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• THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT
• MOVG TO LGBT COLUMB, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• 40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS
• FAR BEYOND THE GAY VILLAGE: LGBTQ URBANISM AND GENERATN MONTRéAL’S MILE END

THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT

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MOVG TO LGBT COLUMB, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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Acrdg to soclogy profsor Am Ghaziani, who rearched the subject extensively while wrg his book, There Go the Gayborhood?, there is evince om North Ameri to back up assumptns that LGBT rints boost property pric. “We know that areas that have large ncentratns of gays and lbians experience greater creas hog pric pared to the US natnal average, ” Ghaziani says.

Urban areas where LGBTs both lived and played may have spng up easily the sprawl of Amerin ci, but the UK’s gay villag simply don’t f the same template. Even s ndown phase, London’s Soho was too expensive and domated by mercial property to attract a massive ncentratn of gay ’s still a pattern clearly regnisable the UK to the procs Ghaziani scrib. The muny anisatn LGBT Detro has been tryg to enurage the (unofficial) foundg of a gay village the cy, as a way of providg more solidary and support for a muny that’s weaker for beg geographilly the anisatn’s director Curtis Lipsb explas: “We had a few areas where LGBT people moved to after the send world war, but they lasted only until the last major whe flight, when a large number of whe gays and lbians moved to the northern suburbs.

40 BT GAY DTATNS WORLDWI, ACRDG TO TRAVELERS

”But isn’t fosterg a gay-iendly neighbourhood likely to create a suatn where LGBT people only end up beg moved on by gentrifitn, even beleaguered Detro? So while you might have some [straight] rints who bee terted a [gay-iendly] neighbourhood once starts showg visual improvements, you still have people wh strong negative feelgs about LGBT people. Like Reno, Oklahoma Cy, Louisville, and other mid-sized ci the USA, there is a queer scene here but is much more low-key than say, New York or Los Angel – which is why a gay realtor Columb Cy is worth their weight gold as they n help you navigate as you fd your new perfect home here the most gay-iendly neighborhood.

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FAR BEYOND THE GAY VILLAGE: LGBTQ URBANISM AND GENERATN MONTRéAL’S MILE END

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