Gay neighborhoods?? like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village?? have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream?? are "borhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the origins of these unique cultural enclaves?? the reasons why they are changing today?? and their prospects for the future.

Drawing on a wealth of evidence--including census data?? opinion polls?? hundreds of newspaper reports from across the United States?? and more than one hundred original interviews with residents in Chicago?? one