Gui To Philalphia's Gayborhood - CBS Philalphia

Contents:

• 'GO THE F*** HOME!': WOMAN REPEATEDLY SCREAMS BLOODY MURR, DROPS F-BOMBS ON ANTI-ABORTN STREET PREACHER SEATTLE 'GAYBORHOOD'
• GAYBORHOOD
• GAYBORHOOD
• GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD
• THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD
• THIS IS THE GAYBORHOOD & UR NOT WELE

'GO THE F*** HOME!': WOMAN REPEATEDLY SCREAMS BLOODY MURR, DROPS F-BOMBS ON ANTI-ABORTN STREET PREACHER SEATTLE 'GAYBORHOOD'

The woman turned up the heat on the street preacher a ltle more, as she explaed to him ont of a rabow-lored siwalk an even higher-pched squeal that "this is the Gayborhood, and you are not wele! Rabow flags hang om the streetlights, and the streets are led wh gay bars, boutiqu, trendy f, and overpriced hog.

You're likely to n to any of the Queer as Trop archetyp and their iends, see two men hold hands whout fear of retributn and meet butch lbians and manly gays who'll beat the ass of anyone who dar try. Due to gentrifitn, the Gayborhood is often an upsle district, feedg the stereotype that all gay people have money out the y-yang.

Relig fundamentalists often preach about the evils of "that part of town, " seeg as a morn-day Sodom and Gomorrah, where prostutn and dg abe n rampant, praved homosexuals have bare buttsecks out of seedy bathho, and where one n't so much as bend over to pick up change whout havg a Leatherman on top of him like whe on rice (how they know all of this is a different story). Stori based here tend to feed stereotyp that gay people (particularly the men) do nothg but lounge around pools and have sex all day. The Gayborhood will often visually remble San Francis's world-famo Castro district, even if no other part of the cy has a streetr (and the famo ble rs don't actually n anywhere near the Castro).

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For example, Wt Hollywood beme a gayborhood bee ed to be unrporated terrory unr the jurisdictn of the Los Angel County Sheriff's Department rather than the LAPD, who at the time was notorly homophobic.

In other ci, gayborhoods are eher upsle parts of town where gay upl wh two and no kids uld settle and make their liv, or workg-class neighborhoods neher expensive nor crime-ridn, where gays would renovate the ho and open bs, gentrifyg the area over time until beme upsle, for better or for worse. Wh LGBT tolerance beg more mastream many parts of the world, there's ls motivatn for queer people to move to the neart gayborhood. Some are worried that wispread tolerance, though obvly a good thg overall, will rce the populatn and uniquens of the gayborhoods and their associated culture.

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Ined, thanks to this effect, gentrifitn, or both, some gayborhoods have bee The Theme Park Versn of their former selv. Mary Mary and Max mentns how her hband Damian tak her on honeymoon to Mykonos, famo Europe as a gay tourist statn.

The Tim of Harvey Milk, a documentary about Milk the gay rights activist and gay polician, also documents how the Castro turned to the first gayborhood as gays and lbians like Milk me to San Francis their thoands. The novel foc on the French Quarter of New Orleans, which while never a Gayborhood s entirety, was noted even then (the early '60s) to attract "characters", of whom many were gay. The character (both sens) of Dorian Greene is rather important to the story, and the gradual velopment of the gay muny there is noted by the prence of Greene's stume party (at which men dance wh men, ll each other "darlg, " and gh over a Judy Garland rerd).

Proud Pk Sky is set an alternate Berl that forms the world's first gay state – makg the entire cy an example of this trope. In Our Dumb Century, The Onn reports the 1906 San Francis earthquake wh this headle: "EARTH-QUAKE MARKS LEAST GAY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY.

GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD

(It's actually based on the gay district Toronto, where the show was produced—a fact lampshad when the gang go to Toronto for a gay weddg.

Dante's Cove the TV show of the same name, an upmarket island rort where the rints appear to do ltle else except have gay sex.

The L Word: The show is set LA's real one, Wt Hollywood, jtifyg how the vast majory of characters seem to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr - at least the people the st teract wh. Foc character Daffydd has failed to realize this and sists he's "the only Gay the Village" bee he's the only one who drs and acts stereotypilly; he's been seen to turn down dat rather than adm other gay people exist.

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His first few victims were straight, but when he started targetg gay men, the lol police feared was a hate crime.

The BAU team quickly termed that was a serial killer who jt happened to be gay himself and was targetg victims he was attracted to (as most of them do) and was stayg the area specifilly to sre his hband back to his arms. Gay-themed dis act Village People released "San Francis" and "In Hollywood (Everybody Is A Star)" as their first two sgl, and later tracks clud "Go Wt" (also about San Francis), "New York Cy", and "Fire Island".

Comedian Dat Phan has a b about livg a Gayborhood, bee was a nice place, affordable, relatively safe, and he didn't realize until after he moved .

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As of his first Comedy Central special, his mother (who thks that earrgs mean guys are eher gay or a gang, pendg on the ear) still hadn't realized that he was gay-adjacent.

He is talkg about a particular upsle Gayborhood and mentns that he saw a lot of gay men livg there but very few lbians (and felt ripped off bee of ). The Castro is a proment lotn for the Prime_Eight qut le Watch_Dogs 2 as a gay bar is the favore hnt of Lenni, the lear of the opposg hacker group to DedSec.

When Homer and Marge separate "Three Gays Of The Condo", Homer fds a roommate Sprgfield's gayborhood, though this don't occur to him even as he ns to Smhers rollerbladg hotpants and a trolley full of manly gays rolls by and lls him a "bear". The Castro is famo enough that often gets nflated wh the entire cy popular culture, such that many people nsir all of San Francis to be Ameri's gayborhood.