As a queer woman who fled to the northeast and settled with her wife in Park Slope, Brooklyn, I’ve always been interested in “gayborhoods.”
After reading There Goes the Gayborhood? by Dr. Amin Ghaziani, where he talks about the dispersion and shifting of queer enclaves, I decided to look into the numbers. The US Census is usually the go-to source for demographic data, but there are no questions about sexual orientation or gender identity, so I ended up creating an index to measure the certainty of an area being a gayborhood. The index combines Census and tax filing records, pride march routes, and yelp businesses tagged as “gay bars.” See the full project and explore 15 major American cities here.