It's also popular with the gay crowd for putting down roots.

Metro attracts a casual gay crowd with its two dance floors, three bars and very dark room.

But later on her spirits rose again when she found herself one of the gay crowd bound for the Four Winds light.

In a gay crowd, she said, "you don't have to explain things.

The place was jammed with a gay, colorful and festive crowd; there were only a few vacant places even at that tremendously long bar.

I looked all over the stand for Nan, but she was lost in the gay crowd.

"A gay crowd is going to go along for the ride," Ms. Beagleman said.

From four to seven every evening the gay crowd took over like a swing shift, then left abruptly and everything went back to sloppy normalcy.