Goln State Gems: A Look at California's Most Gay-Friendly Urban Havens |

Contents:

• DISVER THE COOLT, QUIRKIT, AND PROUST GAYBORHOODS THE U.S.
• GOLN STATE GEMS: A LOOK AT CALIFORNIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY URBAN HAVENS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAYT PLAC AMERI — AND HOW THEY ME TO BE
• GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
• GAYT PLAC IN CONNECTICUT FOR 2020
• BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'
• WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
• A BLACK MAN RAN TO GAY ENCLAV TO FEEL SAFE. BUT WAS HE WELE?
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• 'GAY BARCHIV' DOCUMENTS HISTORIC GAY BARS AS LGBTQ+ SAFE HAVENS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.
• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
• HARD TIM FOR GAY RETIREMENT HAVENS
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY
• GAY-IENDLY: MARRAKECH FOR HOMOSEXUALS
• ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
• DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS

DISVER THE COOLT, QUIRKIT, AND PROUST GAYBORHOODS THE U.S.

Logan Circle, Washgton, DC | Nile Glass Photography/ShutterstockLogan Circle, Washgton, DC | Nile Glass Photography/ShutterstockAcross the US, ci large and small, gay neighborhoods (gayborhoods) stand rolute as welg havens for travelers om every lor of the rabow.

Today, though, thgs have taken an extraordary turn, as RiNo is home to queer-n galleri (like artist Tracy Weil’s); street murals clad wh rabows and hearts; Bee Sweet, a trans-iendly hair salon that pric by the hour rather than the genr; and Tracks, one of Denver’s premier gay clubs, which has been spng dis balls and hostg Pri parti long before the neighborhood had a hip nickname. The rt of the year Wynwood, where rabow murals are evergreen and queer artists are well reprented at the famed Wynwood Walls, the neighborhood is home to one of the cy’s most popular drag bnch at the gay-owned R Hoe, as well as the equally popular weekly drag night seri, Double Stubble, at Circle, Washgton, DCHome to the US Supreme Court and the Human Rights Campaign, DC is the epicenter of many major ton for the LGBTQIA+ muny.

Instantly regnizable by s soarg rabow pylons lg the ma thoroughfare of North Halsted Street (hence the neighborhood name, Northalsted, a more clive name change om s prev moniker of Boystown), this is one of the olst areas the US to be officially regnized as a gay neighborhood.

GOLN STATE GEMS: A LOOK AT CALIFORNIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY URBAN HAVENS

The touristy Quarter, home to the cy’s inic Mardi Gras celebratns and the annual Southern Dence gay event, will always be an LGBTQIA+ mec, but jt beyond the her reach of Bourbon Street li a lmer, grtier, and arguably more thentic alternative for queer-iendly spac. Jeff Hammerberg is a distguished entreprenr and broker, and the visnary founr of For over 25 years, he has been a prolific wrer, ach, and thor who has been stmental advancg the e of fair, hont, and equable reprentatn for all members of the LGBTQ+ muny real tate matters., which he tablished, is the largt and longt-nng gay real tate agent referral service the natn, boastg over 3500 LGBTQ+ realtors who operate ci across the Uned Stat, Canada and Mexi. ” “LGBT mecs also have a mon orig story the arts, ” — Matthew Breen, edorial director at LogoJim Suguan, the former -owner and edor of Palm Sprgs’ erstwhile gay publitn the Bottom Le, remembers when the cy started buildg a loyal followg beyond regnal gay visors hopg to club-hop unr the radar.

In an email terview, Shoshanna McCollum, Fire Island rint and thor of Fire Island: Beach Rort and Natnal Seashore noted the ceptn of the gay prence the area, cg what may be the first documented stance of the almighty DINK (double e no kids) dollar: “The Great Deprsn and the Hurrine of ’38 vastated the muny [of Cherry Grove]. To assume that the world is not heterosexually normative or to assume that there is no longer persistg homophobia would be to ignore the obv — that even the most progrsive ci the untry, there are still gay bashgs, discrimatn and efforts to turn back progrs. Acrdg to the facts, Pleasant Ridge is the gayt place Michigan for more on how we lculated the top ten, and for more rmatn about the plac, read you’re lookg for somethg more natnal, check out the gayt ci more Michigan readg, check out:Bt Plac To Live In MichiganCheapt Plac To Live In MichiganMost Dangero Plac MichiganThe 10 Gayt Ci In Michigan For 2020Hoeholds: 1, 035Rank Last Year: 1 (No Change)Gay Hoeholds: 61 (27th hight)% Gay Hoeholds: 6.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAYT PLAC AMERI — AND HOW THEY ME TO BE

We looked at:Percentage of all hoeholds that are unmarried, same sex partnersWe limed the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 1, 000 ranked each place om 1 to 226 wh the cy ntag the hight percentage of unmarried, same sex partners hoeholds beg the most the end, end up beg the the most gay place wh 6. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the plac the state om gayt to You Have It – The Most LGBT Friendly Ci In Michigan For 2020If you’re lookg at the number of gay hoeholds Michigan, this is an accurate you’re cur enough, here are the least gay plac Michigan:ZeelandGrosse Pote ParkHoughtonFor more Michigan readg, check out:Richt Ci In MichiganSaft Plac In MichiganWorst Plac To Live In MichiganMost Expensive Plac To Live In MichiganDetailed List Of The Gayt Plac To Live In MichiganRankCyHoeholds% Gay Hoeholds1Pleasant Ridge1, 0356.

That means there are a total of 3, 794 gay hoeholds The Constutn goal wh this post is to e data and science to terme the gayt ci analyzg 23 ci wh over 1, 000 hoeholds, we’ve termed the are The Gayt Ci Connecticut for Bra (Photos)Norwich (Photos)Merin (Photos)Hartford (Photos)Danbury (Photos)Wt Haven (Photos)Norwalk (Photos)Middletown (Photos)Bridgeport (Photos)New London (Photos)What’s the gayt place Connecticut? Acrdg to the facts, New Bra is the gayt place Connecticut for more on how we lculated the top ten, and for more rmatn about the plac, read you’re lookg for somethg more natnal, check out the gayt ci more Connecticut readg, check out:Bt Plac To Live In ConnecticutCheapt Plac To Live In ConnecticutMost Dangero Ci In ConnecticutThe 10 Gayt Ci In Connecticut For 2020Hoeholds: 28, 383Rank Last Year: 3 (Up 2)Gay Hoeholds: 125 (6th hight)% Gay Hoeholds: 0.

We looked at:Percentage of all hoeholds that are unmarried, same sex partnersWe limed the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 1, 000 ranked each place om 1 to 23 wh the cy ntag the hight percentage of unmarried, same sex partners hoeholds beg the most the end, end up beg the the most gay place wh 0. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the plac the state om gayt to You Have It – The Most LGBT Friendly Ci In Connecticut For 2020If you’re lookg at the number of gay hoeholds Connecticut, this is an accurate you’re cur enough, here are the least gay plac Connecticut:DanielsonDerbyGrotonFor more Connecticut readg, check out:Richt Ci In ConnecticutSaft Plac In ConnecticutWorst Plac To Live In ConnecticutMost Expensive Plac To Live In ConnecticutDetailed List Of The Gayt Plac To Live In ConnecticutRankCyHoeholds% Gay Hoeholds1New Bra28, 3830.

GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020

In the last year, the Cuban health mistry unfurled an enormo rabow flag to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, and former print Raúl Castro clared that nontg homophobia remaed one of the ernment’s chief some Amerins, the velopments might seem to fly the face of the untry’s munist history.

East Germany reverted to a far ls strgent versn, drawg on the German Communist Party’s historic support for difference was strikg; while Wt Germany nvicted over 50, 000 men between 1949 and 1969 of homosexualy, East Germany nvicted only a ty actn of that number.

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In her memoir, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, perhaps the most famo trans woman German history, remembered gog to lively hoe parti Berl full of queer East the 1970s, a group of gay men and lbians began to meet East Berl, termed to rve out a public space for themselv.

BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'

It did so, part, bee activists had been adamant about amg their requts terms of the needs of socialism, emphasizg that creatg greater opportuni for queer East Germans would only strengthen their mment to short orr, the dictatorship promulgated a slew of liberal polici, om allowg queer people to serve the ary to equalizg the age of nsent to missng new books and movi about homosexualy.

Burecrats and policians argued that dog so would strengthen socialist society by better tegratg queer people to and dismantlg social a rult, the 1980s were a tly remarkable time for queer East Germans, what one of my terview partners lled “the most betiful gay time. Hot Hoe, Grove Archiv CollectnCherry Grove was one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat, jog a handful of LGBTQ vatn spots and rorts that beme popular the pre-Stonewall era, along wh plac like Provcetown, Massachetts, and Sgatuck-Douglas, Michigan.

Cherry Grove Archiv CollectnCherry Grove was different om the cy, where the gay bars were n by the mob, acrdg to Sargent, who scribed the urban waterg hol as “dark and seedy clubs” where “you always had to be reful that the lights would e on, ” signalg a police raid.

WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART

” Cherry Grove ntued to evolve after the 1950s, movg om a sanctuary for mostly whe and affluent gay men and women to a more clive place wh the advent of the 1960s, as the civil rights movement gaed tractn and more mercial real tate the area led to affordable hog optns for greater swaths of the muny.

So go ahead and wave that big, betiful rabow flag—and, jt maybe, zero on a place to buy a great new ’s also the perfect time to pse and regnize that while the Uned Stat has e a long way om the 1969 Stonewall rts, which sparked the morn gay rights movement, 2022 is on track to break the rerd for the number of anti-LGBTQ bills troduced stat across the untry, wh at least 320 highly rtrictive bills pendg state legislatur, acrdg to the rights group Freedom for All, as we do each year, ® searched for the most LGBTQ-iendly and affordable ci for homebuyers.

A BLACK MAN RAN TO GAY ENCLAV TO FEEL SAFE. BUT WAS HE WELE?

And while home pric have risen lately, they’re still way lower than the natn’s median list price of $447, 000 Rochter, the center of the cy’s gay neighborhood ns along the Park Avenue rridor, where buyers n grab this charmg two-bedroom, one-bathroom abo loted a few blocks off Park Avenue for $180, 000.

State pal wh an openly gay mayor, David centerpiece of the cy’s annual Pri celebratn, which n attract up to 100, 000 people, is the famed Illumated Night Para featurg floats, performg artists, and marchg of that, and homebuyers n get their hands on this 1, 200-square-foot, three-bed, one-bath charmer the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Province, listed for $275, 000. Dayton, OHDayton, OH(Getty Imag)Median home list price: $95, 000Dayton is one of a handful of Oh ci that are “leadg the way on LGBTQ cln a difficult state, ” acrdg to the Human Rights Oh don’t have statewi, prehensive laws that prohib discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals, Dayton is among the 35 loli that have enacted protectns agast discrimatn employment, hog, and public also offers an energetic and flourishg gay scene wh a plethora of clubs and nightclubs, an active LGBTQ-targeted outdoor recreatn group, and plenty of arts and cultural Pri is one of the regn’s longt-nng and largt LGBTQ events, a three-day celebratn.

Organizers say this year’s event is more important than ever as the Oh Legislature nsirs s own versn of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as well as a bill that would ban affirmg mental and medil re for LGBTQ Dayton’s LGBTQ muny is loted throughout the charmg cy, one of the more popular neighborhoods is the historic Oregon District, which happens to be listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Districts. One of his most recent projects saw Su film unrealized scen om “The Glamoro Boys of Tang, ” a homoerotic fantasy movie featurg i, killgs and an exorcism, that was released whout parts of the origal screenplay, as Su believ they were emed appropriate nservative 1980s Taiwan.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Wh Taiwan attemptg to tablish self as a mercial arts statn (the lnch of the Taipei Dangdai art fair 2019 signaled that the island may hope to challenge Hong Kong’s domatn of the Asian market), the island’s gay artists uld, turn, benef om the growg ternatnal profile. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTZach Stafford, the former edor chief of The Advote, traveled to gay safe havens as he has for so many summers, but the summer of 2020 was Valente for The New York TimPublished April 29, 2022Updated May 2, 2022Jt days after the panmic ma landfall New York Cy the sprg of 2020 — and right as the cy streets beme ghostly remrs of what was — I began to n every morng.

And I’d n, and then I’d n some beme apparent that the panmic was not endg anytime soon, I cid to get my r and n away even farther to muni that I had grown to love and where I thought I would feel the panmic h, I had bee one of those gays who spent his summers or special holidays at one of the var famo gay towns that were popularized the 1960s. It first began wh the lser-known (and ls expensive) Sgatuck, Mich., which bills self as the “most gay-iendly small town Michigan” and is popular among vatners om Chigo, Detro and as I ma more money and more iends, I graduated to rentg Palm Sprgs, then to Provcetown on the very tip of Cape Cod and fally to the most exclive: Fire Island P, the out-of-the-way vatn spot on Long Island. Black queer people jt do not have accs to the same pal the panmic, a flurry of anizatns mostly led by Black transgenr people have all tried to al wh this issue head-on — even outsi the perceived safety of the famo gay enclav that really beme cemented durg the H.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Why our muny’s margalizatn leads to be disproportnately engaged on urban issu mak perfect sense to Spks: “If you see your experience of the world that your block or cy is not signed to be welg to you whether you are Black, disabled, or gay, that triggers a sire to make change. Whether a subtle jab, as Stt Wley Brown sgg about “fools who march for the right to jtify their s, ” or more overtly the se of whe rapper Carman warng of “the homosexual San Francis trapped vile bondage, ” proment artists wh the genre have often peppered their lyrics wh reactnary homophobia.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. In an era of extremism and asslt rifl, daily gun aths and gag orrs on physicians agast speakg out for gun ntrol, the embolned fascists of Ameri are havg a wet dream - Islamic extremists slghterg gay people, a club that was advertisg black and Lata drag what are we to do? But Stonewall is the one that really got the foc, and started to really get the msage natnally, that we need to fight for our rights… All of those plac that I mentned were gay safe havens, gay bars or gay f that allowed to meet and to discs topics, and to plan protts or march, or whatever we were gog do.

'GAY BARCHIV' DOCUMENTS HISTORIC GAY BARS AS LGBTQ+ SAFE HAVENS THROUGHOUT THE U.S.

“As you are well aware, 40 years ago, there was no such thg as the ter, so the rerds of those bars that existed prr to, say, 2000 exist primarily eher other databas that amic stutns have assembled, or any pi of gay magaz that may have been prerved over the s, ” Smh explaed.

''Florida, Montana among worst for LGBTQ muny The x ranked stat acrdg to five areas: work environment, legal protectns, youth and fay support, health accs and safety, and polil and relig at the top tend to get more clive over the past year, while their lower-ranked peers beme ls tolerant or didn't move om where they were 'T SAY GAY LAWS SPARK FEAR:If they 'say gay, ' will my child be safe? Directed by Anthony Caronna and executive produced by Howard Gertler om Elon Green’s 2021 nonfictn book, “Last Call” pulls back the curta on the killg spree of Richard Rogers, a male nurse who, as far back as the 1980s and until 2001 when he was eventually ught by thori, targeted gay men New York and New Jersey. In the harrowg send episo of “Last Call, ” which is primarily foced on Marrero and the fallout wh the unrground gay muny of his murr, one of Rogers’ alleged attempted victims speaks anonymoly about his bsh wh someone whose MO sounds closely like the killer’s.

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In a timely harkeng to recent ntroversi surroundg The New York Tim’ verage of trans people, “Last Call” touch on the bias at the Tim and other New York media outlets that emed Rogers (before his inty was known) as the “gay-slay” killer obvly bee had a tchy, if--bleeds--leads rhyme to .

“The tth is [the village of] the P was very closeted and origally envisned as a straight muny, ” she ’d also like her podst to help dismantle the stereotype of Fire Island beg a haven strictly for whe cisgenr gay men, notg: “The tth is, is filled wh women and trans folks, particularly [the village of] Cherry Grove. Table of ntentsThe AsburyEmprs HotelBellevue Stratford InnAsbury Ocean ClubBerkeley Oceanont HotelThe Majtic HotelLagdon HotelCrystal InnMayfair HotelRed Roof Inn Neptune The Inn at Ocean GroveBt Gay Neighborhoods Asbury ParkBt Gay Bars / Clubs Asbury Park Bt Gay Snas Asbury Park Bt Gay Events/Shows/Tours Asbury Park The Asbury. The gay night life n be bt experienced one of the clubs mentned above, but is advisable to keep a keen md even there: It is not unlikely that the young man showerg you wh pliments is a prostute, and the police are rather strict their effort to nta prostutn, pecially as is gradually creasg Moroc.

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But if you’re to dive bars that leave your hair smellg like smoke for a week, gay bars, swgers clubs, or sweaty unrground salsa clubs, you n do until you regret BEACH GAY PRIDE PARADE | ATOMAZUL/SHUTTERSTOCKWhy Miami Is the Greatt Gay Dtatn AmeriBy BRANDON THORPSouth Florida is one of the great gay havens Ameri. On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refed to leave Dewey’s Rtrant Philalphia after employe repeatedly nied service to “homosexuals and persons wearg nonnformist clothg, ” acrdg to Dm magaze, which was created by the Jan Society, an early gay rights teens were arrted and charged wh disorrly nduct, and Jan Society members protted outsi of the rtrant for the next five days, acrdg to Marc Ste, a history profsor at San Francis State Universy.

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C., one of the first homophile groups ("homophile" beg the adjective of choice at the time), and he drew strategi directly om the Black civil rights movement, acrdg to Eric Cervi, a historian and thor of “The Deviant’s War, ” which foc on Kameny and the early gay rights movement.

(In fact, 1979, activists would anize a Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights, which drew an timated 200, 000 protters, acrdg to the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce) hold signs as they participate the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian & Gay Rights Washgton, DC, on Oct. A aln of gay and lbian anizatns held a yearly peaceful prott at Inpennce Hall lled the Annual Remr om 1965 to 1969, which Ste said were fluenced by the early civil rights monstratns which monstrators were stcted to drs rpectably, wh women drs and men sus.

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”“This ia of a aln between the two anizatns — that the Black Freedom Movement might be spirg this other group of Amerin cizens who are also margalized, and the fact that they may both be takg to the streets, perhaps ordatn — that is what sred them the most, ” Cervi said of the FBI and Southern racist Kameny and Mattache Society of Washgton members marchg New York, June Tob Lahen / NYPLHowever, the homophile movement, at least New York and Washgton, never ma that aln a realy, Cervi said he the word “plagiarism” to scribe how Kameny ed civil rights tactics whout workg wh or credg the activists whose tactics he ed.

Kuromiya -found the Gay Liberatn Front’s Philalphia chapter and beme a spokperson for a homosexual workshop at the Black Panther’s Revolutnary People's Constutnal Conventn September 1970, acrdg to gave a prentatn “to the huge dience of the nventn to applse, ” Ste said of Kuromiya, cg this as one of many exampl showg that the movements weren’t agmented or divid at the time some ci.

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Outlg the group’s posn on the two emergg movements, Newton wrote: “Whatever your personal opns and your securi about homosexualy and the var liberatn movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as opprsed groups), we should try to une wh them a revolutnary fashn.

DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS