NBC6 news reports that Fort Lauderdale Tourism Board members said the mayor's opposition to public sex in tourist spots and bathhouses is hurting business.
It looks like that is the case.
The Tourism Board is actually saying they want and condone homosexual sex in public in their town because it is a moneymaker.
If they are willing to go that far, why not have a cable TV reality show about it? You know, film the homos doing their thing in public, it should get lots of viewers.
And preverts will flock to Ft Lauderdale!
(Just think how many barebackers won't be where we live)
The mayor is referring to the structures that contain multiple toilets as a "bathhouse," presumably meaning multiple bathrooms make up a bathhouse (as opposed to the old San Francisco-style bathhouses that were truly large indoor pools). The mayor also talked about advertisements in local papers to arrange meetings at particular stalls in a particular bathhouse.
Having gone to high school in Ft. Lauderdale, I can remember how it used to be for the "beach blanket bingo" crowd from the 1950's and 1960's, then it morphed into the spring break crowd in the 1970's, until the locals drove the college students to Daytona and then Panama City, and so apparently the gay population swooped in to fill the vacuum (probably migrating from Key West to South Beach [after the seniors who settled the area passed on] to Ft. Lauderdale).
I wonder why the locals feel that the gay economy is okay when the college economy was shunned and evicted.
-PJ