And the political climate in Detroit and Michigan seems immune to any sort of warming phenomenon, despite our diligent work at increasing emissions.
(Don’t believe me? Check out the Detroit Gay Bar Blight Tour on my blog about gay life in Detroit). The gay bars in the city are also decentralized, in addition to being windowless and charm-free. The gay population is dispersed geographically, although you will occasionally find little pockets of sparkle, as in Indian Village, Lafayette Park, Woodbridge or East English Village. You need to know that gay life in Detroit is sub-ideal. Now before I get going I must make a few things clear. So where is the gay community in Detroit? Why isn’t there a major presence in the city? Is Ferndale really that great for the gays? (The short answers are Chicago Chicago and sort of, yeah.) Given a metropolitan area population of about 4.5 million, you’d think there would be a visible gay presence in the exciting, dynamic, urban, up-and-coming CoD, right? I know, that’s what I thought too! So I strapped on my girdle and set my sights on finding it.
And we all know how Detroit loves to defy convention! Well, the problem with conventional wisdom is that it’s, well, conventional. Conventional wisdom says that every major city has a gay neighborhood, and that the gays are the harbingers of gentrification.
