Up-and-Comg Gay Neighborhoods the US

Contents:

• MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
• THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
• MOVG TO LGBT PTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY PARIS
• WHO ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR GAYBORHOOD? UNRSTANDG POPULATN CHANGE AND CULTURAL SHIFTS LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODS
• ONCE A CCIAL REFUGE, ‘GAYBORHOODS’ LOSE L.G.B.T.Q. RINTS MAJOR CI

MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US

While the French Quarter has several fun LGBTIQ+ bars and clubs, ’s well worth the walk east, past Frenchmen Street, to reach the Bywater’s classic div, hidn urtyard eateri, vtage shops and the always-worthwhile, gay-owned Country Club (rerve early for smashg weekend drag bnch).

THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI

The Mile High Cy hosted one of the first pri paras the USA, gay anizatns (like The Colorado Gay Roo Associatn) were thrivg the early 80s, was one of the first municipali to adopt an anti-discrimatn policy 1990, and PriFt ranks as one of the largt gay pri week- ends Ameri wh more than 350, 000 people celebratg. On The Marlama’s ial “gay-trifitn, ” lols would pot their fger to Club JAM, a gay bar that opened 2007 and first planted LGBT roots the neighborhood, “When Club JAM opened 2007, was the first domo that got thgs movg the Marmala neighborhood, ” says club owner and young entreprenr Jason Olsen.

Apart om intifyg as LGBTQ+, a high-e Black female cis-genred lbian, for example, her journey to unrstand and exprs her own sexual orientatn, may have ltle mon wh a middle-e gay genr-queer Asian male who both may have ltle mon wh a middle-age Whe genr-nonnformg trans dividual quietly explorg bisexualy at mid-life. It is the differenc that fuel a grassroots mobilizatn among LGBTQ+ people to persevere through adversy; gay neighborhoods th serve as cubators for empowerment and social change and serve as home base for social movements and the fight for equaly that ultimately benefs every rner of society. Gay neighborhoods fostered brave pneers and some of the very first efforts to assist people wh AIDS, to unselfishly raise awarens among the general public about safe sex (when ernments were unwillg to do so), and to nurture the value of human life amid profoundly changg circumstanc.

MOVG TO LGBT PTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

1(Source Image urty of William Ivancic)In Chigo and other ci, rints of gay neighborhoods adapt to COVID-19 guil cludg mask wearg and spatial distancgFull size image2 Nomenclature: Everyone BelongsThe semantics of “gay” have changed over time and the chang reflect shifts attu and shifts the evolutn of mastream perceptn. Gay “liberatn” durg the 1960s evolved to gay “eedom” the 1970s which evolved to gay “pri” the 1990s, and this progrsn was terpted the 1980s by the HIV/AIDS panmic and the ll to power for all LGBTQ+ dividuals to “Act Up” for the right to live ee om social stigma.

In this ve, although many gay neighborhoods were historilly anchored by a populatn of gay cis men (Chncey 2008; Podmore 2021), we nsir a “gay” neighborhood to be urban space wh some gree of tolerance clive of gay men, lbian women, trans+ dividuals, tersex dividuals, qutng dividuals, and var other sexual among like-md people, LGBTQ+ rints sought llective secury to addrs their feelgs of disenanchisement and safeguard agast opprsn manifted hostily and vlence (Lria and Knopp 1985). Throughout this chapter and this book, we nsir a neighborhood to be a basic buildg block of a cy (Forsyth 2001), and for nvenience we terchangeably e the terms “gayborhood, ” “gay neighborhood, ” “gay enclave, ” “gay district, ” “gay village” and “LGBTQ+ neighborhood”; we acknowledge the limatns of the labels.

Gay neighborhoods emerged over this perd as a safe haven for ee exprsn and a rpe for all manner of people ostracized or shunned by mastream society om prosecutn, judgement, and gay neighborhoods were seed the settlement and movement pattern of sexual mori begng the first half of the twentieth century, and the history of gay neighborhoods is well documented lerature (Chncey 2008; Ghaziani 2015a; Higgs 1999; Niedt 2021; Orne 2017).

GAY PARIS

Origal and inic LGBTQ+ neighborhoods— large ci such as Berl (Schöneberg), Istanbul (Taksim Square), London (Ltle Compton Street), Los Angel (Wt Hollywood, which beme Ameri’s first gay cy), Mexi Cy (Zona Rosa), Miami (South Beach), New York (Greenwich Village and Chelsea), Paris (LeMarais), Sydney (Oxford Street), San Francis (the Castro), São Plo (Rua Frei Cane), Tokyo (Ni-chōme), Toronto (Church Street), and Washgton, DC (DuPont Circle)—tered maly to gay men (lbians often did not have a notable prence). Each gay neighborhood has s own unique reasons for beg and circumstanc for velopment (Gorman-Murray and Nash 2021) and nsequently the velopment and evolutn of dividual gayborhoods large urban centers—perceived as the “natural space” for gays and lbians (Higgs 1999)—opportuni gay neighborhoods for leisure and socializatn brought together the formative elements for the velopment of muny. As LGBTQ+ neighborhoods began to mature the 1980s and 1990s, gay villag served a central role liverg health-supportive servic—cludg HIV preventn and clics, doctor’s offic, unselg servic—related to the AIDS panmic (Ghaziani 2021) as well as mental health rourc (Weke et al.

WHO ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR GAYBORHOOD? UNRSTANDG POPULATN CHANGE AND CULTURAL SHIFTS LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODS

2(Source Image urty of Daniel Baldw Hs)The gay village Manchter, England, surrounds Canal Street and is one of the largt gay neighborhoods anywhereFull size imageMany people intifyg as LGBTQ+ seek eedom of personal exprsn, while others seek anonymy gay neighborhoods, where they n live their liv ee of judgement or persecutn. Gay neighborhoods and their rints have been wily accepted as signifint forc leadg and advotg for posive urban change and have rced the effects of LGBTQ+ mory stat by helpg to enhance people’s unrstandg about sexual mori (Doan and Higgs 2011; Gorman-Murray and Nash 2021), and LGBTQ+ muny members—and ed all of society—n experience an improved qualy of life when there is an creased level of neighborhoods also provid a means of entry for mastream society to better unrstand LGBTQ+ dividuals and LGBTQ+ culture. As a rult, the gay neighborhoods were ually passed over for large publicly-fund urban renewal projects (Gorman-Murray and Nash 2021), thereby protectg the tegry of the built environment and often sparg the neighborhoods om the urban planng missteps mon the mid- to late-twentieth century (Jabs 1961).

3(Source Image urty of Daniel Baldw Hs)Gay bars are anchor stutns the Stanley Street Gay Quarter Liverpool, EnglandFull size imageWhile gay neighborhoods first emerged as margal outposts, many have transformed (and gentrified) the last few s to bee universally sought-after districts. 4(Source Image urty of Daniel Baldw Hs)The Zona Rosa (“Pk Zone” English) is loted near the historic center of Mexi Cy and featur retail outlets and nightlife venu amid a gay munyFull size imageEstablished gay neighborhoods now embody a virtual dimensn for LGBTQ+ nnectn (Mil 2021), perhaps refg the importance of physil place. The closure of gay bars, emergg virtual gay spac, generatnal disnnect, and chang the character of gay neighborhoods are remrs that as the plac transn om beg home to generatns rooted stggle to playgrounds of generatns beneftg om that stggle, now may be a germane time to exame the prent plate the trajectory of gay neighborhoods.

5 Empiril Plan for This BookDrawg on a tradn of scholarship about the spatial basis of LGBTQ+ inty (Bnie and Valente 1999), this book explor perspectiv about the past, current, and future ndns of gay districts ci as a means to better unrstand the ongog evolutn of gay neighborhoods. The lol, natnal, and global upheaval related to the COVID-19 panmic will likely change how people live and perceive urban neighborhoods, perhaps stigatg further—and at prent unknowable—transformatn to recent books have provid var perspectiv on the velopment, growth, and change of gay neighborhoods (Notaro 2020; Ryan 2020; Crawford-Lackey and Sprgate 2020; Martel et al. Consequently, chapters wh the book give special attentn to two phenomena particular: (1) the forc of gentrifitn that have changed the character of gay districts durg the last two s (Hs 2019; Bterman 2020), phg out long-time gay and lbian rints as the number of non-LGBTQ+ rints and visors creas; and (2) the changg views toward gayborhoods of succsive generatns of LGBTQ+ rints, wh generatnal-attudal perspectiv as a signifint factor changg mand among LGTBQ+ groups for gayborhoods (see Fig.

ONCE A CCIAL REFUGE, ‘GAYBORHOODS’ LOSE L.G.B.T.Q. RINTS MAJOR CI

1 A Note Regardg LimatnsThe geographil reach of the chapters here is broad, sce phenomena relatg to the velopment, maturatn, and life cycle of gay neighborhoods is not uniform om untry to untry or even om cy to cy (Gorman-Murray and Nash 2021; Doan and Atalay 2021; Bterman and Hs 2021).

Accuracy of broadly applible asssments regardg “the emergence of” or “the ath of” gay neighborhoods is challengg given the legal, social, and enomic landsp and what may be happeng one gay neighborhood may not parallel what is happeng acknowledge the var limatns that this eded volume prents. However, the spac were often viewed by other members of the LGBTQ+ muny predomantly as gay male space, and as a rult of their gay male origs many lbian women, bisexual dividuals, and trans+ dividuals are nsequently ls likely to feel a ronant nnectn wh gay neighborhoods.

The distctn between gay neighborhoods and hipster neighborhoods be creasgly ls clear neighborhoods regnized for their high shar of sexual mori (Podmore 2021) and sexual fluidy among younger generatns shifts the generatnal perspective of gay neighborhoods (Bterman and Hs 2021).