“…Attention to the “de‐gaying,” decline, and displacement of gay villages also re‐centered the inner‐city (Brown, 2012; Brown, 2014; Podmore, 2013a; Reynolds, 2009; Visser, 2013) with research identifying an array of contributing factors, some intrinsic to the gay village (e.g., consumer mainstreaming, residential gentrification, urban redevelopment, and homonormative entrepreneurialism) and others extrinsic (e.g., virtual networks, “post‐gay” disidentification, queer alternatives, lifestyle, and aspirational changes; Brown, 2006; Collins & Drinkwater, 2017; Doan & Higgins, 2011; Ghaziani, 2014; Kanai & Kenttamaa‐Squires, 2015; Lewis, 2013, 2017; Mattson, 2015; Nash, 2013a, 2013b; Nash & Gorman‐Murray, 2014, 2015b; Ruting, 2008; Usher & Morrison, 2010; Visser, 2014). Even research into new types of queer inner‐city sites re‐centers the gay village through comparison (Andersson, 2009, 2011; Ghaziani, 2014; Gorman‐Murray & Nash, 2014, 2017; Reynolds, 2009).…”