Movg To LGBT Brooklyn? How To Fd Your Perfect Gay Neighborhood!

Contents:

• MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• MOVG TO LGBT BROOKLYN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• MOST AFFORDABLE GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS 10 MAJOR CI

MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

No other neighborhood New York Cy (and perhaps, the untry) holds as much historil and cultural signifince for s role the gay liberatn movement as Greenwich Village.

MOVG TO LGBT BROOKLYN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Ed data sets, cludg cens data and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce’s public list of LGBT-owned bs, to velop an algorhm that intified the amount of LGBTQ bars, venu, social servic, muny anizatns, and var groups wh neighborhoods. Dpe havg homophobic and transphobic vlence the area recent years, Jackson Heights Queens was regnized sce is home to the send largt pri para the cy and has plenty of grassroots anizatns that are workg to crease acceptance the muny. 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. “Transient parti or monthly celebratns often replace signated gay bars, which are a clg form of nightlife throughout the natn.

MOST AFFORDABLE GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS 10 MAJOR CI

In many neighborhoods, New York Cy’s openly gay and lbian elected officials not only reprent their muni, but have been a drivg force makg their muni more welg to LGBTQ dividuals. (There are currently five members of Cy Council’s LGBT Cc, four openly gay or lbian state legislators, and gubernatorial ndidate Cynthia Nixon is openly bisexual. The Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce data also shows that the largt clter of LGBT-owned bs the cy are there.

Chelsea is home to proment natnal LGBTQ anizatns, like the media watchdog, GLAAD; the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN); and a Servic & Advocy for GLBT Elrs (SAGE) office.

Further north, Hell’s Kchen offers a plethora of nightlife, particularly gay bars cltered along Nth Avenue. “It is still one of the largt centers of LGBTQ bars, anizatns, historic s and monuments, like the Stonewall Natnal Monument and the Gay Liberatn sculpture, and remas the disputably appropriate lotn for the NYC Pri March to culmate, ” Kancilia said.

The Potters Hoe Church of the Livg God is a gay-iendly hoe of worship, welg those who may not feel wele some lol church. The ftival was anized by the Third Avenue Bs Improvement District, which held a fundraiser for — lled the “Big Gay Bronx Bnch” — at Charlie’s Bar & Kchen Mott Haven’s hip, historic clock tower buildg. Earlier this year Dtatn Tomorrow announced plans to build an LGBT center Melrose to further provi safe spac for the Bronx LGBT muny and work to end homophobia and transphobia.

Cy Councilman Rchie Torr, the borough’s first openly gay elected official, led the ph for the project. Beyond this clter of nightlife optns, the neighborhood is home to the Queens Pri Hoe, the Queens Center for Gay Senrs and the Dari Project, a grassroots group aimed at creasg acceptance of LGBTQ people of Korean scent Korean Amerin muni. Daniel Dromm, the area’s openly gay Cy Councilman, -found the para nearly 30 years ago — ially held at a neighborhood gay bar.