Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's
Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe …

Background A growing literature explores spatial patterns of regional and neighborhood
correlates of sexual minority (eg, lesbian, gay, bisexual) concentration. Such patterns have …

Tools from the study of neighborhood effects, place distinction, and regional identity are
employed in an ethnography of four small cities with growing populations of lesbian …

The queer metropolis has developed across three periods of time. During the closet era
(1870—World War II),“scattered gay places” like cabarets and public parks were based in …

Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play …

Sexuality has been present, but obliquely addressed, in human geography for a long time.
Whenever geographers discussed demographic transition models, population dynamics or …

Attitudes toward homosexuality have liberalized considerably, but these positive public
opinions conceal the persistence of prejudice at an interpersonal level. We use interviews …

Drawing on a combination of qualitative methods using data collected from gay
neighborhoods in Chicago and Washington, DC, this article develops the notion of vicarious …

Despite recent media and scholarly attention describing the “disappearance” of traditionally
gay neighborhoods, urban scholars have yet to quantify the segregation of same-sex …

Despite past projects to “decentre” metronormativity—a societal bias toward queer urban
imaginings—in geographical scholarship, attention to suburbia has been limited due, in part …