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• SEATTLE NEXT GAY GHETTO
• GAY AREA WT SEATTLE
• ABOUT SMLSEATTLE MEN LEATHER IS A SOCIAL GROUP DITED TO SEATTLE'S GAY MEN'S LEATHER MUNY. SML PUTS ON REGULAR SOCIALS AND CREATIVE EVENTS. WE HOST SPEAKERS AND PUT ON CLASS ON ALL MANNER OF SUBJECTS RELATED TO LEATHER AND KK. WE ARE FOCED ON GIVG PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNY TO MEET REAL LIFE AND VELOP THE IENDSHIPS AND RELATNSHIPS THAT THE LEATHER MUNY HAS ALWAYS BEEN BUILT ON.THE GROUP ALSO FOSTERS RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER LEATHER AND KK GROUPS AND WORKS TOGETHER TO SUPPORT WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS. SML AIMS TO BE A PLACE WHERE THE NOVICE TO THE OLD PRO ARE WELE AND N FD A PLACE AMONG IENDS.”CO OF CONDUCT
• 4629 GAY AVE W,SEATTLE, WA 98199
• THE 5 BEST SEATTLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEATTLE
• MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

SEATTLE NEXT GAY GHETTO

When out gay men and lbians moved to ndown urban neighborhoods the late '60s and early '70s, they rented apartments no one else wanted, started bs on blocks where no one else thought bs uld thrive, and had sex unr bh that no one else wanted to have sex unr. Neighborhoods like New York's East Village, San Francis's Castro, Chigo's Lake View, and Seattle's Capol Hill slowly gentrified, wh hors of gays and lbians makg the once dicey neighborhoods safe for florists, rd shops, and sex clubs.

The clost most gays and lbians ever e to fdg a promised land is movg to the Gay Ghetto -- an urban neighborhood that is populated by, and reasonably tolerat, a large number of queers. For years, first-wave gay ghettos were kept lively and relevant by a nstant stream of young queer migrants arrivg om upstate New York, downstate Illois, ral California, and eastern Washgton. And for years, young queers movg to the gay ghettos uld rely on three thgs: cheap apartments, low-payg retail jobs, and lots of other young queers wh cheap apartments and low-payg retail jobs wh whom they uld swap sp and var sexually transmted diseas.

The social ntract that kept young queer migrants pourg to gay ghettos has been ptured; while the average Capol Hill apartment rented for $449 1990, go for $723 now.

GAY AREA WT SEATTLE

Gay ghettos are slowly turng to gay retirement muni, where the only queers who n afford to live the East Village or on Capol Hill are the on who bought apartments and ho 20 years ago when they were still relatively cheap.

Wh young queers forced to look elsewhere for hog, first-wave gay ghettos are on the cle, sapped of the energy and sex appeal of queer youngsters.

ABOUT SMLSEATTLE MEN LEATHER IS A SOCIAL GROUP DITED TO SEATTLE'S GAY MEN'S LEATHER MUNY. SML PUTS ON REGULAR SOCIALS AND CREATIVE EVENTS. WE HOST SPEAKERS AND PUT ON CLASS ON ALL MANNER OF SUBJECTS RELATED TO LEATHER AND KK. WE ARE FOCED ON GIVG PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNY TO MEET REAL LIFE AND VELOP THE IENDSHIPS AND RELATNSHIPS THAT THE LEATHER MUNY HAS ALWAYS BEEN BUILT ON.THE GROUP ALSO FOSTERS RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER LEATHER AND KK GROUPS AND WORKS TOGETHER TO SUPPORT WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS. SML AIMS TO BE A PLACE WHERE THE NOVICE TO THE OLD PRO ARE WELE AND N FD A PLACE AMONG IENDS.”CO OF CONDUCT

Queers set out, like herds of faaabulo ribou, search of the next gay ghetto. All over the Uned Stat, young gays and lbians priced out of tablished gay ghettos are lonizg new neighborhoods, seekg out cheap rents and openg trendy rtrants.

While 's clear that Seattle's young queers are turng away om Capol Hill, 's not clear which Seattle neighborhood will emerge as Seattle's next big gay ghetto.

4629 GAY AVE W,SEATTLE, WA 98199

In orr to facilate the mass migratn of Seattle's low-e and recently arrived queer migrants, we sent three wrers to three potential new gay ghettos.

In asssg the fns of var neighborhoods for gay-ghettoizatns, we looked at four creria: Average rent for a stud apartment, potential for a gay dance club, potential public sex environment, and average age of current rints (on the theory that the olr the average rints, the faster the apartment turnover). Which fortunate neighborhood will emerge as Seattle's new gay ghetto? WEST SEATTLE Average Rent for Stud Apartment: $569 Potential Gay Dance Palace: Any empty warehoe on Wt Margal Way Potential Public Sex Environment: Lln Park Average Age of Rints: 38 s Seattle's old-guard queers tire of battlg wannab and lossal monthly rents, they are abandong the once sacred Hill by the fistful.

THE 5 BEST SEATTLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SEATTLE

An abundance of factors, cludg accsibily, shoppg, nightlife, reasonable rent, and at least one public park wh foliage ample enough to nceal midnight discretn all terme a neighborhood's potential as a gay ghetto. Many gays and lbians have already begun to ll Wt Seattle home.

MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

In termg the potential of Wt Seattle as Seattle's new gay ghetto, many factors e to play. First is important to intify the number of public schools, dayre facili, nursg hom, muny centers, church, and siar tablishments that are not only of posively no e to queer people, but may even reprent a tangible threat to attag the cril mass necsary to create a tly gay ghetto. One of the most fundamental elements of any te gay ghetto is the prence of at least one primarily gay waterg hole and/or dance spot.

The ever-tougheng dnk drivg laws and the general repulsivens of public transportatn would make livg Wt Seattle and partyg at Seattle's current gay hotspots -- now exclively Capol Hill and downtown -- nearly impossible. Although none are exclively gay (yet), Wt Seattle is home to a few funky and potentially queer bars and loung that are ripe for vasn: the Pagoda Room (spicly remiscent of the Hill's Ja Pagoda) and the Lizzard Lounge among them. "The Junctn, " Wt Seattle's hoppg and chic bs district, provis many tablishments dispensable to gay life: mic, book, and retail stor, hairdrsers, galleri, naturopathic physicians and acupuncturists for the immune-impaired, and f.