ponsonby Road has a significantly classier feel about it as a result of the Pink Dollar, an impact not observable anywhere in Wellington. Come on, Auckland, stand up to this further example of Wellingtonian aggrandisement.