A gay gui to the USA. Reviews, maps and rmatn verg the major towns and ci om Alaska to New York.
Contents:
MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
From Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Lake Merrt, Oakland, here are the new gayborhoods of the US. * gay new location *
As a rult, many journalists are llg the dream of an Amerin gayborhood ad. Soclogist Am Ghaziani suggts that LGBTQ urban are foregog the ia of a sgular gayborhood exchange for what he refers to as cultural archipelagos: queer pockets throughout a cy’s landspe that reflect a diverse exprsn of sexuali and liftyl.
GAY USA
A new lotn of the Inic Orlando gay bar Parliament Hoe will open downtown Orlando the near future, acrdg to a social media post om the nightclub. * gay new location *
The new districts don’t look like the untry’s gayborhoods and aren’t always so easy to intify. Halstead Street has been the central ve nng through Chigo’s OG gayborhood, Boystown, for 50-pl years, but Clark Street, the mercial artery the heart of nearby Anrsonville, is emergg as the new ontier for LGBTQ rints.
GAY ALBUQUERQUE
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While many gay-centric bs Boystown have recently shuttered and reopened as more straight-iendly tablishments, the queer offergs Anrsonville are expandg. Anrsonville is proof that “gay” isn’t the only thg that mak a neighborhood great for queer rints. Cooper Do-nuts, loted on Ma Street DTLA, was once a popular fe sandwiched between two gay bars and equented by the lol queer muny.
SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
After an attempt by police to arrt patrons 1959, an army of drag queens, trans women, lbians, and gay men fought back what’s believed to be the first LGBT uprisg the Uned Stat. LA’s LGBTQ rints began reclaimg their historic turf after three new gay bars opened 2015. Wh no need to worry about the cy’s notorly bad traffic, ’s surprisg the gay muny didn’t e home to this ‘hood sooner.
The Castro San Francis is the crowng jewel of the US’s gayborhoods, but as the cy ntu gentrifyg wh the onslght of the tech dtry, many lament the loss of the neighborhood’s queer inty. Historilly, however, San Francis’s gayborhood has always been transient.
Here, Lake Merrt is tchg on as an up-and-g gayborhood, but not the ways one might thk.