Is there a "gay" section in your town, too?

[Floogeldy]

There is a portion of a street in my town that is almost totally gay oriented; a hotel, clubs, cafes, shops, etc. . . . There may be possibly be other areas, too.

I don't travel much to other cities. Is this common? It's cool.

B-)

[tuvor]

1. yvr girl, is there one in Vancouver?

[Allenberg]

2. Bah...Delete.

[Allenberg]

3. I've only been in Pittsburgh for a couple weeks for the first time

in six years...I really don't know :(

[Floogeldy]

5. Are you calling me an asshole?

I'm not sure what to think.

[dsc]

7. Do you have your pics turned off

He has pics of Santorum around the word asshole. That is who he is calling an asshole.

[Allenberg]

10. Huh?

You mean the ad for Casey?

[dsc]

6. Go to the Oakland area

which is around Pitt.

[dsc]

4. In midsize and large cities yes

Unless a city is like San Francisco or New York, and even they have LGBT areas they just also have LGBT presence in other places, a city often has a gay oriented area. In Chicago its boystown. In Cleveland it is Lakewood and the northwest side of Cleveland. In Columbus it is Germantown. In Pittsburg it is Oakland. In the triangle it is the area around Duke Univeristy.

[Floogeldy]

12. Thank you

I more or less reached the conclusion that this was probably not particular to my city. And why not?

B-)

[shawn703]

8. I believe in DC

Dupont Circle is the most gay friendly area.

[northzax]

44. traditionally, yes

but now you can add scott Circle, Adams Morgan and Logan Circle

[arwalden]

9. I Think We're The ONLY Homos In Our City.

So I guess the gay-section would be our very own street.

[trof]

40. YOU'RE GAY?!

jeez
I had no idea.

[arwalden]

45. LOL!!

I thought you knew. Hmmm. I guess I need a bigger gay duck in my signature line. :hi:

[newsguyatl]

11. sometimes i wonder

if atlanta's an exclusively gay town. :D

[dsc]

15. I am thinking of going to Atlanta's pride

but have no idea where Atlanta's gay area is. Can you help me out on that?

[unsavedtrash]

18. midtown

[Robb]

13. Not so much

...although we have a lot of cowboys. Statistics, y'know. :evilgrin:

[swag]

14. It's common around the world.

Many successful businesses erupt to pick off the overflow.

Relax and enjoy. Happens with the gun clubs too.

[driver8]

16. Yeah...its called "West Hollywood"... n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

38. I hear that.

I live there.

When someone ask a question, you can here this loud collective "yessssssss", sounds like steam escaping.

[maveric]

17. Hillcrest, Uptown San Diego.

A very well kept, older neighborhood. And almost totally BLUE!

[Placebo]

19. Boystown here in Chicago.

gay, Gay, GAY!!!

[nickgutierrez]

21. Oh man, you ain't kidding...

I went there once a couple of years ago, with my then-roomate and a gay friend. I had only been in Chicago for maybe a few months at the most, and before then I hadn't really experienced anything outside of the south Florida swamps. Boystown was, at the time, the single most bizzare thing that I had ever seen. Huge, phallic, rainbow-colored sculptures, my crazy-ass roomate, the shops (oh god, the shops - the only time I've ever heard a gay man refer to another gay man by "girl")... absolutely priceless. :D

(My then-roomate and I are both hetero... but does it really matter?)

[Placebo]

25. haha...

it is pretty insane!

and those massive rainbow/phallic/"street sign" things are just too much :D

[terrya]

26. Not as gay as it used to be.

There's been a migration away from Boystown. Lakeview is more hetero lately.

[AngryAmish]

32. Andersonville

[terrya]

36. Edgewater has a pretty sizable gay presence, also.

[Placebo]

52. Ya know what I hate?

Gay-acting straight guys.

It seems to be a trend lately for straight guys to dress all spiffy and be...well...stereotypically gay looking & sounding! Tight clothes and all...

As if it wasn't hard enough already to spot our people, now it's double tough.

[unsavedtrash]

20. Philly has the gayborhood but I'm back in Alabama now so no.

[Misunderestimator]

30. I remember gay Philly well.... Just below Broad Street...

Went to my first gay bar in Philly.

[Patiod]

48. Gay bars in the Philly gayborhood hosted Dean Meetups

in early days when no one else would.

Great settings for them, because the meeting would be at 7:00 or 7:30, and not a patron in site yet so we didn't interfere with business, but they were big enough to accomodate us, and could serve beer.

Later meetings moved to "straight" bars to accomodate those who were "squeamish" about going to a gay bar at any time, and it was a headache, because we had to compete with the loud, smokey "happy hour" crowds. God I'd like to smack people upside the head sometimes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Hi there, Floogeldy!

I don't believe that there is a section in my little town, but Long Beach, to the south, has a large gay neighborhood...and right now I am remembering the name: Pacific Shores...Nice, quiet place, well kept up homes. I have no idea if Long Beach has shopping areas that are focussed on the gay population.

And driver8 correctly pointed out that West Hollywood has a large gay population as well...

:pals:

[Misunderestimator]

31. Long Beach has a large gay population and many bars and restaurants

[Sabriel]

23. Nope, not in Oshkosh, b'gosh

To be honest, it wouldn't be safe.

[sundog]

24. yes, my place

:P

[terrya]

27. Hey, hot stuff!

:-)

[tjwmason]

28. You're gay?

Golly what a shock - I would never have imagined such a thing. :wow:

[arwalden]

50. I Knew It All Along.

:-)

[Bridget Burke]

29. Houston has the Montrose area....

Many bars & gay-oriented businesses. The Pride Parade takes place there--at night, to avoid Houston's daytime heat.

But not everyone in the Montrose is gay. And not everyone in other neighborhoods is straight, by any means.

[GOPisEvil]

33. The Montrose area is a great part of Houston.

I'm straight as an arrow, and I'd love to live in that part of Houston. That is, if I were forced to move to Houston. ;)

[Misunderestimator]

37. I lived there for a year..... about 20 years ago...

was wonderful then too.... but damn hot!

[Bridget Burke]

43. I lived there years ago.

In "the old days" Hippies could rent fine old homes for a song. Some of the homes are still fine. Others have been torn down for unbeautiful development. But it's still a place for free spirits. Home of the Menil collection & close to the rest of the museums.

The Greater Heights area is also pretty fine.

[Trigger Hippie]

34. Hi everyone!!

I'm just moved to the Boston area and am wondering if any of you know if there's a primarily gay Boston district. Thanks for the help .... :hi:

[Debbi801]

35. Sorta, I think...

But Baltimore also has "The Block" so we're an equal opportunity place. LOL

Debbi

[chickenscratching]

39. Minneapolis definitely-the whole city

[bertha katzenengel]

41. In DC, where I work, yes: Dupont Circle. Back home, a portion

of Long Beach, where I lived for the last ten years before moving here, is dubbed the "gay ghetto."

Yeah, it's cool. :hi:

[nickinSTL]

42. Central West End

In St. Louis.

There are a couple other areas known as gay/gay-friendly, but the CWE is the main 'gay' area.

[AllegroRondo]

49. And Soulard

[nickinSTL]

51. right

Soulard is one of the 'other' areas I was referring to :D

[Bluzmann57]

46. Here in Davenport, IA there is

There are three bars and a restaurant which cater to homosexuals, primarily. They are on Second Street, right at the foot of the Centennial Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River into Illinois. The restaurant has very good food. Yes, I have eaten there before and yes I am straight. The thing about the "Rainbow District", as it is known is that the owners of the establishments have worked hard to fix up the area where at one time prostitution and drug dealing were prevalent. The city leaders do not bother the area, and in fact, a few have said that it is much appreciated. Believe me, the area was really bad for a while. Now it sweems to be busy a lot of the time and there are not many police calls down there, according to the police department.

[eyesroll]

47. It depends.

In Milwaukee -- Brady Street has the most gay-friendly non-entertainment businesses, I'd say, but Walker's Point (a historically Mexican neighborhood) has by far the greatest concentration of gay bars.

[RedCloud]

53. Perhaps. I overheard, "Gay section, my ass!"

So, I think there is.

[NMMNG]

54. No gay section

There's no gay anything in my town.

However there are several straight porno shops. So much for gays being the pervs of society, eh?