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Question to those of you with more experience.Originally Posted by iammatt
How do the various generalizations being made about the gay community, the differences between gay and straight relationships etc change when you move from a community in which there is a longer history of gay acceptance to one which is less tolerant, while staying in the same greater community, say in the US? I don't really mean the difference in interaction between the gay and straight communities, but whether the basic structure, and various subgroups have formed differently in more gay friendly places like SF and West Hollywood, where the entire community faces less overt hostility, versus other cities in the US.
Where I live now it's become very evident as the center city is cosmopolitan while surrounding areas are very socially conservative. The repression of homosexuality outside the city center has actually made a lot of gays into willing refugees from the aforementioned conservatism. As a result the downtown and surrounding areas probably have a greater homosexual demographic than normal. Most people around here have a 'live and let live' attitude toward it, but when confronted the old NIMBY attitude still shows itself.
