Lavender Heights, California
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Lavender Heights is a centrally located district in Midtown Sacramento
centered within and around K & 20th streets. The area owes its name to the high number of gay-owned homes and businesses residing there. Ashley Fleshman is the residing mayor of Lavender Heights
Lavender Heights is the hub of Sacramento's gay and lesbian community with many gay bars and restaurants. It is considered Sacramento's equivalent to The Castro (San Francisco) and Dupont Circle
(Washington D.C.) as the city's LGBT district. Community resources for the LGBT community in the area include the Gay and Lesbian Center (formerly the Lambda Center) and the Lavender Library.Most of the gay bars in Sacramento are located in the Lavender Heights area. Hate crimes and gay bashing have been an issue since the early 1990s in the area. A wave of "religious refugees" including "Slavic evangelicals" has added to the tensions, many were drawn to immigrate by Sacramento evangelical churches who sponsored them including the Assemblies of God
Capital Christian Center. In September 2009 a security guard hired by several gay nightclubs in Lavender Heights was murdered.
Midtown Sacramento
Midtown Sacramento is a historical district and neighborhood just east of Downtown Sacramento. Officially, Midtown's borders are R Street on the South, J Street on the North, 16th Street on the West and 30th Street on the East. However, the streets in Sacramento's original "grid" that are east of...
centered within and around K & 20th streets. The area owes its name to the high number of gay-owned homes and businesses residing there. Ashley Fleshman is the residing mayor of Lavender Heights
Lavender Heights is the hub of Sacramento's gay and lesbian community with many gay bars and restaurants. It is considered Sacramento's equivalent to The Castro (San Francisco) and Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood, and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The traffic circle is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, P Street NW, and 19th Street NW...
(Washington D.C.) as the city's LGBT district. Community resources for the LGBT community in the area include the Gay and Lesbian Center (formerly the Lambda Center) and the Lavender Library.Most of the gay bars in Sacramento are located in the Lavender Heights area. Hate crimes and gay bashing have been an issue since the early 1990s in the area. A wave of "religious refugees" including "Slavic evangelicals" has added to the tensions, many were drawn to immigrate by Sacramento evangelical churches who sponsored them including the Assemblies of God
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination...
Capital Christian Center. In September 2009 a security guard hired by several gay nightclubs in Lavender Heights was murdered.