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This is a list of gay villages, urban areas that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people.[1]

Argentina

Name of village City
Barrio Norte Buenos Aires
San Telmo Buenos Aires[2]

Australia

Name of village City
New South Wales
Darlinghurst Sydney
Oxford Street Sydney
Newtown Sydney
Surry Hills Sydney
Marrickville Sydney
Paddington Sydney
Petersham Sydney
Victoria
Prahran Melbourne
South Yarra Melbourne
Collingwood Melbourne
Fitzroy Melbourne
Windsor Melbourne
Daylesford Daylesford
Queensland
Fortitude Valley Brisbane
New Farm Brisbane
Teneriffe Brisbane
Flinders Street West Townsville
Western Australia
Northbridge Perth

Brazil

Name of village City
Farme de Amoedo Street Rio de Janeiro[3]
Frei Caneca Street (Shopping center, many bars, saunas, etc.) São Paulo[4]
Jardins (mainly in the area of Alameda Itu, and Al. Franca, bars and gay-friendly restaurants) São Paulo

Canada

Name of village City
Le Village gai Montreal[5][6][7]
Osborne Village Winnipeg[8]
The Village/Le village (Bank Street between Nepean and James Streets) Ottawa[9][10][11]
Church and Wellesley Toronto[12][13]
Queen Street West/Parkdale "Queer West Village" Toronto[14]
Cabbagetown Toronto[15]
Davie Village Vancouver[16][17][18]
Commercial Drive Vancouver[18]

Colombia

Name of village City
Chapinero Bogotá

France

Name of village City
Le Marais Paris
Beaubourg/Les Halles Paris
Saint Pierre Bordeaux
Le Vieux-Lille Lille

Germany

Name of village City
Motzstraße / Nollendorfplatz Berlin
Hohe Pforte Cologne
Nordend Frankfurt
Lange Reihe, St. Georg, Hamburg Hamburg
Glockenbachviertel Munich

Greece

Name of village City
Gazi Athens
Mykonos Mykonos

Italy

Name of village City
Torre del Lago Viareggio (Tuscany)

Japan

Name of village City
Doyama Osaka
Shinjuku ni-chōme Tokyo
Shinbashi (Mainly San-chome) Tokyo

Mexico

Name of village City
Zona Rosa Mexico City
Zona Romantica Puerto Vallarta

New Zealand

Name of village City
Karangahape Road Auckland
Ponsonby Auckland
Grey Lynn (Lesbian) Auckland

The Philippines

Name of village City
Malate Manila
Timog Quezon City

Portugal

Name of village City
Bairro Alto Lisbon
Chiado Lisbon
Príncipe Real Lisbon[19]

South Africa

Name of village City
Rosebank Johannesburg
Parkhurst Johannesburg
Melville Johannesburg
Green Point Cape Town
Camps Bay Cape Town
De Waterkant Cape Town
Sea Point Cape Town
Clifton Cape Town
Gardens Cape Town

South Korea

Name of village City
Jongro Seoul
Itaewon Seoul

Spain

Name of village City
Chueca Madrid
Lavapiés Madrid
Malasaña Madrid
Gaixample Barcelona
Sitges Sitges (Barcelona)
Barrio del Carmen Valencia
Ruzafa Valencia
Alameda Sevilla
Barrio del Arenal Sevilla
Alfalfa Sevilla
Plaza Nueva Alicante
Plaza de San Andrés Badajoz
Old Town Benidorm
Muelle de la Marzana Bilbao
Elvira Granada
Calle de la Virgen Ibiza
Plaza de Ferray Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Playa del Inglés Maspalomas (Gran Canaria)
Barrio de La Merced Málaga
Barrio de Santa Eulalia Murcia
Gomila Palma de Mallorca
Avenida del Generalísimo Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife)
Old town north east - Entremuros Santiago de Compostela
Salto del Caballo Toledo
La Nogalera Torremolinos (Málaga)
Areal Vigo
Puerta del Carmen Zaragoza

United Kingdom

Name of village City Reference
England
North Shore[dubiousdiscuss][citation needed] Blackpool
Hurst Street Birmingham [20][21]
Kemptown Brighton [22][23][24][25]
Old Market Bristol [26]
Lower Briggate/The Calls Leeds [27]
Stanley Street Liverpool Berkmoes (2001, p. 575)
Old Compton Street/Soho London [28] Masters, Fallon & Maric (2008, p. 332)
Vauxhall London Masters, Fallon & Maric (2008, p. 336)
Earl's Court London Masters, Fallon & Maric (2008, p. 174)
Canal Street Manchester [29][30][31][32]
Pink Triangle Newcastle-upon-Tyne [33][34][35]
Park Lane[dubiousdiscuss][citation needed] Sunderland
Northern Ireland
Cathedral Quarter Belfast [36]
Scotland
Broughton Street Edinburgh [37]
Merchant City Glasgow [38][39][40][41][42]
Wales
Charles Street Cardiff [43]

Sources

  • Berkmoes, Ryan Ver (2001), Britain (4 ed.), Lonely Planet, ISBN 9781864501476
  • Masters, Tom; Fallon, Steve; Maric, Vesna (2008), London: city guide (6 ed.), Lonely Planet, ISBN 9781741047127

United States

Name of village City or County
Arkansas
Eureka Springs Carroll County
California
Tower District Fresno
Guerneville Sonoma County
The Broadway Corridor Long Beach
Laguna Beach Orange County[44]
Adams Point Oakland
Laurel Oakland
Silver Lake Los Angeles
West Hollywood Los Angeles County[45]
Bungalow Heaven Pasadena
Lavender Heights Sacramento
Hillcrest San Diego
The Castro San Francisco
SoMa San Francisco
Polk Gulch San Francisco
The Alameda San José
Arenas Road and Indian Canyon Drive Palm Springs[46]
Abbot Kinney Venice
La Habra, California-Largest Transsexual community by percentage in the USA. [citation needed] Orange County
Colorado
Capitol Hill Denver
Delaware
Rehoboth Beach Sussex County
District of Columbia
Dupont Circle Washington
Logan Circle Washington
Florida
Key West Monroe County
South Beach Miami Beach
Upper East Side Miami
Wilton Manors Broward County
GaYbor Tampa
Seminole Heights Tampa
Grand Central St. Petersburg
Thorton Park Orlando
ViMi District Orlando
Georgia
Ansley Park Atlanta
East Atlanta Village Atlanta
Grant Park Atlanta
Kirkwood Atlanta
Midtown Atlanta
Illinois
Lakeview (Lakeview East, a.k.a. Boystown) Chicago
Edgewater (esp. Andersonville sub-section) Chicago
Indiana
Broad Ripple Village Indianapolis
Chatham Arch Indianapolis
Herron-Morton Place Indianapolis
Iowa
Rainbow District (West Downtown) Davenport[47]
Kentucky
Berea Madison County
The Highlands Louisville
Lexington Fayette County[48]
Louisiana
Faubourg Marigny New Orleans
French Quarter New Orleans
Cotton Street Shreveport
Maine
Ogunquit York County
Hollowell Kennebec County
Maryland
Mount Vernon[citation needed] Baltimore
Bolton Hill[citation needed] Baltimore
Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain Boston
South End Boston
Davis Square Somerville
Northampton Hampshire County
Provincetown Barnstable County
Michigan
Kerrytown Ann Arbor
Ferndale Detroit
Saugatuck
Heritage Hill Grand Rapids
Minnesota
Loring Park Minneapolis
Powderhorn Park Minneapolis
Missouri
Westport Kansas City
Central West End St. Louis
Soulard St. Louis
South Grand, Tower Grove Park St. Louis
Nevada
Fruit Loop Las Vegas[49]
New Jersey
Asbury Park Monmouth County
Collingswood Camden County
Cape May Cape May County
Lambertville Hunterdon County
Maplewood Essex County
Mill Hill (Trenton) Mercer County
Montclair Essex County
Plainfield Union County
New York
Chelsea New York City
Eighth Avenue New York City
Christopher Street/West Village New York City
Greenwich Village New York City
Inwood/Washington Heights New York City
Williamsburg New York City
Park Slope New York City
Cherry Grove Suffolk County
Fire Island Pines Suffolk County
Hudson Columbia County
Ithaca Tompkins County
Allentown Buffalo
Park Avenue Rochester
Hawley-Green Historic District Syracuse
Lark Street Area Albany
North Carolina
Carrboro Orange County
NoDa Arts District Charlotte[50]
Plaza-Midwood Charlotte
South End Charlotte
Historic District Wilmington
Ohio
Highland Square Akron
Northside Cincinnati
Lakewood suburb of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County
Tremont Cleveland
Clintonville Columbus
The Short North Columbus
Olde Towne East Columbus
Victorian Village Columbus
Oklahoma
39th Street Oklahoma City
Brady Arts District Tulsa
Oregon
Oldtown Portland, Oregon
Pennsylvania
Capitol District Harrisburg
East Passyunk Crossing Philadelphia[51][52][53]
Midtown Harrisburg
New Hope Bucks County
Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh
Shadyside Pittsburgh
Manchester Pittsburgh
Washington Square West (a.k.a The Gayborhood) Philadelphia
United States Territory of Puerto Rico
Condado San Juan
South Carolina
Peninsula Charleston
Tennessee
Midtown Memphis
Texas
Bishop Arts District Dallas
Lakewood Dallas
Oak Lawn Dallas
Neartown Houston
Westbury Houston
Uptown Houston Houston
Midtown San Antonio[54]
Travis Heights Austin
Warehouse District Austin
Galveston, Texas Galveston County[55][56]
Utah
The Avenues Salt Lake City
Virginia
Carytown Richmond
Washington
Capitol Hill Seattle
West Virginia
East End Charleston
Wisconsin
Walker's Point Milwaukee

Cities without gay villages

Cities that have an openly gay society but where gay culture is not concentrated in one specific area. Gay bars will often be found near other bars. These urban areas are known for tolerance and high rates of political activism of the GLBT community.

Country City
Denmark Copenhagen
Finland Helsinki
Israel Tel Aviv[57][58]
Portugal Lisbon[59]
Netherlands Amsterdam[60]
Norway Oslo
Sweden Stockholm
Taiwan Taipei[61][62][63]
United States Portland, OR[64]

References

  1. ^ Lauria, Mickey and Lawrence Knopp 1985. “Toward an Analysis of the Role of Gay Communities in the Urban Renaissance” Urban Geography 6(2): 152-169.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ The Gay Street of Rio de Janeiro is the Rua Frame de Amoedo
  4. ^ The Gay Street of São Paulo is the Rua Frei Caneca
  5. ^ Un monde, un village (Société de Développement Commercial du Village)
  6. ^ Aires Libres (Sainte-Catherine Street for pedestrians
  7. ^ MONTREAL GAY VILLAGE _ GO Montreal _ Discover Areas _ Gay Village
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ Mayor offers olive branch to city's gay community
  10. ^ Capital Xtra - What about the gaybourhood?
  11. ^ The Village official Web site
  12. ^ Toronto Pronto - Map of the Village
  13. ^ Tourism Toronto
  14. ^ [3]
  15. ^ http://www.glbtevents.com/travel/toronto.html#things
  16. ^ Vancouver's West End The Gay Village
  17. ^ Travel: Edmonton, Canada
  18. ^ a b vancouver.htm
  19. ^ http://www.feelinglisbon.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=19&lang=en
  20. ^ gaybrum.com
  21. ^ BBC - Birmingham - Your Community
  22. ^ Gay Brighton and Hove, Gay Village, Gay Guide
  23. ^ Brighton venue issues apology over homophobic performer- from Pink News- all the latest gay news from the gay community - Pink News
  24. ^ GAY.COM: Gay Dating, Personals, News, Local Events and Information
  25. ^ Else, David (2007), England (4 ed.), Lonely Planet, p. 219, ISBN 9781741045673
  26. ^ [4] -->]
  27. ^ Leeds Gay Scene
  28. ^ Soho London - Local information for Soho London, Soho Restaurants and Bars
  29. ^ Gay Manchester and Manchester Gay Village
  30. ^ GAY.COM: Gay Dating, Personals, News, Local Events and Information
  31. ^ Picard, David; Robinson, Mike (2006), Festivals, tourism and social change: remaking worlds, Channel View Publications, p. 244, ISBN 9781845410476
  32. ^ Taylor, Ian R.; Evans, Karen; Fraser, Penny (1996), A tale of two cities: global change, local feeling and everyday life in the North of England : a study in Manchester and Sheffield, Routledge, p. 180, ISBN 9780415138284
  33. ^ Newcastle Gay
  34. ^ Scene Map | Newcastle
  35. ^ Chatterton, Paul; Hollands, Robert (2003), Urban nightscapes: youth cultures, pleasure spaces and corporate power, Routledge, p. 167, ISBN 9780415283458
  36. ^ Davenport, Fionn; Beech, Charlotte; Downs, Tom; Hannigan, Des (2006), Ireland (7 ed.), Lonely Planet, p. 580, ISBN 9781740599689
  37. ^ Shelby, Barry (2008), Frommer's Edinburgh & Glasgow (3 ed.), Frommer's, p. 55, ISBN 9780470371848
  38. ^ Murphy, Alan; Ford, Rebecca (2002), Footprint Glasgow Handbook: The Travel Guide, Footprint Travel Guides, p. 19, ISBN 9781903471241, There are plenty of pubs, clubs and cafes to choose from, many of them downtown at the gay village in the Merchant City.
  39. ^ Susan Flockhart (7 March 1999), Glasgow's queer streets, Sunday Herald - Glasgow (UK), What gives Glasgow the edge is the quality of its gay venues and the fact that many of them are owned by one man, an entrepreneur with a mission to develop the gay village concept in Glasgow - who happens to be straight.
  40. ^ King of the city, The Caterer, 26 July 2001, With Delmonicas and now Café Latte and the Polo Lounge next door, King has given Glasgow its first gay village.
  41. ^ Merchant City also hosts the Glasgay! Festival.
  42. ^ merchantcityglasgow.com promotes the Merchant City area as of special gay interest as most of Glasgow's gay venues are located there.
  43. ^ "Get in the pink and party", The Independent, 17 August 1997, ISBN 1155579143
  44. ^ Will the last gay bar in Laguna Beach please turn out the lights? - Los Angeles Times
  45. ^ Which way, WeHo? - Los Angeles Times
  46. ^ - Palm Spring Pride Festival
  47. ^ [5]
  48. ^ [6]
  49. ^ Navigaytion - Gay Vacations - Lesbian Vacations - Gay and lesbian travel community, featuring articles and destination info related to gay & lesbian destinations worldwide. ()
  50. ^ The Gay Ghetto Top 10 for 2008 - GayRealEstateUSA
  51. ^ Colletta, Jen. Philadelphia Gay News, "Out on The Avenue: East Passyunk sees growth through LGBT businesses, residents". Accessed 12 October 2009.
  52. ^ Remo, Jessica. Philadelphia Magazine "Trends: Go South, Young Homo". Accessed 12 October 2009.
  53. ^ Phillygaycalendar.com, 28 April 2008, "Filling Our QOTA in the 'Gayborhood South". Accessed 12 October 2009.
  54. ^ QSanAntonio.com - On the Town
  55. ^ [7]
  56. ^ [8]
  57. ^ Features
  58. ^ Tel Aviv | Bars, Cafés & Nightlife | Gay & Lesbian | AA Destination Guide
  59. ^ O que é que o Chiado tem?
  60. ^ O que é que o Chiado tem?
  61. ^ Gay LangKwaiFong in Taipei
  62. ^ G x Bear Village
  63. ^ Where you are at the Bear Village
  64. ^ Here Comes the Gayborhood!

^ a b Gay Toronto's Queer West Village visitor information | wrong link is now: http://www.queerwest.org/queerwestvillage.php Madeira Island- Caniço Baixo

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