Center City's gayborhood, with its rainbow street signs, attracts the lion's share of attention from Philly's LGBT visitors, but funky Queen Village, the city's oldest neighborhood, deserves a twirl. Named after Queen Christina of Sweden (herself

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Center City's gayborhood, with its rainbow street signs, attracts the lion's share of attention from Philly's LGBT visitors, but funky Queen Village, the city's oldest neighborhood, deserves a twirl. Named after Queen Christina of Sweden (herself rumored to be queer), there's plenty of gay family mingling among its 18th-century homes and narrow streets just west of the Delaware River and south of Independence Hall. Don't miss gay-owned crêperie Beau Monde, positioned beneath L'Etage, a red curtain-draped cabaret that hosts DJs and monthly drag by Martha Graham Cracker, or the chance to pick up South Street-worthy hipster gear at bargain prices at Philadelphia AIDS Thrift.

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