Big cy gaybourhoods: where they e om and why they still matter

Contents:

• SYDNEY HAS ATRALIA’S MOST POPULAR SUBURBS WH GAYS AND LBIANS
• GAYS NOT WELE: THE MSAGE OM SHOPS ONE OF SYDNEY'S PKT SUBURBS
• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• SYDNEY GAY PAL BUT SOME ARE ONLY HOMOSEXUAL UPLE THE VILLAGE
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

SYDNEY HAS ATRALIA’S MOST POPULAR SUBURBS WH GAYS AND LBIANS

Sydney has a thrivg LGBTQ scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. There are a range of LGBTQ areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg LGBTQ bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants. Today, even though you n fd LGBTQ hotspots throughout the cy, Oxford Street remas a major hub for LGBTQI+ activy and hosts Sydney’s famo Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, ually held every March on Oxford Street.

In 2016, jt over 15% of upl Potts Pot were gay men. IT’S timated that gay men and lbians make around five per cent of Atralia’s populatn but some suburbs are so popular wh gay people that ’s likely every fifth person you walk past is far om straight. Data om the Atralian Bure of Statistics (ABS) tailed the untry’s most popular areas for gay men and lbians to live each major rults throw up some surpris cludg that probably the suburb most fiercely associated wh heterosexualy is fact one of the gayt.

In addn, one 10 Atralian gay men live wh a brisk walk of one another. Put those two facts together and you know how many gay upl there are a suburb. ONE IN 10 GAY MEN LIVE NEAR DARLINGHURSTOne of the unexpected fdgs om the rearch was the sheer domance of Sydney the rankgs of most gay-iendly burbs — so lled ‘gaybourhoods’ NSW had jt unr a third of Atralia’s populatn, the state had 41 per cent of Atralia’s male same-sex upl.

GAYS NOT WELE: THE MSAGE OM SHOPS ONE OF SYDNEY'S PKT SUBURBS

“The top ten suburbs for gay upl were all ner Sydney, ” the ABS spokman said. “No ls than one 10 gay men a same-sex relatnship live wh two kilometr of Taylor Square Darlghurst which has long been nsired the epicentre of Atralia’s gay muny.

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

So will e as no surprise that this suburb, on Sydney’s eastern ge, is Atralia’s gayt wh almost 18 per cent of s upl beg two gentlemen on Darlo’s fabuloly stylish heels is Potts Pot, the suburb which clus Kgs Cross that wh s strip clubs and beer barns is, perhaps mistakenly, thought to be a hotbed of ’S RAINBOW RIBBONThe 10 Atralian suburbs wh the hight proportn of gay upl n a ntuo curve huggg Sydney’s CBD. This ‘rabow ribbon’ of gays and lbians shimmi through the terrac of Surry Hills and morn apartments of Alexandria to the terrac of Newtown and further wt to Marrickville and Dulwich Hill.

SYDNEY GAY PAL BUT SOME ARE ONLY HOMOSEXUAL UPLE THE VILLAGE

While gay men ngregate Sydney’s ner east, female same-sex upl look towards the ner wt of Sydney plac such as St Peters and Newtown. Brendan Fzgibbon, a landspe sign nsultant, moved to the ner cy five years ago, “bee Darlghurst needs more gays, ” he told, tongue firmly tra-off for cy centre livg is a smaller apartment then he might get further out, but he said this was easily outweighed by the lol ameni.

”But he was surprised as many as eight out of ten upl Darlghurst were straight “When you walk down the street feels like ’s 80 per cent gay and only 20 per cent straight. ”LESBIANS LIVING FURTHER OUTThat’s not to say Atralia’s other pal ci are bereft of gay people.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

The fewer amount of gay upl outsi of Sydney mak the figur ls accurate but wh data om the ABS and some back of the envelope number cnchg, do seem that Melbourne’s CBD is so chock-a-block wh gay men ’s likely to be the gayt ’burb Victoria.

It’s a pot backed up by the ABS who say gay women are closer to straight upl when to the typ of hom they choose to live than gay men.