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== [[Real Life]] ==
=== The Americas ===
==== Canada ====
* [[Stargate City|Vancouver]]'s Davie Village.▼
* Toronto has Church Street, so called because it has [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a big church on it]]. St. Michael's Cathedral is probably the origin of the name, though there are also a couple other large ones in the area. Strangely enough, not Queen Street ([[Zero Punctuation|lame joke]]). While the two do intersect, the Gay Village peters out around that area and it gets kinda ghetto.▼
** Although a different part of Queen Street (Queen West) is starting to be called "Queer West".▼
* [[Montreal]]'s Gay Village is centered on the eastern part of the Rue Sainte-Catherine, which is the main artery through Downtown. Montreal is actually really weird in this respect, because not only is the gay village on the main drag near the heart of Downtown, but so are a shit-ton of (straight) strip clubs. ▼
* Ottawa's "Old Ottawa South"<ref>The name refers to where the border used to be before Ottawa was merged with many of its suburbs.</ref>, most notably but not exclusively along the stretch of Bank Street that runs through the area.
==== The United States ====
* As noted in the description, [[San Francisco]]'s Castro District. Famous enough that it often gets conflated with the entire city in popular culture; many people consider all of San Francisco to be America's gayborhood.
** As a bit of [[Truth in Television]] it really is rather upscale these days and you probably can't afford to live there. No matter who you fancy.
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* 10th and Piedmont in the Midtown neighborhood of [[Atlanta]]. Also, Downtown Decatur has a thriving lesbian scene.
** For that matter, Atlanta is often conflated into being the Gayborhood for the entire [[Deep South]].
* [[Freestate Amsterdam|Amsterdam]]'s [[No Pronunciation Guide|Reguliersdwarsstraat]].▼
* Mykonos, Greece. Foreigners might assume it's Lesbos (as in "Lesbian"), but with its conservative Greek Orthodox church-going population, Lesbos is quite the opposite.▼
* [[New York City]]'s Greenwich Village. Made famous by the [[wikipedia:Stonewall riots|Stonewall riots]], which are often viewed as the event that started the gay rights movement.
** Has expanded to Chelsea in the last two decades.
* Prahran in Melbourne.▼
** And Oxford Street in Sydney.▼
* Chicago has Boystown, with Halsted St. as the focal point.
* The area around Nollendorfplatz in Berlin.▼
* The stereotype is that Brighton is the Gayborhood for the whole of the UK - in reality it has one of its own in Kemptown.▼
* Manchester's Canal Street, the setting of the UK ''[[Queer as Folk]]''.▼
* Hebden Bridge is a small village in [[Oop North|Yorkshire]] that gets the same schtick as Brighton for its large LGBT population. ▼
* Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale, FL, has rainbow flags flying above every other storefront. South Beach near Miami and Key West also have Gayborhood elements to them.
** Wilton Manors is really odd, because it's half gay people and half [[Alter Kocker|old Jewish people]].
▲* [[Stargate City|Vancouver]]'s Davie Village.
* The small gay district in Milwaukee, WI is actually referred to as "The Gayborhood."
** As is the area from Broad to 9th, Market to Spruce in Philadelphia. Its "proper" name is "Washington Square West", but most natives will laugh in your face if you use that name.
* Traditionally Dupont Circle in Washington, DC., although gentrification keeps pushing the gayborhood ever eastward.
* Chuecas, in Madrid, Spain.▼
* Shinjuku Nichoume in Tokyo.▼
* Shadyside in [[Pittsburgh]], not Liberty Avenue as depicted on ''Queer As Folk'' mentioned above, which is just an average downtown main street.
▲* Toronto has Church Street, so called because it has [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a big church on it]]. St. Michael's Cathedral is probably the origin of the name, though there are also a couple other large ones in the area. Strangely enough, not Queen Street ([[Zero Punctuation|lame joke]]). While the two do intersect, the Gay Village peters out around that area and it gets kinda ghetto.
▲** Although a different part of Queen Street (Queen West) is starting to be called "Queer West".
* San Diego has Hillcrest. In recent years, gentrification and shifting demographics have also expanded the gay-village boundaries into adjacent neighborhoods, North Park and University Heights in particular.
* The Marais in Paris. Not all of it, but a section.▼
▲* [[Montreal]]'s Gay Village is centered on the eastern part of the Rue Sainte-Catherine, which is the main artery through Downtown. Montreal is actually really weird in this respect, because not only is the gay village on the main drag near the heart of Downtown, but so are a shit-ton of (straight) strip clubs.
* Asbury Park, [[Joisey|New Jersey]] is this for the Jersey Shore. To think that [[Bruce Springsteen|the Boss]] is actually ''from'' there...
* A section of Buffalo, New York, is supportive of the LGBT community, and the gay community itself is rather sizable.
* Tel-Aviv is, to some extent, trying to market itself as such, and it is indeed one of the most gay friendly parts of Israel, if not the most friendly (this, of course, exludes the poorer parts of Tel-Aviv, namely southern Tel-Aviv). ▼
* Dallas, TX has Oaklawn as its main gay neighborhood, with the Bishop Arts district rapidly becoming a secondary one.
* The Glockenbach Viertel (Glockenbach neighborhood) in Munich, Germany used to be this. Nowadays it is still to a certain extent, but due to gentrification and a lot of clubs it has grown beyond the stereotype.▼
* Capitol Hill and Wallingford in [[Seattle]] have the largest concentrations, though gentrification on the former is causing spillover into the Central District.
* The Montrose district of Houston, Texas.
=== Australia ===
▲* Prahran in Melbourne.
=== Europe ===
▲* [[Freestate Amsterdam|Amsterdam]]'s [[No Pronunciation Guide|Reguliersdwarsstraat]].
▲* Mykonos, Greece. Foreigners might assume it's Lesbos (as in "Lesbian"), but with its conservative Greek Orthodox church-going population, Lesbos is quite the opposite.
▲* Chuecas, in Madrid, Spain.
▲* The Marais in Paris. Not all of it, but a section.
==== Britain ====
▲* The stereotype is that Brighton is the Gayborhood for the whole of the UK - in reality it has one of its own in Kemptown.
▲* Manchester's Canal Street, the setting of the UK ''[[Queer as Folk]]''.
▲* Hebden Bridge is a small village in [[Oop North|Yorkshire]] that gets the same schtick as Brighton for its large LGBT population.
==== Germany ====
▲* The area around Nollendorfplatz in Berlin.
▲* The Glockenbach Viertel (Glockenbach neighborhood) in Munich, Germany used to be this. Nowadays it is still to a certain extent, but due to gentrification and a lot of clubs it has grown beyond the stereotype.
=== Elsewhere ===
▲* Shinjuku Nichoume in Tokyo.
▲* Tel-Aviv is, to some extent, trying to market itself as such, and it is indeed one of the most gay friendly parts of Israel, if not the most friendly (this, of course, exludes the poorer parts of Tel-Aviv, namely southern Tel-Aviv).
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