Gay neighborhoods or also called gayborhoods are generally known as being made of large gay communities all living within certain areas of an urban location. These neighborhoods have been well known to have been a welcoming community for gay residents and gay run businesses in times when the society was hostile to their culture and community.

Most of the gayborhoods can be found in the artistic or historic parts of cities, and this goes to show the strong connection between artistic and cultural preferences and the gay community. In some cases gay communities have been well known to have been the driving force of reviving socially and economically troubled areas. Sometimes the developing of gay community locations outside city areas, have become locations independent of cities and well known for their gay community culture. Most communities located in out of city gay villages are in California- West Hollywood in LA, in Florida in Wilton Manors and Plateau Mont Royal in Montreal Quebec and many others.

Inside urban areas, neighborhoods can be found in pretty much every large city on the coasts of the US: Boystwon in Chicago, South Beach in Miami Florida, Ocean Groove NJ and of course the all times famous Greenwich Village in NYC. These are a few examples of gay communities that are spread out in different regions of the country. Most of them will have various gay establishments in common: gay bars, gay pubs nightclubs bookstores and high end stylish stores, all of them being symbols of the gay culture’s preferences and tastes.

The largest metropolitan area in terms gay population is New York, making the NY-NJ-Long Island metropolitan area, the metro area with the largest gay population in the US with more than half a million gay residents.