For example, gays and lesbians in San Francisco congregate in the gay and lesbian-oriented Castro neighborhood, while gays and lesbians in Seattle concentrate in the city's older bohemian stomping grounds of Capitol Hill and those of Montreal have concentrated in a working-class neighbourhood referred to administratively as " Centre-Sud ", but largely known as " Le Village ".

The neighbourhood of Le Marais in Paris has experienced a growing gay presence since the 1980s, as evidenced by the existence of a large gay community and of many gay cafés, nightclubs, cabarets and shops, such as the largest Gay Club in Europe called Le Depot.

The neighbourhood has experienced a growing gay presence since the 1980s, as evidenced by the existence of many gay cafés, nightclubs, cabarets and shops.

* Le Marais: The Indifferent Ghetto Article about Le Marais as the gay neighbourhood of Paris

The high rents mean that the majority of gay youth cannot afford to live in the neighbourhood.

The publication's offices are located in the Davie Village neighbourhood, Vancouver's gay village.

In 2011, the city officially unveiled signs identifying the neighbourhood as Ottawa's gay village, at the intersections of Somerset, James and Nepean Streets with Bank Street.

It serves the neighbourhood of Le Marais, known for its Jewish and gay communities.

They successfully changed popular hooker hang-out Jarvis St. to " Stan Khoe Ave .", the notoriously gay neighbourhood Church Street to " Lou Sass Blvd.

David, which is now part of Toronto Centre — Rosedale, included the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, the largest gay village in Ontario.

The riding contains notable areas such as Rosedale ( one of Canada's wealthiest enclaves ), Regent Park ( Canada's first and largest social housing development ), St. Jamestown ( a largely immigrant area and the most densely populated neighbourhood in Canada ), Cabbagetown, Church and Wellesley ( Canada's largest gay community ), the eastern portion of the University of Toronto and part of the city's financial district ( the northern portion of Bay Street ).

Part of this work included a large new glassed-in entrance building by Béïque, Thuot, and Legault ; a unique part of its design are rainbow-coloured masts over the door, an homage to Montreal's large gay and lesbian neighbourhood, the Village ( Village gai ), which the station serves.

In 2005, the Church and Wellesley business association erected a statue of Wood in the neighbourhood, honouring him as a forefather of Toronto's modern gay community.

David, which includes Toronto's Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, Canada's largest gay village.

Tony walks all the way from Manhattan to his old neighbourhood in Brooklyn in the middle of the night, he also walks past his former Saturday night hangout, The 2001 Odyssey Discothèque, which is now a gay nightclub.

There has been some debate as to whether Rae can authentically claim to represent the gay community after several redistributions have changed the make-up of the ward Rae represents to include wealthier neighbourhoods at the same time as the gay and lesbian community has made itself more at home across the city, leaving it less geographically anchored to the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood.

David, which includes the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, home to Canada's largest gay and lesbian community.

Formerly a poor working-class neighbourhood, part of the Centre-Sud area of the city, the area was occupied by the gay and lesbian community after the huge expulsion of many gay businesses from an area closer to Saint Lawrence Boulevard ( or " The Main " as the locals call it ).

The Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center opened its doors on March 1, 1981 in a two-room storefront on Keyes St. in south downtown San Jose, a year after Santa Clara County residents voted to repeal ordinances extending housing and employment protections to lesbians and gay men.

And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage And Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems, `` Thoughts In Loneliness '', filled with brooding, melancholy, and sombre longing ''.

The sand is fine and pleasant, the cabanas are clean, and the parasols, green, raspberry, and butter yellow, are very gay.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

It overlooks the other fact that it is described as `` Nec minus salutaris quam festivus '', `` no less salutary than gay ''.

It also overlooks the fact that in a rational lexicon, and quite clearly in More's lexicon, the opposite of serious is not gay but frivolous, and the opposite of gay is not serious but solemn.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

Although a straight drum shade would be adequate and sufficiently neutral that the puppets could be changed without disharmony, it is far more fun to create shades in the gay spirit of a child's playtime.

Mary is cheery and gay when her husband comes home in the evenings, and the children's bed-time is frequently preceeded by a session of happy, family rough-housing.

Andy Warhol is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

I ’ m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.

Obviously as a fictional character he ’ s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

Today, it is a favorite of gay audiences and audiences in general have considered it to be a comedy thanks to frequent midnight movie showings.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

Singin ' in the Rain is another film adopted by American gay culture which used to regularly be shown during the 1980s and early 1990s for extended runs.

In 1999, Russell T Davies's Queer as Folk, a popular TV series shown on Channel 4 ( UK ) debuted and focused primarily on the lives of young gay men ; in particular on a 15-year-old going through the processes of revealing his sexuality to those around him.

Some of these stressors are also experienced by heterosexual adolescents, but they have been shown to be more prevalent among gay adolescents.

He has also been shown to have fairly moderate views on issues like gay rights and other religions ( except perhaps Buddhism since ).

Gelfer ’ s recent research has shown that masculine spirituality tends to perpetuate a patriarchal spirituality, and that gay spirituality and queer theory can be a useful way to think about masculinities for all men, gay or straight.

In April 2007 Watkins starred as the ' hidden ' celebrity in an episode of the CBBC show Hider in the House On 11 March 2008 Watkins presented a documentary about growing up gay in Wales, shown on BBC Wales .< ref >

" I will never permit a film of mine to be shown in a gay film festival.

Phallometry has been shown to distinguish gay men from straight men.

" In one treatment method, gay volunteers had electrodes attached to their genitals and were then shown homosexual pornography.

Meena and Beena, the Minx Twins-Two teenage chav girls who complain about unwanted male attention and shout out rude comments at the men who walk past them, with the camera then pulling back to reveal why the men are there ( e. g. in one sketch the girls are shown to have gone to a gay bar, in another they are standing outside a men's public toilet.

The prototypical Hollywood vampire, Dracula, was shown to be openly gay in the spoof film Does Dracula Suck?

Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that gay and straight males ' brains respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as straight women, though it could not be determined whether this was cause or effect.

Although every song is individual, the criteria for what makes a gay anthem has shown a trend among the years.

Often shown as a ladies man with several girlfriends ( ironically, his mother is convinced he's gay due to his vocation ), he finally has settled into a relationship with Kayla, to whom he proposes in the series finale.

In his series Out of Step ( 1957 ) and People in Trouble ( 1958 )-never shown at the same time throughout the ITV network, but much repeated in various regions well into the early 1960s-he dealt with issues of social exclusion and alienation that most of the media at the time preferred to sweep under the carpet ( in this he was helped, of course, by the fact that as a gay man-a term he would not himself use even when it came to be much preferred to " homosexual "-in 1950s Britain, he could himself have fitted into the criteria of both series ).

Given some of the men Jessica is shown to be test-dating at the start of the film, ranging from borderline gay to nerd, some would probably say that it's no surprise she'd want to fan out her prospects a little.

Originally featuring more " softcore " images ( e. g. male models were usually shown without erections ), as well as fiction, news features, essays and social commentary, and articles on music and entertainment, the publication was largely regarded in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s as a gay version of Playboy or Penthouse.

His general feelings about gay rights seem to be shallow at times, like when a kiss between two men on a television show he liked was not shown, he asked Will " What about our Constitutional right to see two hotties get it on?

In the 2004 episode "," she had shown discomfort over a case in which McCoy successfully sought to have same-sex marriage declared illegal in New York in order to get testimony from a gay defendant's spouse.

However, in The Return of ' Allo ' Allo !, it was specifically made clear that Gruber was intended to be gay, even though it's shown in the last episode that he could also maintain a relationship with a woman.

Cartman objects to the films shown at this festival, insisting that they all feature " gay cowboys eating pudding ".