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Contents:
- THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
- MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
- MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
From Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Lake Merrt, Oakland, here are the new gayborhoods of the US. * the gay neighborhood *
It was home to a handful of gay bars like The Eagle and The Spike, as well as one of the first known gay dance clubs, Seventeenth Saloon, where an eclectic range of gay men mgled.
Rent was nsirably cheaper than the popular, next-door neighborhood of the Wt Village, and gay-owned shops eventually opened along Eighth Avenue. Chelsea beme a wonrful bubble for the gay muny, and no one uld pop .
Through the s, gay bars ntued to open, like Splash, Barracuda, and G Lounge, and morn, gay-owned boutiqu like Mal + Goetz started replacg ubiquo sex shops.
MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
* the gay neighborhood *
No other neighborhood was more gay-approved, though Chelsea’s strength beme s weakns: the neighborhood was gettg crowd, mercialized, and too expensive for longtime rints. When nobody thought Chelsea uld be out-gayed, gay men and women started headg north where they sentially found Hell’s Kchen at the turn of the 21st century.
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Hell’s Kchen was rough around the edg, but paratively cheaper and already settled by a small muny of gay artists, dancers, and performers nsirg s close proximy to the Theater District. Two relatively unknown gay bars were slgg cktails and blastg show tun and, soon enough, the unr-the-radar Hell’s Kchen somewhat rivaled Chelsea, boastg more than a dozen gay bar opengs wh the past 15 years, and beg home to a thrivg LGBT muny.
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Hell’s Kchen beme the new Chelsea, though too fell victim to gay gentrifitn where rents often doubled, rporatns set up shop, and many rints uld no longer afford . Gay gentrifitn is a double-edge sword, and ’s all too mon when the gays fd a new neighborhood to flip. Acrdg to Am Ghaziani, thor of the book There Go the Gayborhood?, LGBT rints boost property pric.
“We know that areas that have large ncentratns of gays and lbians crease hog pric pared to the US natnal average, ” he told the Guardian. Nobody knows what the next big gay neighborhood will be; that’s how gentrifitn works.
But all really tak is cheap rent, the openg of one gay-owned bs, and a visn to make the neighborhood flourish wh rabow lors. Like Chelsea and Hell’s Kchen, many distctive neighborhoods across Ameri have served as a bastn for gay men and women, providg a safe space and forward-thkg muny sce the morn gay movement began.