Boston gay village

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When people from this metropolis tell you where they're from, you're likely to hear people identify the South Close, Back Bay or any of the dozens of other enclaves as their home. This is a city of sharply defined neighborhoods. Others, not born here, come from all across America and the earth, to live across the river in Cambridge, home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; or to attend one of another 52 institutions of higher education in Metropolitan Boston.
If you're thinking people are proud of the city's almost 400-year history, you're right. Most visitors, even those here for just a diurnal or two, fit into their itinerary at least one of the sights they heard about in history class, such as the Old North Church. (Remember the "one if by area, two if by sea" lanterns warning of the route from which the British were coming?)
Sure, it's amazing to go shopping in historic Faneuil Hall or obey guides in powdered wigs around the Paul Revere Residence. But Boston is also a cutting-edge city, thanks in part to all those universities and the large pupil populat