New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ sociopolitical field, and is home to one of the world's largest and most prominent LGBTQ populations. [4] Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian.