In the 1980s DC’s gay neighborhood began shifting eastward to 17th Street NW. ![]() Get an RSS Feed for all Borderstan stories or subscribe to Borderstan’s daily email newsletter. Here’s how Borderstan voters responded, with results for earlier years shown for comparison. The number of readers who chose those two options this year, 30%, was up from 26% in 2012.ĭupont Circle, once the center of DC’s LGBT community, has gotten almost exactly the same results in the last three years - 13% in 2012, 12% in 2011 and 14% in 2010. A variety of neighborhoods were listed, with Capitol Hill being the most popular write-in choice. The number of readers selecting Other jumped to 6% this year. ![]() The choice of “Everywhere and Nowhere” actually finished second again this year with 22% of survey respondents. “This is such a 1970s question” got 8% of the votes - you have to figure there is a tie-in to the “Everywhere and Nowhere” attitude of an increasing number of both DC’s gay and non-gay community. While Dupont Circle was once considered DC’s official gay neighborhood, the percentage of readers declined from 13% last year.
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