Posted on 01/21/2005 11:51:49 PM PST by kattracks
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gay activists in this staid Washington city are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife — a development religious conservatives contend would clash with Spokane's family-centered culture."A gay mecca is not what we'd like to see Spokane marketed as," said Penny Lancaster, director of Community Impact Spokane, a network of evangelical Christians. "I'd rather see us promoted as a conservative, family-oriented community without any reference to sexual orientation."
But proponents of the plan say a gay district would signal that Spokane is tolerant and progressive.
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Spokane — which in trendy Seattle is shorthand for tragically unhip — has long been dominated by conservative politics that stem from its history as a mining and farming center. But it also has a large core of Democrats and libertarians who share the West's live-and-let-live philosophy.
Most of all, the city identifies itself as a good place to raise a family — and opponents contend that's at odds with the image of a gay district.
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Florida, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, said members of the creative class consider recreation, culture and ethnic diversity, including a large population of gays, as central to where they live. Places like New York, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle have those qualities. Places like Spokane generally do not. Even though they face little discrimination, gays stay under the radar in Spokane, said Aspen, a member of the Inland Northwest Business Alliance, an association of gay and gay-friendly businesses that is pushing the idea.
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I am going to puke!
Can I create a heterosexual district there?
PUKE PUKE PUKE . I bet they'll even open up a Y-M-c-A
GREAT!!!!
What to call this wonderfully progressive and tolerant ville?
Fagville, Gay City, Homo Acres, Butt Farm (I could go on for hours)
Hey, I gotta perfect name for it.
Sodom.
Gomorrah would be good too.
Have these been used before??? ;-) ;-)
I take it only gay people will be allowed to live there?
Oh yea .. they're tolerant / sarcasm >
I thought it was called Canada.
Just what Spookavegas needs, a "Gay-ted Community".
There's this idiot long grey haired freek who has been standing on a corner by Gonzaga protesting the Iraq war who I want to run over.
There were alot of Kerry stickers and yard signs last year but Bush won over 60% of the vote :)
or .. what would happen to that person/s if it was found out later they weren't gay?
"I thought it was called Canada."
Ooooh, that was nasty. Ha!
This is truly tragic! Washington State needs to wake up.
Couldn't a heterosexual lie about their sexual orientation in order to be allowed to move into that area?
Have you been over to DU? Have you tried to stay there for 15 minutes or longer?
Drop the crack pipe. Sounds like you have a guilt complex over beating up a woman at one point in your life.
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