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IT’S timated that gay men and lbians make around five per cent of Atralia’s populatn but some suburbs are so popular wh gay people that ’s likely every fifth person you walk past is far om straight. * sydney gay suburbs *

IT’S timated that gay men and lbians make around five per cent of Atralia’s populatn but some suburbs are so popular wh gay people that ’s likely every fifth person you walk past is far om straight. Data om the Atralian Bure of Statistics (ABS) tailed the untry’s most popular areas for gay men and lbians to live each major rults throw up some surpris cludg that probably the suburb most fiercely associated wh heterosexualy is fact one of the gayt. In addn, one 10 Atralian gay men live wh a brisk walk of one another.

Put those two facts together and you know how many gay upl there are a suburb. ONE IN 10 GAY MEN LIVE NEAR DARLINGHURSTOne of the unexpected fdgs om the rearch was the sheer domance of Sydney the rankgs of most gay-iendly burbs — so lled ‘gaybourhoods’ NSW had jt unr a third of Atralia’s populatn, the state had 41 per cent of Atralia’s male same-sex upl.

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“The top ten suburbs for gay upl were all ner Sydney, ” the ABS spokman said. “No ls than one 10 gay men a same-sex relatnship live wh two kilometr of Taylor Square Darlghurst which has long been nsired the epicentre of Atralia’s gay muny.

So will e as no surprise that this suburb, on Sydney’s eastern ge, is Atralia’s gayt wh almost 18 per cent of s upl beg two gentlemen on Darlo’s fabuloly stylish heels is Potts Pot, the suburb which clus Kgs Cross that wh s strip clubs and beer barns is, perhaps mistakenly, thought to be a hotbed of ’S RAINBOW RIBBONThe 10 Atralian suburbs wh the hight proportn of gay upl n a ntuo curve huggg Sydney’s CBD. This ‘rabow ribbon’ of gays and lbians shimmi through the terrac of Surry Hills and morn apartments of Alexandria to the terrac of Newtown and further wt to Marrickville and Dulwich Hill. While gay men ngregate Sydney’s ner east, female same-sex upl look towards the ner wt of Sydney plac such as St Peters and Newtown.

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Brendan Fzgibbon, a landspe sign nsultant, moved to the ner cy five years ago, “bee Darlghurst needs more gays, ” he told, tongue firmly tra-off for cy centre livg is a smaller apartment then he might get further out, but he said this was easily outweighed by the lol ameni. ”But he was surprised as many as eight out of ten upl Darlghurst were straight “When you walk down the street feels like ’s 80 per cent gay and only 20 per cent straight. ”LESBIANS LIVING FURTHER OUTThat’s not to say Atralia’s other pal ci are bereft of gay people.

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The fewer amount of gay upl outsi of Sydney mak the figur ls accurate but wh data om the ABS and some back of the envelope number cnchg, do seem that Melbourne’s CBD is so chock-a-block wh gay men ’s likely to be the gayt ’burb Victoria. It’s a pot backed up by the ABS who say gay women are closer to straight upl when to the typ of hom they choose to live than gay men. “Around half of male same-sex upl lived a un or terrace hoe, pared wh ls than a third of female same-sex upl and 15 per cent of oppose-sex upl, ” the ABS spokman ON THE GOLD COASTIn Brisbane, the cy ge suburbs of New Farm and Fortu Valley sred highly but the Gold Coast also has signifint numbers of gay Wtern Atralia, the Perth CBD and Bayswater were popular spots; South Atralia, Unley and central Alai were top of the list while Tasmania, they were North and Wt Hobart.

Proportnally, the ACT had more gay and lbian upl than any other state or terrory while the Northern Terrory was popular wh lbians.

Regnal areas, generally, had lower numbers of gay people.

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