The 'gaytrifitn' effect: why gay neighbourhoods are beg priced out | Ci | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY UPL AT HOME THE VILLAG
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
• THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT
• 100+ GAYBORHOODS, GAY VILLAG, AND GAYTN DTATNS THE USA
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS THE VILLAG, FL
• GAY DATG IN THE VILLAG, FLORIDA, UNED STAT
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

GAY UPL AT HOME THE VILLAG

"You n tell jt about anyone around here that you're gay, and you won't have a problem, '' said Villag rint Lda Bernat. Wily known as a cril votg bloc for right-wg ndidat, is also, ls nspicuoly, home to a thrivg gay Rabow club has no head unt — years of discrimatn have ma the gay muny leery of lists — but emails reach close to 2, leads to creasgly crlo qutns:1. What would posss so many gays to live a rabidly right-wg muny?

How did the gay muny feel fortable enough to throw weekly dance parti at a untry club? (It's also why lbians say they far outnumber gay men here. ''It was the ncept of never havg to leave the neighborhood — the Villag has more than 100 rtrants, 45 golf urs, partment stor and almost every other necsy — that attracted Garv and O'Donnell om San Diego a social clubs for every nceivable persuasn already the Villag, the ia of gettg gay rints together seemed a is, until O'Donnell and Garv first tried 10 years ago.

We met wh a lot of ristance om the gay muny, '' Garv said. Gay upl who had grown fortable the muny, and were fancially secure retirement, no longer saw a reason to hi.

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

While gay rints threw a prott-ee celebratn a town square after the recent Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriag, there were a number of hate-filled ments on lol msage boards Joseph Flynn, the Villag Democratic Club director, says those who sport liberal bumper stickers still n the risk of beg Flynn and Rabow members say the image of the Villag beg overn by the tea party is exaggerated and outdated. HomoSexual Mal The Villag?? How are homosexual upl received The Villag??

However, after visg the gay retirement havens of Ft.

I would love to have a gay uple as my neighbor! I thk a gay uple (male or female) will be more welg of a sgle female than a heterosexual uple will be.

CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS

I should probably also pot out that I've had lots of exposure to gay men and am probably more acceptg than most. In "the day" (begng the early 70's), I began gog to gay (mostly men) bars a few nights a week, where I would dance the night away.

THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT

Some of my bt iends were gay. We have good iends that live Calumet and their neighbors are gay.

Some gay, some lbian, a uple their 30s, several their 80s. Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah.

100+ GAYBORHOODS, GAY VILLAG, AND GAYTN DTATNS THE USA

The Lake Bluff Village Board is nsirg raisg a gay pri flag on a village flagpole, but tste are lookg for addnal rmatn before takg formal members discsed the ia at a July 10 Commtee of the Whole meetg, rumg a nversatn that began at a June ssn after two rints ntacted village officials supportg the ia of raisg a pri flag, acrdg to village documents.

Image source, CrimtoppersImage ptn, Detectiv are lookg for masked men seen on a motorbikeA £2, 000 reward has been offered for rmatn about "abhorrent" attacks on a shop Manchter's Gay Village. The bike was also ed three prev attacks, Crimtoppers anisatn said was a distctive red/orange off-road style GASGAS bike, which was thought to have been ed durg attacks at the store on 2 March, 13 April and 24 ptn, Clonezone Manchter scrib self as a "gay superstore"The chary has offered up to £2, 000 for rmatn that leads to the arrt and nvictn of those volved the attacks.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS THE VILLAG, FL

Regnal manager for the North Wt, Gary Murray, said Manchter was "renowned for many thgs, cludg s diversy and world-famo Gay Village". ”In many ways, the 29-year-old’s experience is typil of a host of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr cy-dwellers. Seekg both an acceptg muny and affordable rent, they have often flocked together cheaper areas of ner ci, such as gay-iendly Williamsburg.

This is a phenomenon that has also stck straight pubs and clubs, of urse; ’s jt that, unlike gay venu, they don’t yet risk beg an endangered all reasons for the closur are entirely bad. People are startg to wonr: is gentrifitn sted to make so-lled gay villag a thg of the past?

GAY DATG IN THE VILLAG, FLORIDA, UNED STAT

Photograph: Ron Gerelli/Getty ImagWhile Bra the wang of gay-intified neighbourhoods is largely nfed to London, outsi the UK is a phenomenon that is beg played out across many wtern ci. Amerins have been batg the rapid parture of gay bs and hom areas New York, Boston, Seattle and San Francis, among many other ci. On the other, there’s awarens that the people who equent them (gay men particular) have a reputatn as the shock troops of gentrifitn.

Affluent and unhampered by children – or so the myth go – this group is always the g vanguard of gentrifyg areas, pricg out long-term lols and leavg behd a trail of look-but-don’t-touch furnure shops and overpriced are urban gay people who are watchg their stutns and neighbourhoods disappear merely reapg what they sowed? A Gay Pri para New York Cy. Those wh the means were th more likely to look for hog that was cheap enough to buy outright: for example, 1950s Soho (for gay men) and the Hebn Bridge, Wt Yorkshire, of the 1960s and 70s (for lbians).

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

Florida’s theory placed gay people at the heart of urban regeneratn, part of a gentrifyg vanguard along wh creative and tech workers and “high bohemians”, who together helped to repopulate and refurbish prevly ndown urban areas. If this tolerance of gay people is matched by a higher level of foreign-born rints and racial mixg, is even more likely to attract the creative workers on which a cy’s enomic succs pends. In other words, the more gay people your cy attracts, the more tolerant is likely to Jo Jo’s nightclub London’s Soho was forced to close November 2014.

Acrdg to soclogy profsor Am Ghaziani, who rearched the subject extensively while wrg his book, There Go the Gayborhood?, there is evince om North Ameri to back up assumptns that LGBT rints boost property pric.

“We know that areas that have large ncentratns of gays and lbians experience greater creas hog pric pared to the US natnal average, ” Ghaziani says. ”Intertgly, this procs isn’t necsarily started by gay men. When gay men arrive, however, they tend to build new stutns – new rtrants, stor, bars – and property valu start to rise.