Exploring the Gay Community Question: Neighborhood and Network Influences on the Experience of Community among Urban Gay Men

摘要: The reported declining significance of gay neighborhoods has raised questions about the role enclaves as a locus for community building. Using Wellman and Leighton's “lost,” “saved,” “liberated” frameworks, we examine degree to which enclave residence network socializing are associated with experiences among men in New York City area. Multilevel models indicate that is neither directly nor indirectly perceived cohesion or attachment. Increased heterosexuals were, respectively, positively negatively our outcomes. lesbians was greater attachment, while bisexuals cohesion. Our findings lend support “gay liberated” perspective; shaped principally by relations rather than re...