Gay Guys Make the Best Neighborhoods (Gayborhoods!)

What's the poll you said you wanted? If you tell me the options to put, I can make it for you.

 

Its like a sense of belonging, I guess, that make the place flurish.
But I guess, that over time it won't work anywhere because any community will be "racist" inside itself and things will start to get ugly ?

But ye I would love to live in a place like that, holding hands in the street is on my TODO list ^^

But I also don't know if its the best idea because homophobes can do bad things to that neighberhood :/

 

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That's definitely been the case here in Baltimore. I've lived in or on the fringes of the 'Gayborhood' since I arrived here some 16 years back. Mount Vernon was the 'original' gay neighborhood, and still is; lots of businesses, and still where the gay bars are, the LGBT center, and such, and a beautifully historic area. To the north, past the symphony hall and opera, you have Bolton Hill, a very pretty though more residential neighborhood, again, very much gay-gentrified, now more diverse, with amazing well preserved brownstones. The art college, MICA, is also there.

Now things are pushing to the fringes of an adjoining area called 'Station North', around Penn Station, which I like. A bit more crumbly, but a nice mixture of the arts scene and gay friendly. What I like is being able to walk to places to see movies, bands, go to coffee shops, taverns, art openings...it may not be as bustling as NYC, but I've come to like the city's quirky charm.

After all, we did give the world John Waters and Divine, and that says something about Charm City, as it's called.

So I'd agree, and have seen the process of gays improving neighborhoods at work, spreading into areas that were once abandoned, and bringing about new life. Baltimore can be a rough town, and the LGBT community has been among the pioneering forces making it a safer place to live. (DC has has similar patterns, DuPont Circle having been the gay epicenter, but now priced way, way beyond comprehension)

 

I would so live in a gayboorhood and we could all have rainbows for stop signs at would be fun and if we see strait people well tell them are neighborhood is a gayboorhood and we heterophobes lmao yes yes yes yes!!! :roflmao:

 

I live in St. Louis just on the edge of the main gayborhood (central west end along manchester), unfortunately it's starting to get expensive. The brightside of living close to the bars and such is starting to grow on me, but unfortunately the rent is starting to cut down more seriously on how much of it I can enjoy. The weird part is that while the property values have gone up, a lot of the area is still crappy, of course, St. Louis being what it is, everywhere in the city (and county) not facing an important street is crappy.

 

LOVE IT!!! ride: :newcolor:

 

My nearest neighbor is a half mile away, so...No idea what to vote lol.

 

I wouldn't want to live in one, but I understand they have their benefits. Unfortunately, because of the increased costs (I'm pretty sure most gay areas are gentrified or originally expensive) the people who need it most (LGBT people who've been kicked out of home or just don't have much money) aren't able to live in them.

 

I'm so livin there

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whats the difference between 2 and 3 ? xD
I voted 3 because I answer because I read everything. no time, no time, chop chop chop!

 

The Castro District is a perfect example of this in CA. Castro was a deteriorating area in northern CA and gay guys (mostly) came in and gussied it up!

I'd love to move to a Gayborhood :newcolor:

 

I don't think I could ever move into a "gayborhood." Of course, if my only options were to live in a gayborhood or live in a hostile environment, I'd choose the former. There's just something about rainbows everywhere that doesn't appeal to me. Also, most gayborhoods tend to be in urban areas and I don't like congestion.

 

We have a gay district here, but it's an integral part of the larger downtown area, rather than a neigbourhood in its own right. It's mostly commercial too as opposed to residential, so not many people live there - mostly gay bars and stores selling sex toys and bondage. There are areas that have gentrified a lot over the past 20 years, but there isn't an obvious gay presence - they are probably there, but they're not shouting about it. They're just your typical 'poor people out, rich people in' neighbourhoods that are too expensive with a hint of pretension. Lots of hipsters and urban young professionals (who may or may not be gay).

As for myself - I have no desire to live in a 'gayborhood' - I don't define myself by my sexuality, and I don't think congregating gay people into specific areas is even helpful to our cause - no more than different races or immigrant groups forming their own enclaves and never interacting with anyone else.

 

None of the above 4 choices apply.

I live in a predominately straight neighborhood and just like a lot of features about it: the way it looks and feels, the fact that I'm used to it, access to transit (various types), etc. Clearly, there are gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other sexual minorities in the neighborhood, though most likely in some of the bigger apartment complexes, even though I'm sure there are some married men and women here and there who are not fully straight . I once recall seeing a bumper sticker that said "We are everywhere," but this bumper sticker is dated. On the residential street on which I grew up, there was a single guy who would have made the Top 3 for best kept home and landscaping. At the time, I only saw that this guy was really handsome and not married, but didn't think much of it. Now, I can sort of do the math, thought it's really not relevant. A gayborhood would be sensory overload for some, including some of our members. I like trees, winding streets, less density, and most gayborhoods tend to be in the urban core. In most big cities, the suburbs are far from hostile or negative any more. Also, if going to a restaurant or shop in a gayborhood, the vibe that a lot of people are in cruise mode is also switched on ... not for everyone, but for a good number of people. I didn't even care for that 24/7 aspect when I was in my 20s.