 Generally Western European and North American born people have settled around the Lower North Shore, eastern suburbs and Sutherland Shire, Arab people around the Lakemba-Auburn region, Indo-Chinese in the south-western suburbs, South Asians around Parramatta and the south east, and North East Asians in major nodes such as Hurstville, Burwood, Strathfield, Chatswood, Eastwood, Campsie and Haymarket.Sydney has a significant gay and lesbian community, centred on Oxford Street, and holds the annual 
The Sydney lesbian community, though still active around Oxford street, is well established and visible in Newtown and Enmore in Sydney's inner west.There is also a history of lesbian community congregating in Leichhardt, and other inner west suburbs.