i really don't care about the few google searches that result one of which is this site if i put in chelsea or boys town halstead st chicago tons of hits appear not a handful gays don't have to wear signs but there should be more than one drinking establishment that caters to them the one dike bar on th ave is usually pretty dead as is the one on th ave the point is there is no gay community a few lesbians does not a community make but i'm not denying that lesbians call the neighborhood home it has been a liberal neighborhood for years the point is the term itself dyke slope i don't like it i've never heard it i don't think its appropriate for wikipedia and don't tell me what to do i can type whatever i feel like on this page i think you sound like a delusional academic lesbian who wishes you had a neighborhood of your own i've never even denied that lesbians are found in the neighborhood my point is that while they have always been present perhaps in greater numbers than elsewhere they have had minimal impact on the neighborhood they certainly have not been numerous enough to warrant a term like dike slope the reality is lesbianism is largely an academic phenomenon it doesn't surprise me in the slightest some professor would make such a claim but that one class does not trump a substantial portion of my personal experience over many years