Do you live in one of these five up & coming, gay-friendly neighborhoods?

Everybody knows if you’re looking for the freshest art, edgiest retail, and an all-around good time, you follow your gay* friends’ lead to the hottest spot in your urban area. But what if you don’t live in Chicago (where you obviously know to get off the red line in Boystown), can’t get to San Fran’s Castro, and aren’t a fabulous stone’s throw from Brooklyn?

You may still be in luck! Check out these five budding hoods where hip stuff is happening for gay and straight folks alike, and think about planning a trip with your best LGBT buddy – all for fun and fun for all!

(Five fave hot-spots after the jump.)

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Van Jones on Labor and LGBT Movements

Environmental activist and ex-Obama cabinet member Van Jones just came out with a video with Colage that highlights some of the similarities between the labor movement and the LGBT movement, such as that they both start with L. (He doesn’t actually bring that up in the video—but luckily, I brought it up just now!)

“We need to make sure we have jobs for everybody, opportunity for everybody, fairness for everybody,” Jones says. “Let’s bring these fights together.”

Colage posted the video under the title “Van Jones: We’re In This Together.” To get further amped about being in something together, you can also sing along to the karaoke version of “We’re All In This Together,” from High School Musical.