Boston, USA
Introduction
Thanks to the dozens of colleges and universities that have dotted Boston’s landscape for more than two hundred years now, Beantown has long been an intellectual and social refuge for many American lesbians. In fact, the term “Boston marriage” was coined in the 19th century to refer to couples of unmarried women (usually privileged, educated, upper-class women) who lived together in the city. This recognition of a “Boston marriage” even provided the women a kind of social acceptance, and so well-known was this phenomenon that it inspired a David Mamet play of the same name.
Today Boston remains a hotbed of intellectual activity, often framed in a fairly traditional environment. But it’s also a thriving business centre that is going through a period of gentrification making it one of the more expensive cities in the United States. It’s also a beautiful city, as so many university towns are.
You’ll find Boston’s main gay village in the South End. While some lesbians hang out there, bent girls tend to gravitate more towards the neighbourhoods of Jamaica Plain (especially around Jamaica Pond in summertime!), Cambridge and hipster Somerville. Unfortunately there’s no real full-time lesbian bar in the Boston area, but don’t fret. There are so many ladies nights here your dance card will be pretty much filled, every day of the week.
If you travel to Boston during the summertime for any extended period of time you may want to consider jumping onto the ferry and heading over to Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod for a day or two. It’s one of the gayest (in every sense of the word) resort towns you’ll see in America and it’s only 90 minutes away by ferry, but hours by car (see our Provincetown listing for more info!)
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