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Contents:
- VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY
- MOVG TO LGBT WTCHTER, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- GAY WTCHTER
- WTCHTER/HUDSON VALLEY GAYS & LBIANS!
- LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WTCHTER COUNTY, NY
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WTCHTER COUNTY, NY
VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY
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All thgs nsired, Wtchter is a good place to be gay. But the lack of a hive muny and the arth of gay meetg plac n be difficult for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rints.
“People might not know the cheerful pharmacist is gay or the mail rrier is a lbian. “There’s no ‘gayborhood’ Wtchter, ” says Juhren. The LOFT is the center of gay life Wtchter.
MOVG TO LGBT WTCHTER, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
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Gay polics.
Gay Marriage. Wtchter’s gay marriage laws are also more progrsive than those of New York State as a whole. In 2006, a nservative group lled the Alliance Defense Fund sued, claimg Spano didn’t have the right to regnize gay marriag.
There has actually been at least one gay Wtchter weddg legally regnized by New York: the marriage of Whe Plas lbian uple Joann Przivalli and Tdy Katz. Acrdg to a recent survey of transgenr life by the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 21 percent of trangenred people reported an attractn to the same genr. “Straight transpeople n’t get married, but gay transpeople n.
GAY WTCHTER
“No gay ghetto”. A gay muny ually isn’t a top reason. “I get emails all the time askg me where Wtchter’s a good place to live if you’re gay, ” says Gregg Cartage of Pound Ridge, who ns The LOFT’s parentg group.
The fay later moved to Cortlandt Manor, where they are the only gay parents they know of their kids’ elementary school. The uple miss the gay muny they had Hell’s Kchen.
WTCHTER/HUDSON VALLEY GAYS & LBIANS!
He says they haven’t taken much advantage of the gay muny at The LOFT bee, like many Wtchter fai, they’re by wh work and fay. Many gay upl are preoccupied wh their fai and rponsibili, and see no need for a gay bar. Ask an olr gay Wtchter rint about the nightlife, and you’ll hear about how much better ed to be.
LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WTCHTER COUNTY, NY
In the 1980s and 1990s, there were at least four gay bars and rtrants Wtchter— Whe Plas and Port Chter.
For a full-time gay bar, rints mt head to Barz Nyack, New York, or to one of the many optns New York Cy. Everyone has his or her own theory on the cle of the Wtchter gay bar: homophobic landlords, petn om New York Cy, an olr crowd.
“There ed to be a place we lled Rosie’s, a great gay rtrant Whe Plas, ” says Vnie of Yorktown. This phenomenon of gay bars leavg and not beg replaced isn’t unique to Wtchter.
LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WTCHTER COUNTY, NY
A 2008 study at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health entled “Are Gay Communi Dyg or Jt Transn? ” found that the number and populary of gay bars and clubs were cle the 17 ci 14 different untri surveyed.
Elements is not a gay bar, but ’s really opened s doors to .
One recent Sunday night, the crowd was mostly young gay men, wh a smatterg of lbians and straight women—cludg Aimee Feeney, of Silver Lake, who was celebratg her 22nd birthday.