Beck, James R.2019-09-252019-09-252017-01-10199http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/161890"On the otherwise bleak landscape of America’s decaying urban neighborhoods shines one bright spot: neighborhoods stabilized and improved by an in˘ux of a˙uent gays. “Predominantly gay neighborhoods have arisen in a dozen major cities over the last two decades, at once bolstering those cities’ sagging tax bases, pumping thousands of dollars into the economy and sometimes making tired neighborhoods safer and more attractive to heterosexuals.” 1 Where is this happening? In New York’s Greenwich Village, in the Castro district of San Francisco, in the Cheesman Park area of Denver."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderEvangelicalsHomosexualitySocial ScienceGenderCommunity ethicsSocial ethicsSexual orientation/genderIntercultural and contextual theologiesGender and theologyComparative religion and interreligious dialogueArticle