Gayfolk

“Don, every town in America has a contingent that hates the gayfolk,” he said.

SO's affection for cats is important, but not nearly as important as not being allergic!

The gayfolk on the Mall, from Chicago and Bridgeport, Santa Cruz and South Bend, Denver, Atlanta, and Honolulu, were of the formulaic ethnic diversity you'd expect in a forties Hollywood bomber crew (directed by George Cukor, maybe).

South Beach is still full of debauched nightlife, much of it gay or lavender-tinged. But gentrification, which so often follows gayfolk to their ghettos, nudged much of the gay population out of Miami Beach in the 1990s.