100+ Gayborhoods, Gay Villag, and Gaytn Dtatns the USA - Courtney The Explorer

Contents:

• MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
• THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
• 100+ GAYBORHOODS, GAY VILLAG, AND GAYTN DTATNS THE USA
• MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US

There’s often a rich gay history embedd, too, vg visors to jo the lol legacy of queer culture—and likely tch Pri ftivi and lorful year-round events. 7 acr of the Wt Village, cludg ty Christopher Park, home to Gee Segal’s strikg “Gay Liberatn” sculptur, and, as of June 1, 2022, the first flagpole on feral land to fly a rabow flag.

” The cy’s downtown Gayborhood (y, that’s really what lols ll ) is home to gay-owned bars, rtrants and shops, cludg Philly AIDS Thrift, the rner store that once hoed famo queer bookstore Gvanni’s Room; you’ll see s historic marker out ont.

THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI

Last year brought the 50th anniversary of Philalphia’s first Gay Pri Day, and the cy’s lol queer muny remas one of the untry’s most progrsive and vibrant.

One of Ameri’s first gay neighborhoods took root the Castro the s before Stonewall, and remas a vivid LGBTIQ+ pal of the world.

In this historic gay district, you’ll fd die boutiqu, f and h hangouts like Rose’s, Sitrack and the K Kat Lounge & Supper Club, wh nightly drag shows. If you don’t know Dallas, you might be surprised to learn that ’s home to one of the most gay-proud neighborhoods the untry.

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

It’s the place to see what’s on at the Center on Colfax and where gay-iendly shops and eateri pepper the blocks on and around East Colfax Avenue. There are a few Cap Hill mts for LGBTIQ+ visors, cludg gay-owned Hamburger Mary’s and s zty queens; new--2019, bear-spired Denver Sweet bar; and Blh & Blu, the cy’s lbian-centric ffee and cktail outpost. While the French Quarter has several fun LGBTIQ+ bars and clubs, ’s well worth the walk east, past Frenchmen Street, to reach the Bywater’s classic div, hidn urtyard eateri, vtage shops and the always-worthwhile, gay-owned Country Club (rerve early for smashg weekend drag bnch).

Soclogist Am Ghaziani suggts that LGBTQ urban are foregog the ia of a sgular gayborhood exchange for what he refers to as cultural archipelagos: queer pockets throughout a cy’s landspe that reflect a diverse exprsn of sexuali and liftyl. Halstead Street has been the central ve nng through Chigo’s OG gayborhood, Boystown, for 50-pl years, but Clark Street, the mercial artery the heart of nearby Anrsonville, is emergg as the new ontier for LGBTQ rints. While many gay-centric bs Boystown have recently shuttered and reopened as more straight-iendly tablishments, the queer offergs Anrsonville are expandg.

Cooper Do-nuts, loted on Ma Street DTLA, was once a popular fe sandwiched between two gay bars and equented by the lol queer muny. After an attempt by police to arrt patrons 1959, an army of drag queens, trans women, lbians, and gay men fought back what’s believed to be the first LGBT uprisg the Uned Stat. The Castro San Francis is the crowng jewel of the US’s gayborhoods, but as the cy ntu gentrifyg wh the onslght of the tech dtry, many lament the loss of the neighborhood’s queer inty.

MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

There’s only one gay waterg hole of which to speak — Port Bar, which opened 2016 — and while a brand-new LGBTQ Comuny Center opened 2017, there isn’t much else the vicy directly related to queer life.

Still, Oakland has the third-hight ncentratn of gay and lbian people the untry’s 50 largt ci, send to nearby San Francis and Seattle. Instead, Lake Merrt and the rt of Oakland are fg a new kd of gayborhood, where the liv of LGBTQ dividuals are sewn seamlsly wh the rt of the populatn. Atlanta is the gay pal of the South, and Midtown’s Peachtree Street is s obv epicenter, but gentrifitn is slowly rhapg the neighborhood.

In 2013, a long-nng Midtown gay bar lled The Armory was torn down to make way for high-rise apartments, a ftg snapshot of recent chang.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Buckhead, home to Woof’s, Atlanta’s only gay sports bar, is a popular statn close to queer waterg hol around Ansley Mall (Osr’s Bar, Mixx, and Felix’s Atlanta are jt a few worthy of note).

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

T Lizzy’s Tex-Mex jot is popular wh a gay crowd, and bars like The T and Mary’s are quirky, low-key alternativ to the bars found on Peachtree. Lambda Risg closed 2010, and the past , ’s bee qutnable whether DuPont Circle is worth mentng as a gay center the cy anymore. Sure, the area is home to JR’s and a handful of other popular gay bars, but as rents have bee too expensive for all but the wealthy, many queer rints are head eastward and takg the gay tablishments wh them.

Both gay tablishments mix wh a ser cuise scene (check out Le Diplomate for lic French lici), world-class performance venu (see what’s playg at Stud Theater), and classic Victorian archecture that rivals what you’ll fd the old ‘hood. The Dirty Goose, a classy martis-and-cktails tablishment wh a rooftop terrace, is the perfect scene for DC’s ntgency of JCrew-wearg gays. Both Shaw and Logan Circle follow the path of other morn gayborhoods, where the foc is on tegratg wh a diverse muny stead of isolatg to form their own.

Hell’s Kchen is the island’s newt eratn of the gayborhood, and while ’s still the queen of Manhattan’s scene, there’s a new lole emergg to share the limelight. The recently opened 3 Dollar Bill, a queer event and performance space, attracts an eclectic crowd wh parti thrown by people like nightlife legend Sanne Bartsch, pop-mic prce Ty Sunrland, and the hedonistic homos behd Bt. If you s for long enough at a park Brooklyn Heights, you’re bound to see a flurry of gay dads phg strollers toward the wateront.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

It was home to a handful of gay bars like The Eagle and The Spike, as well as one of the first known gay dance clubs, Seventeenth Saloon, where an eclectic range of gay men mgled.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Rent was nsirably cheaper than the popular, next-door neighborhood of the Wt Village, and gay-owned shops eventually opened along Eighth Avenue. Through the s, gay bars ntued to open, like Splash, Barracuda, and G Lounge, and morn, gay-owned boutiqu like Mal + Goetz started replacg ubiquo sex shops. No other neighborhood was more gay-approved, though Chelsea’s strength beme s weakns: the neighborhood was gettg crowd, mercialized, and too expensive for longtime rints.

When nobody thought Chelsea uld be out-gayed, gay men and women started headg north where they sentially found Hell’s Kchen at the turn of the 21st century. Hell’s Kchen was rough around the edg, but paratively cheaper and already settled by a small muny of gay artists, dancers, and performers nsirg s close proximy to the Theater District.

Two relatively unknown gay bars were slgg cktails and blastg show tun and, soon enough, the unr-the-radar Hell’s Kchen somewhat rivaled Chelsea, boastg more than a dozen gay bar opengs wh the past 15 years, and beg home to a thrivg LGBT muny. Hell’s Kchen beme the new Chelsea, though too fell victim to gay gentrifitn where rents often doubled, rporatns set up shop, and many rints uld no longer afford .