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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in downtown Bethesda, used to live in downtown Silver Spring, and I think all the locations you mention would be reasonably welcoming. Takoma Park is known to be particularly "crunchy" and left-leaning.

I suppose you know this but: this couple probably wants to be around people who are culturally American or western European (regardless of their ethnic origins). Other parts of the world don't exactly embrace homosexuality. So me, personally, I would avoid all communities of immigrants who have strong ties to the home country, who tend to socialize amongst themselves, and try to foster the same family values and traditions that they have in their home country. Because those can be hotspots for transferring racial, religious and other prejudices to the US, that perhaps their American neighbors aren't even aware of. I'm not Middle-Eastern, I'm East Asian, and I experienced this with an East Asian community as a child. They were more traditional and misogynist than the people I knew in my home country, because I think they felt threatened by their progressive community and were trying to preserve their values. Just FYI...

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