SF's Castro, Greenwich Village, 'gayborhoods' pricg out LGBT people

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• 'GAYBORHOODS' ED TO BE LGBT SAFE HAVENS. NOW, MANY LGBT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PRICED OUT
• SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE
• THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT
• GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG CALIFORNIA’S INIC GAY MUNI

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

-- The San Francis metropolan area has the hight percentage of the adult populatn who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) of any of the top 50 U.

The rults are based on rpons to the qutn, "Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

'GAYBORHOODS' ED TO BE LGBT SAFE HAVENS. NOW, MANY LGBT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PRICED OUT

The San Francis metropolan area has a higher percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr than any other cy the untry, a new survey found. The cy, named the “Gay Capal of the U. LGBT stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr.

The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Have legalized gay marriage. For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. San Francis and Santa Rosa are nsired the gayt ci the U.

SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE

For better or worse, inic "gayborhoods" are gettg way more expensive, pricg out LGBT people the procs.

"The gayer the block, the faster ris value, " Am Ghaziani told USA TODAY. Ghaziani is a profsor of soclogy at the Universy of Brish Columbia and thor of There Go The Gayborhood?

THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT

But gets worseGhaziani rearched the creased gentrifitn and risg st of gayborhoods, and his fdgs show that areas wh larger populatns of same-genr hoeholds rrelate to real-tate valu that are higher than the average. Rearch by Zillow released May echo the fdgs: Most gay neighborhoods have higher home valu than their surroundgs, sometim to the tune of double or triple the home value. Evince also suggts the neighborhoods' gay inti are Jon, a longtime LGBT activist San Francis, has said recent years that the Castro has largely sloughed off s gay inty favor of a largely heterosexual, "techie" populatn.

“In time, there will be gay flags, but no gay people, " he told the Fancial did this happen? And soon after, fai began movg back to month:Compani lnch rabow-themed products and donate to LGBTQ nonprofs"The ameni and jobs near and those urban centers ma hive, tolerant gayborhoods pecially attractive plac to live, drivg up hog sts the muni, " Sarah Mikharian, a senr enomist at Zillow, told USA overall st of livg big ci has risen drastilly.

"As mass of straight people wanted to move back to big ci, he says that moneyed dividuals lookg to sh on the urban boom "followed" the gays. "His fdgs have shown that the populatn of LGBT people gayborhoods has fallen. Rearch by Florida State Universy profsor Petra Doan shows that once the LGBT populatn has been oted due to gentrifitn, former "gayborhoods" bee ls welg to LGBT people.

GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG CALIFORNIA’S INIC GAY MUNI

Contrary to the notn that gayborhood rints are affluent, said Ghaziani, LGBT people are more likely to be poverty. "While the neighborhoods still provi a sense of muny and social acceptance, rints often pay a hefty premium to live there, " Mikharian 's not jt straight peopleA slew of hog nflicts are takg place, not only jt om straight transplants to gayborhoods — but also between specific sects of the LGBT risg sts of gayborhoods disproportnately affect people of lor, women and trans women, Mikharian said. 50 years after raid:Stonewall veterans return to New York Cy to celebrate PriAddnally, trans people are often harassed and attacked out of existg gayborhoods by s gay, lbian and bisexual populatn.

Ls than half of trans people Doan surveyed felt that the gayborhoods they lived are safe, she though the LGBT populatn fac poverty as a whole, wealth is further stratified wh the LGBT muny. A study published 2018 by the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law found that lbian, gay and bisexual people are more likely to be livg poverty than their straight peers.