The view om Hillcrt, San Diego’s gayborhood - OUT FRONT

Contents:

• SAN DIEGO GAY GUI AND PHOTO GALLERY - HILLCRT GAY GUI
• HILLCRT: GAYBORHOOD OR GHETTO?
• SAN DIEGO GAY DISTRICT: HILLCRT
• THE VIEW OM HILLCRT, SAN DIEGO’S GAYBORHOOD
• HILLCRT SQUEEZ GAY HISTORY AND CHEAPER HOG
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

SAN DIEGO GAY GUI AND PHOTO GALLERY - HILLCRT GAY GUI

Sunny and spectacularly suated San Diego is one of the great playgrounds of the Wt among gay and lbian travelers. The cy's once-staid downtown now abounds wh hip hotels and lively rtrants, while such gay-iendly neighborhoods as Hillcrt, North Park, and Universy Heights are hot spots for gay clubbg and bar-hoppg, dg, and shoppg.

HILLCRT: GAYBORHOOD OR GHETTO?

Although San Diego has bee creasgly eclectic terms of where gays and lbians live and socialize, the heart of the GLBT scene still centers on the btlg Hillcrt neighborhood, which is jt a few blocks northwt of Balboa Park, and a 10-mute drive north of downtown.

Many of the cy's gay bars, as well as gay-popular rtrants and shops, are Hillcrt, generally along Universy Avenue as well as tersectg 4th and 5th avenu.

Jt northeast and east of Hillcrt lie two more San Diego neighborhoods wh strong gay and lbian followgs, Universy Heights and North Park. Wh Hillcrt to the wt, North Park is one of San Diego's most diverse - and que gay-popular - neighborhoods.

SAN DIEGO GAY DISTRICT: HILLCRT

North Park has a handful of gay bars, and many of the shops, ffeeho, and rtrants this neighborhood have a sizable GLBT followg. The Mgei, as well as the park's other key mms, are jt around the rner om San Diego's most gay-popular neighborhood, Hillcrt - fact, 's only about a 15- to 20-mute walk and a que pleasant one at that. As you drive to the parkg area for San Diego's gay-popular Blacks Beach (jt north of La Jolla), you'll pass the Torrey P Glirport (858-452-9858), om which hang glirs and paraglirs part throughout the day.

One of the natn's inic nu beach, San Diego's majtilly suated Black's Beach is also a favore hangout of gay men and lbians - clothed, partially clothed, sntily clothed, unclothed, and all permutatns thereof. You'll almost always see a bunch of gay guys parked here checkg out the scene and each other.

THE VIEW OM HILLCRT, SAN DIEGO’S GAYBORHOOD

Y, lots of warngs and preutns here (jt to be on the safe si), but this is a splendid spot for beach lovers, naturists, and gay folks jt wantg to be themselv out the sun. One of San Diego's most gay-popular neighborhoods outsi of Hillcrt, Universy Heights is an attractive, mostly rintial area jt north of Hillcrt and wt of Normal Heights, on a bluff above and jt south of Missn Valley. Park Boulevard has an creasgly trendy mix of rtrants, f, and shops, pl the highly popular gay bar, Bourbon Street, and the GLBT-oriented pennt performance space, the Diversnary Theatre (the natn's third-olst queer stage).

Baja Betty's, a mpy gay rtrant and lounge Hillcrt. SRO Lounge, an old-school dive-y gay bar on Bankers Hill.

HILLCRT SQUEEZ GAY HISTORY AND CHEAPER HOG

Rich's gay dance club, on Universy Avenue Hillcrt. San Diego Eagle, a popular gay leather bar North Park.

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

San Diego Eagle gay bar.

Urban's Mo's gay bar and rtrant, on Universy Avenue Hillcrt.

Numbers, a gay dance club on Park Boulevard Hillcrt. Numbers Gay Bar, San Diego.