Last blog! It's been real!

hmmm, this is a toughy because we've covered so much in class but here goes nothing!
This might not nessecarily be something I believed at one time but it is something I wonder about: the organization of miniorites in the city.
Alright this goes perfectly with both a dicussion we had in Common Ground (the GLBT group on campus) and today's issue of the Red Eye, which is about (one of my favorite parts of the city) Boystown.
In Common Ground we brought up why do certain miniorites set up their own enclaves inside citys like Chinatowns, Gay Villages, Little Italies, etc. and the Red Eye pointed out this morning that Boystown was being "infiltrated" by others outside of the GLBT community and how some people were afraid it'd harm the neighborhood.
Granted, Boystown does kind of have a strange set up since it's right next to Wriglyville and-in my experince-homos and drunk sports fans don't mix, but whatever it seems to work.
My point is why do miniorites form communties in which they are both seperate (some would even say segregated) yet still part of the city as a whole? Someone in the meeting said it's to foster a sense of "togetherness" and commradary in a city that might otherwise be anything but.
And yeah, that sort of might be true, I can see why but there may be more to it then just that especially when you think about the suburbs, which has less ethic diversity and therefore more need of "togetherness", yet suburbs (for the most part) are more confroming or the communties are extremely confined.
I don't know. It most likely has something to do with space. I'd be intrested in learning more about it.