This thread surprises me because it seems everyone here likes drinking gin. In reality, I often find that I'm one of the only G+T drinkers in most drinking establishmens. I hardly know anyone else who'd have it as their drink-of-choice (not being snobby - it's just most people I know choose other spirits/mixer combinations over it).
So either a lot of people are exaggerating here (with some strange idea that if they say they drink gin we'll think they're cultured or something), or there is some bizarre phenomenon which attracts gin drinks to GD