Gay villages often contain a number of gay-oriented establishments, such as gay bars and pubs, nightclubs, bathhouses, restaurants, boutiques, and bookstores.Īmong the most famous gay villages are New York City's Greenwich Village, Hell's Kitchen, and Chelsea neighborhoods in Manhattan Fire Island and The Hamptons on Long Island Asbury Park, Lambertville, and Maplewood in New Jersey Boston's South End, Jamaica Plain, and Provincetown, Massachusetts Philadelphia's Gayborhood Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle Midtown Atlanta Chicago's Boystown London's Soho, Birmingham's Gay Village, Brighton's Kemptown, and Manchester's Canal Street, all in England Los Angeles County's West Hollywood as well as Barcelona Province's Sitges, Toronto's Church and Wellesley neighborhood, the Castro of San Francisco Madrid's Chueca Sydney's Newtown and Darlinghurst Berlin's Schöneberg the Gay Street in Rome, Le Marais in Paris Green Point in Cape Town Melville in Johannesburg and Zona Rosa in Mexico City. Metro station in Montreal's Gay Village districtĪ gay village (also known as a gay neighborhood, gay enclave, gayvenue, gay ghetto, gaytto, gay district, gaytown, or gayborhood) is a geographical area with generally recognized boundaries that is inhabited or frequented by many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBT) people.
