Most affordable gay neighborhoods - Jun. 19, 2012

Contents:

• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD
• GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS PHILALPHIA, PA (2023 UPDATED)
• TOP GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• MOST AFFORDABLE GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS 10 MAJOR CI
• MOVG TO GAY PENNSYLVANIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

Unlike obv, self-ntaed gay neighborhoods such as The Castro, Boystown, and the French Quarter, Philalphia's queer havens are more accurately scribed as LGBTQ+-iendly districts, wh one exceptn. Philly also serv cred for promotg gay tourism wh s "Get your history straight and your nightlife gay" marketg strategy of the early ghts (via Philalphia Magaze).

GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD

Gayish events that enrich all of s 100 neighborhoods clu the Philalphia Frge Arts Ftival, recals by the Philalphia Gay Men's Chos, and performanc by baret stalwarts The Beard Ladi. Washgton Square Wt, the heart of The Gayborhood, pris the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets.

Acrdg to EATER Philalphia, Philalphia's last lbian bar standg, the Gayborhood's Toasted Walnut Bar & Kchen, closed last year. Inclive and acceptg Fishtown is wh easy walkg and bikg distance of gay-iendly Northern Liberti, also a good-for-walkg neighborhood. And straight and gay sports fans n watch the Philli at South Philly's Cizens Bank Park or the Eagl at Lln Fancial Field.

This neighborhood on the northwt outskirts of the cy has morphed om a grty dtrial sectn to a veted rintial neighborhood and om a blue-llar zone to a gay-iendly one.

GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS PHILALPHIA, PA (2023 UPDATED)

Extra Space Storage lculat that gay-iendly Manayunk is one of Philalphia's saft neighborhoods, wh 86% ls crime than elsewhere.

TOP GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

Though 's about 30 outsi of the cy lims, no survey of pro-gay Philly neighborhoods would be plete whout a nod to LGBTQ+-welg satelle New Hope and s across-the-Delaware River sister Lambertville, New Jersey. The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965. And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365.

The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995.

You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.

Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns.

MOST AFFORDABLE GAY-IENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS 10 MAJOR CI

The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA).

In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.

Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers. A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center.

MOVG TO GAY PENNSYLVANIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground. It ntued, "The cy is home to several civil rights, advocy and LGBT youth anizatns cludg the Bread & Ros Communy Fund, the Spce Foundatn and the Gay and Lbian Lato AIDS Edutn Iniative. Standg directly across the street om Inpennce Hall, a historic marker honors the Annual Remrs, the monstratn held at this se led by gay activists on July 4 om 1965 to 1969, the last of which occurred jt days after the history-makg Stonewall Rts.

Philalphia was the first cy the Uned Stat to lnch a major marketg mpaign (“Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®”) to wele LGBTQ+ tourism, and reprents a trove of cultural, culary, artistic and ethnic diversy.

Don’t miss a vis to the Gayborhood, a Center Cy neighborhood that sets self apart wh rabow street signs as well as rtrants and bars owned by and terg to LGBTQ+-intified clientele. Defely don't md livg a "straight area" (all our iends are straight), but we want to feel safe and be able to teract wh lol gays at a bar, etc.