Gentrification in SoBo & the Pit of Sarlaac

As I drove home last night, I took a slightly different route.  Instead of Light Street through the neighborhood, I took Charles Street, which runs parallel one block west.   The Rowan Tree has a rainbow flag hanging outside now, which I'm taking as the usual signal.  The Rowan Tree has been there on the corner for at least a year if not longer, but I don't remember seeing that flag out before.  I'm a little surprised, but not in a bad way.  My neighborhood is slowly gentrifying, but it is still more than half old South Baltimore.   By that, I mean people who lived there before rowhouses were renovated and deck-top roofs were de rigeur, who roll their eyes at the newcomers (like me), go to the neighborhood church (and there are at least 6 churches that I know of in an 8 block radius) and drink at the corner bar...which often is a converted rowhouse with just a neon sign reading BAR in the front window.  Gay-friendly is good and I don't mean to imply that South Baltimore wasn't before...it's just that most overt expressions of gay-friendliness can be found in Mount Vernon and Canton, not down below Fort Avenue.

Tangent:  I just finished Stephanie Vaughan's Off World, which I liked.  Thanks again to Rosario.  The only knocks that I have are the hasty wrap up of the plot, which I felt was given short shrift, and a lack of world building.  It was a futuristic e-book, and I thought some more back ground about the social setting would've helped develop the plot more.  :shrug:  But maybe I'm bringing my S/F/F reading hat to the table when I should take it off.   Liked the characters a lot.  

When I first started reading it, I had to keep "erasing" a mental image.  One of the heroes is named Sarhaan.  But I kept reading Sarlaac, and thinking of the Pit of Sarlaac from The Return of the Jedi.  Am I dating myself with that image?