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Old 02-13-2015, 10:41 PM
 
Location: Philly, PA
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You can live anywhere in Philly if you gay....NO ONE CARES....Some still might get upset or whatever they choose for their own dum reasons but ... you are who you are...LIVE LIFE. Don't just be confined to a neighborhood because its "Gayborhood" choose to live because you want to be there. I'll put it like this , i was in North Philly one summer day and this was a gritty part and live part of north philly...i saw like three transexuals standing on the corner either selling drugs, whatever minding their business everyone else in the neighborhood was out...no one paid it attention...sorry if i may have went off topic.
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Old 02-14-2015, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Stay classy, BTY.
So, you have a problem with straight guys who appear to be gay? Because I certainly don't, people can carry themselves however they like as far as I'm concerned.
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Old 02-14-2015, 02:30 PM
 
Location: New York City
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The interesting thing about the Gayborhood and most other gay neighborhoods in America is that they aren't home to most of the city's gay population anymore. They have become gentrified, in-demand neighborhoods where the only gay people who still permanently reside in them are either a handful of wealthy younger guys or older ones who are more established. The Gayborhood is still very gay, especially on Friday and Saturday nights where people from all over the city and burbs flock to the bars and clubs, but you'll rarely find anyone under 30 who actually lives in that neighborhood anymore at a place like Woody's or U-Bar.
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Old 02-14-2015, 03:11 PM
 
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Old 02-14-2015, 09:47 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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The interesting thing about the Gayborhood and most other gay neighborhoods in America is that they aren't home to most of the city's gay population anymore. They have become gentrified, in-demand neighborhoods where the only gay people who still permanently reside in them are either a handful of wealthy younger guys or older ones who are more established. The Gayborhood is still very gay, especially on Friday and Saturday nights where people from all over the city and burbs flock to the bars and clubs, but you'll rarely find anyone under 30 who actually lives in that neighborhood anymore at a place like Woody's or U-Bar.
It's an old story ...

Gay people seem to have a knack for "discovering" certain towns or neighborhoods that appeal to them often because of the historical charm and/or architecture that is often neglected and very cheap. They move in and start improving the area because gay folks seem to value cleanliness and beauty and are noted for restoring old properties. I don't want to make a broad sweeping generalization, but I've seen it happen over and over again. There are plenty of gay/lesbian slobs out there too, however. Places like Asbury Park and Plainfield in New Jersey for example. These places were once dumps. Then the place becomes "gentrified" and young straight hipsters or straight couples with money move in. Before you know it the gays themselves can no longer afford that neighborhood and they move on. Even places like Provincetown (a mostly Portguese-American fishing village) and New Hope (a working class mill town) were towns that owe their cachet to gay people (often "the artistic types").
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Old 02-15-2015, 12:43 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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How about Northern Liberties, Fishtown, or "Olde Kensington"? Are there any places in these hipster-ish neighborhoods where gay folks tend to gravitate?
Wherever I happen to be in those neighborhoods when I'm in them.

Which reminds me: Wanna go in with me on bringing Germantown its first gay bar?

Seriously, though, I think that the trend these days is for us to blend in with the general environment outside the "gayborhoods"; the kids seem to prefer their socializing that way, and while it may make picking up guys at a bar harder, I think this is salutary and the wave of the future.
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Old 02-15-2015, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Wherever I happen to be in those neighborhoods when I'm in them.

Which reminds me: Wanna go in with me on bringing Germantown its first gay bar?

Seriously, though, I think that the trend these days is for us to blend in with the general environment outside the "gayborhoods"; the kids seem to prefer their socializing that way, and while it may make picking up guys at a bar harder, I think this is salutary and the wave of the future.
I'd be interested in that.
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Old 09-19-2015, 06:36 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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Which reminds me: Wanna go in with me on bringing Germantown its first gay bar?
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I'd be interested in that.
Me too. Name a day, a time and a place!!!
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Old 09-21-2015, 01:13 PM
 
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CP, back in the day, well my day(70s/80s) there were gay establishments, beyond the Gayborhood, in Old City and near 4th and South. There was one lesbian bar in Fishtown before all the recent gentrification. There was at least one bar on Market St, in Millburne, just west of 63rd St.

One of the MAJOR things that pretty much stalled things, or ended their existence, was AIDS. Being an old head/elder I remember how awful that was during the 80s. I lost a fair number of friends and acquantances because of it including a principal dancer of the PA Ballet.

Today gay "ghettos" are dying. The Castro in SF and West Hollywood in LA are nothing like they used to be.

I had a conversation with a NYC friend recently who moaned about all the straight people in Chelsea. Gay acceptance changed everything. And gay Millenials, unlike gay Boomers, don't need the "protection" of gay neighborhoods nowadays.
Not gay myself, but this is what I hear from my friends that are. Just about everywhere young millenials tend to gather is going to be gay friendly, and acceptance is pretty high. There's no real need for gay specific neighborhoods or bars, they just go wherever they like and have a great time.

There's a roving LGBT dance party (Stimulus? I think) that sets up shop randomly in different clubs/bars depending on what month it is.
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Old 09-21-2015, 08:03 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Not gay myself, but this is what I hear from my friends that are. Just about everywhere young millenials tend to gather is going to be gay friendly, and acceptance is pretty high. There's no real need for gay specific neighborhoods or bars, they just go wherever they like and have a great time.

There's a roving LGBT dance party (Stimulus? I think) that sets up shop randomly in different clubs/bars depending on what month it is.
Well I certainly agree with the acceptance factor, especially in the Northeast, However, I think its fine for cities to have a gayborhood. The gayborhood in many cities represents almost a culture with history and community, much like you would see in Chinatown, Little Italy etc.

Plenty of straight people frequent the gayborhood as they are certainly welcome to, but I personally like having the identity of a gayborhood in a city. It adds more community, culture and acceptance. Also gay neighborhoods are always the most lively and hip parts of a city.
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