"You would think that there would be a card in this gay Mecca," she said.

San Francisco's frontier spirit and wild and ribald character started its reputation as a gay mecca in the first half of the 20th century.

Eventually, the area surrounding Hula's became the gay mecca in Waikiki.

"Key West is not going to be the gay Mecca that it was," Charlie Barry, 42, said.

For years, friends had told me that "PV" was becoming a new gay mecca, but I was skeptical.

This documentary chronicles the community's transformation from nudist colony to gay mecca, and reflects on the political, environmental and social battles fought throughout its history.

Jackson Heights has been a gay mecca since the 1920's when the quick subway ride to Times Square drew vaudevillians here.

He decided to relocate to Atlanta, Georgia, an area considered by many to be the black, gay Mecca.