Lavender Heights
Lavender Heights, Sacramento's gay and lesbian district, is centrally located on K Street and 20th Street. The area owes its name to the high number of gay-owned homes and businesses residing there.
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.
Many legislators (Dean Florez and Christine Kehoe among them) choose to live in various spots in Midtown when the California legislature is in session.
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