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- 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
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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 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.