He read about the possibility of Asbury Park becoming a gay enclave, and he ventured down in April 2000.
There was talk of moving to Wilton Manors, a growing gay enclave outside Fort Lauderdale.
(They'd be better advised to hightail it to the city's black or gay enclaves or even the suburbs.)
For months, march posters and notices have dotted gay enclaves from Manhattan to Seattle.
Stuart Michaels, a research sociologist at the University of Chicago, lives in Lakeview, an area that has been steadily gentrified into a gay enclave.
They boarded the ferry in Cherry Grove, another gay enclave that neighbors the Pines.
Long waits for housing and strict rules about who can live where make the idea of a gay enclaves, like those in Greenwich Village or the Castro, highly unlikely.
One afternoon at the beach with a girlfriend, Sayoko suddenly realizes that they are sitting in the middle of a sort of gay enclave.
He added that with the recent addition of condos, and mainstream chains like Starbucks, the neighborhood is becoming less of a gay enclave and more family-oriented.
Passers-by and patrons of other bars in the largely gay enclave joined them, and the crowd swelled to around 400.