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By Jan Diehm. Cities have long been havens for queer individuals. And more importantly, who gets included? Most of the existing data sticks to a narrow view i. This project aims to paint a slightly more complete picture, combining several metrics to create a gayborhood index, but even then it admittedly gay and undercounts areas with non-binary and minority populations.

Still, this is some of the most complete data that we have. More about the limitations in the methodology section. The Pride march route is mapped as a starting point. In many cities, the routes pass through historic gayborhoods. The last piece includes data on where same-sex unmarried partner households and same-sex married joint tax filers live.

The index measures the certainty of an area being a gayborhood. The map for same-sex male couples is nearly identical to the overall gayborhood map. Men dominate the west side, with the highest concentration in Chelsea. When we look at same-sex female coupleswe see a different pattern.

Although there is some overlap, bar couples are overall much less concentrated. Two overarching trends emerge in the index: same-sex male couples are more likely to be concentrated chelsea there is also a visible queer presence parades, marches, and barsand they are overall much more concentrated than same-sex female couples.

Researchers point to two likely explanations for these gender differences. The gender wage gap hits same-sex female households hard—they have less household income than both same-sex male and different-sex households. Same-sex females couples are also more likely to have children than their male counterparts.

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Overall, same-sex female households have lower index scores, suggesting that they are less likely to live in a neighborhood surrounded by other same-sex female households. Males, on the other hand, drive gayborhoods. Although the queer community cuts across race, ethnicity, and class lines, certain gayborhoods can be non-inclusive.

Same-sex male households often followpriced out of previous gayborhoods. The earlier study from UPenn found that Census tracts that started the decade with more gay men experience significantly greater growth in household income and population. Many prominent figures from the city, including Coretta Scott King, have drawn a line between the common struggle for blacks and gays.

Austin routinely appears on lists of the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the nation, but the Texas capital is a relative newcomer as a queer destination. Only 25 people attended the first publicly promoted meeting of Austin homosexuals in Surely there were always enough gay people here to staff one.

In his book There Goes the Gayborhood?