Posted on 02/02/2016 3:48:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Residents of San Francisco's historically gay Castro district are worried that the gay scene is changing, and traditional LGBT institutions are rapidly disappearing
When Cleve Jones, a longtime gay activist who led the creation of the Aids Memorial Quilt, went to his local gay bar in the Castro district, he saw something that shocked him.
"The tech bros had taken over The Mix. They commanded the pool table and the patio. These big, loud, butch guys. It was scary," he said. "I'm not heterophobic, but I don't want to go to a gay bar and buy some guy a drink and have him smirk and tell me he's straight. They can go anywhere. We can't."
Residents of San Francisco's historically gay Castro district are worried that it's changing, as speculators come in to flip the few remaining ramshackle old Victorians and the old-timer gay bars shutter. In a recent small survey, 77% of people who have lived in the neighborhood for 10 or more years identified as gay, while only 55% of those who moved in the past year did.
When an iconic building was on the market earlier this year, it was between two potential tenants: a gay strip club and a SoulCycle. The SoulCycle won. This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.
"When you lose the geographic concentration, you lose a lot," Jones said. "We lose the cultural vitality, the political power - you also lose the specialized social services."
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Jeez, I’m not sure which is worse. Homos or techie hipsters.
OK, homos.
Reactionary, heterophobic fags.
I thought segregation was bad.
No comment will suffice, eh?
Really, the spectra of comments is so large as to defy description.
Best to just let the turd lie there in the open.
Yeah, it's pretty tough in San Francisco, where there isn't any place for gay people to go. Gimme a break.
“I’m not heterophobic, but....I hate and fear straight people”
The liberals no-doubt feel sympathy towards him. Now take everything he said, replace gay with white, straight with black. Still feel that sympathy there libtards?
How about: There goes the neighborhood!
“The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down”.
There is something about the name “Gangway Bar” that screams “stay out of here if you are normal.”
One major factor is the high death rate of the population in that locale. If there is not a constant influx of next-to-die non-straight residents, another kind of demographic will end up taking the space.
Poor oppressed fudgepackers
And speaking of old relics, the perverts keep voting for Nancy Pelosi to represent them in DC.
Sound just like racist don’t they? We don’t want your kind in here. All this groups that want to be accepted sure work at keeping themselves seperate...while whipping up hype that they are excluded.
Some of his best friends are straight.
There’s this middle-aged gay male executive at my workplace building, his “husband” visits him at work occasionally and brings their adopted little twin “daughters” with him, two adorable, innocent 3-4 year old sisters, it’s the most bizarre and unsettling modern-day insanity and makes me squirm to have to not just start verbally lambasting them and the entire workplace/society that condones such cultural abomination
Oh ho..!
NOW look at see who opposes change and diversity, eh..?
JUST WHAT I’D EXPECT.
Just wait till the Muslims move in.
Oh yeah. There was one named the Purple Pickle - I swear I am not making that up. "Yeah, I was having a few beers at the Purple Pickle last night," said no straight man ever.
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