Editing Gay village (section)

==History==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1983-0121-500, Berlin, Bar "Eldorado".jpg|thumb|Gay bar "[[Eldorado (Berlin)|Eldorado]]" in Berlin-Schöneberg, 1932]]
[[File:Saint Catherine Street, rainbow, Montreal 1.jpg|thumb|[[Gay Village, Montreal|Le Village gai]], in [[Montreal]]]]
The neighbourhood of [[Schöneberg]] in [[Berlin]] was the first gay village in the world, developing in the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kwak |first=Chaney |date=2013-06-22 |title=A Berlin neighborhood, still resonating with pride |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/a-berlin-neighborhood-still-resonating-with-pride/2013/06/20/7a1a8cda-d76b-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html |access-date=2022-12-02 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Prior to the 1960s and 1970s, specialized LGBT communities did not exist as gay villages in the United States; bars were usually where LGBT [[social network]]s developed, and they were located in certain urban areas where police zoning would implicitly allow so-called "deviant entertainment" under close surveillance.

In New York, for example, the congregation of gay men had not been illegal since 1965; however, no openly [[gay bar]] had been granted a license to serve alcohol. The police raid of a private gay club called the [[Stonewall Inn]] on June 27, 1969, led to a series of minor disturbances in the neighborhood of the bar over the course of the subsequent three days and involving more than 1,000 people. The [[Stonewall Rebellion]] managed to change not only the profile of the gay community but the dynamic within the community itself. This, along with several other similar incidents, precipitated the appearance of gay ghettos throughout North America, as spatial organization shifted from bars and street-cruising to specific neighborhoods. This transition "from the bars to the streets, from nightlife to daytime, from 'sexual deviance' to an alternative lifestyle" was the critical moment in the development of the gay community.<ref>Castells, 1983 p.141</ref> On June 24, 2016, the [[Stonewall National Monument]] was named the first [[List of national monuments of the United States|US National Monument]] dedicated to the LGBT-rights movement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html|title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement|first=Eli |last=Rosenberg|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 24, 2016|access-date=June 24, 2016|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412124837/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Montreal's [[Gay Village, Montreal|Gay Village]] developed a bilingual French and English identity reflective of the city itself.<ref name=MontrealVillageGai/>

Online communities had developed globally by the early 2000s as a resource connecting gay villagers worldwide to provide information for arts, travel, business, gay counseling, and legal services, aiming to provide safe and gay-friendly environments for members of LGBT communities in general.