Find A Gay Neighborhood

Hey, Alex, maybe it just looks for nude beaches (like in La Jolla) and assumes that they're gay.

Curses.
I was going to try it for here, but it's USA only.

Ah well.

I ran it for Dallas... it seemed to do a pretty good job. At least it didn't choose any areas that would be patently anti-gay (we have a few of those).
The description at the top of the page seemed to describe what it was looking for: Gay-friendly neighborhoods have a unique combination of educated people living artsy/funky lifestyles.
The areas that it chose generally fit the artsy / educated definition. Whether or not that works as a definition for gay friendly, I don't know...

There are actually gay neighborhoods????? WoW.

They seem to be using a whole bunch of proxies for "gayness" but seem to be missing the most useful bit of public information--Census data. The US Census allowed same sex couples to identify themselves as householder and unmarried partner in 2000.

I have worked with Census data and know which areas in two states have the highest percentages of households with same sex couples. NeighborhoodScout failed to find them but instead found areas that were well educated and a little wealthy. In other words I could do a better job than this thing.

Same sex couples is not quite the same thing as percentage of the population that is gay (because not everyone has spouse/SO) but it is a very good proxy for level of "gayness". For example, college towns often have a lot of gay people who are not necessarily in long-term relationships.

They pretty much pick Manhattan as being entirely gay. And their top choices lie in Midtown, not Chelsea or the Village, so I think they are using an areas cost of living as much more of a barometer than anything else.

Blazingly accurate?? Interesting choice of adjectives.... Perhaps they should've said "Flamingly" accurate? :cheese:

To correct myself, I look at the site more carefully and they do use Census data but apparently do not see that it should be weighted more highly (as the areas I checked were close to Census but not quite right).

I tried Detroit, and it seemed to just pick the most expensive neighborhoods, and ignored Ferndale, the neighborhood with the largest gay population.

Nope. I tried it out for Fresno, CA, where I live. At first the site was giving me results for Raleigh, NC (?!?!) When I finally got it to give me results for the right city, it completely ignored the Tower District, which is definitely the closest thing Fresno has to a "gay-friendly neighborhood".

Well, I live in 80-89% gay. That's a pretty high gay. My city has a very strong gay potential... not TOO much gay around, though, so it must be a buyer's market for gay.

Correcting myself again!

This search engine has nothing to do with percentage gay and has everything to do with education data from the Census and the site's "artsy, funky" criteria. The "gay" frontpage is just a front end for a "educated/artsy" specific search in their real estate location engine that DOES NOT USE census data on % of same sex couples at all.

Yes Stephen, there are predominately gay neighborhoods... and not too far from where you live either.

...I tried it for my area (I'm really not sure what areas near me have a high gay population), but it gave me a super expensive area of town...water front houses. Near man-made Davis Island.

HAH!
I don't know if any of you are familiar with Mountain Home Idaho? I put that tiny little town in and they gave me "neighborhoods" that are actually vast swatches of empty desert between Mtn Home and Boise...LOL! Very, very gay friendly, those antelope!

La Jolla as the most gay-friendly area of San Diego? I guess if it is going off the artsyness it would make sense, but by finding the most cultured artsy area of each city they are no doubt going to pick the most expensive areas, as evidenced by the machine chosing La Jolla as gay-friendly. That's pretty stereotyped though. Most of my gay friends aren't into real artsy cultured stuff, they just want to have fun. They would much rather be hanging out in the gay bars in hillcrest.

As to Tucson, it chooses my neighborhood as #1 and all the neighborhoods around it as the next 4. Nice to know I live in a gay-friendly community, but really, isn't that obvious? All the areas it chose are surrounding the University. I was actually surprised it didn't choose the more expensive area of Tucson just due to the areas it's been choosing for other cities, but then again, it's all republicans up there...

tried it for arizona. it picked 5 areas right around arizona state university. i doubt the kids there would be the friendliest to gays

Gee said:

"I don't know if any of you are familiar with Mountain Home Idaho? I put that tiny little town in and they gave me "neighborhoods" that are actually vast swatches of empty desert between Mtn Home and Boise...LOL! Very, very gay friendly, those antelope!"

Yes, I am familiar with Mountain Home. In fact, elsewhere on this website there is a photo of me standing in the abandoned drive-in theater on the way into town, wearing a black suit and a Mexican wrestling mask. Seriously.

As for the thirty-five miles of desert between Mountain Home and Boise being "gay-friendly," well, some of those dunes are FABULOUS!

That gas station/Burger King just off I-84? Quite the scene, if you get my meaning. More like a Burger QUEEN! 😊

Cranky Media Guy:
I guess you know JUST what I mean.
Ever been to the Emerald? Remember Papa's? What about Partner's? What about Veteran's Park men's room?

I do remember that pic...but the dunes are on the ANOTHER side of Mountain Home...not between there and Boise. Prove youself...name me a Dave...

It's only possible to communicate outside the host template for two more days... then no words will suffice. Preparation would be wise.

Gee said:

"I guess you know JUST what I mean.
Ever been to the Emerald? Remember Papa's? What about Partner's? What about Veteran's Park men's room?

"I do remember that pic...but the dunes are on the ANOTHER side of Mountain Home...not between there and Boise. Prove youself...name me a Dave..."

Actually, I DON'T know what you mean. I just lived in Boise for a while when I was working at a radio station there (J105). I drove to Mountain Home a lot when I'd get bored. That stretch of I-84 between Boise and Mountain Home always fascinated me.

well crap in the ltitle town i grew up in my neighborhood is ranked best for gays and i didnt know a single one that lived there lol

I tried it for Allentown, PA (homes 200K-300K) and it matched my neighborhood (and all those surrounding the Malls) as being 80%-89% match, which makes sense given that my neighbors seem friendly enough 😊, and most of the other areas it matched are more-or-less "gay friendly" (or at least have lots of gays living in them). It did mark one area that is 100% orthodox Jewish as part of the 80%-89% match, and the roadmaps it uses are at least 10 years out of date, so I'm not surprised to hear that others have found it to be less than stellar as well.

I re-ran it to consider all homes, not just a price range, and the results were slightly better. The Lehigh University campus was picked as a 92% match, which is great except for the fact that more than 90% (by area) of what is highlighted is owned by the University and only students can live there.

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I tried to check for my city, "Wilton Manors, FL" and it is not even listed. Wilton Manors was refered to in the NY Times as "The gay Mecca". Anybody in this town who had a problem with gays moved away a long time ago.

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