The Top Five Emergg Gay Neighborhoods of Ameri ⋆ Passport Magaze

Contents:

• MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US
• 100+ GAYBORHOODS, GAY VILLAG, AND GAYTN DTATNS THE USA
• THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
• THE PAST & PRENT OF GAY NEIGHBORHOODS (GAYBORHOODS) THE UNED STAT

MEET THE NEW GAYBORHOODS OF THE US

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

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. 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.

THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI

The new districts don’t look like the untry’s gayborhoods and aren’t always so easy to intify. 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.

THE PAST & PRENT OF GAY NEIGHBORHOODS (GAYBORHOODS) THE UNED STAT

Anrsonville is proof that “gay” isn’t the only thg that mak a neighborhood great for queer rints. 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. LA’s LGBTQ rints began reclaimg their historic turf after three new gay bars opened 2015.

Wh no need to worry about the cy’s notorly bad traffic, ’s surprisg the gay muny didn’t e home to this ‘hood sooner. 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. Here, Lake Merrt is tchg on as an up-and-g gayborhood, but not the ways one might thk.