Three strik and you're out, Chelsea. After beg lled "faggot" three tim durg the past summer while walkg the once-predomantly-gay neighborhood, we cid to move.
Contents:
- NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
- CHELSEA: THE DEATH OF A GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, MURRED BY NEO-HETERO-HOMOPHOB
NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
New York is a mag for gays, wh the LGBT muny reprentg an timated 500, 000 people. Wh such a robt muny, 's clear that New York's populatn is one of the most gay-iendly the world.
Ined, there are plenty of gay plac throughout the cy.
It's here where the gay civil rights movement started after the rt 1969. Dpe this history, 's Chelsea that holds the torch as the gayt neighborhood New York. Gay bars Chelsea.
CHELSEA: THE DEATH OF A GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, MURRED BY NEO-HETERO-HOMOPHOB
If you fancy venturg outsi of Chelsea, don't dispair, there are many more gay bars New York. Disver the Metropolan Communy Church of New York (446 Wt 36th St) which serv as the church for the LGBT muny, and where gays n get married. Before the Stonewall rts the summer of 1969, Greenwich Village had already long been the origal “Gayborhood.
” The uprisg, largely led by transgenr women, put the Village, and New York Cy, on the map as a gay mec, and spurred the creatn of LGBT rights groups natnwi.
The list shows that gayborhoods have evolved om plac anchored by servic, bars, and large queer muni — like the Village and Chelsea — to smaller, more diffe enclav throughout the boroughs. Although the servic and bars are ls ncentrated, the existence of newer gayborhoods monstrate the ntued need for LGBTQ safe havens, s for anizg and ristg the stat quo, and plac to socialize and love eely are still need.