The list shows that gayborhoods have evolved from places anchored by services, bars, and large queer communities - like the Village and Chelsea - to smaller, more diffuse enclaves throughout the boroughs. Localize.city, a website that uses artificial intelligence to provide buyers and renters with critical details for every home, compiled a list of New York’s LGBTQ-friendliest neighborhoods five decades after Stonewall. Next year, the city will celebrate its 50th Pride.
Before the Stonewall riots in the summer of 1969, Greenwich Village had already long been the original “Gayborhood.” The uprising, largely led by transgender women, put the Village, and New York City, on the map as a gay mecca, and spurred the creation of LGBT rights groups nationwide.Ī year after Stonewall, New York City hosted its first Pride Parade.
