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Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill
Salon ^ | July 26, 2015 | By Katie Herzog

Posted on 07/26/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

SEATTLE--“They’ve taken an area that was formerly a home for gay people, for queer people, for artists,” says John Criscitello while showing me around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, “and they’ve turned it into a destination drinking spot.”

Criscitello, an artist who lives and works on Capitol Hill, is 48 years old but looks a decade younger. He’s tall and muscled, with tattoos covering most of his skin and blue eyes that stand out against the gloomy Seattle sky. He hasn’t been in the city long — he moved from New York just four years ago — but in that short time, he’s seen the neighborhood change immensely. His guerrilla posters, wheat-pasted to buildings and telephone poles, say things like “Welcome rich kids” and “We came here to get away from you.”

For the last half-century, Capitol Hill has been Seattle’s Castro, its Boystown, its Gayborhood. Well before they could get married in Washington or any other state, gays and lesbians could find community, safety and affordable housing on the Hill. But Capitol Hill has moved from a place that was a little gritty, a little divey and very queer to a party zone for straight people. Weekends on the Hill feel like Mardi Gras, and bars that were once reliably safe for the queer populace are filled with the neighborhood’s new residents — heterosexual tech workers and their girlfriends. The two cultures — the old queer folks, the new tech workers — sometimes clash, and in the most liberal neighborhood in one of the most liberal cities in America, hate crimes are on the rise. . .

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 2percent; amazon; butthurtfags; capitolhill; gayborhood; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; seattle
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1 posted on 07/26/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How can this be??? Liberals are supposed to be so.tolerant. homosexuals urged us for decades to be tolerant of them. Hate crimes among competing liberal tolerant people??? I am shocked.


2 posted on 07/26/2015 3:07:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“...tall and muscled...(with AIDS)...”


3 posted on 07/26/2015 3:07:56 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Don’t they realize that means it’s time for them to move on and gentrify a new neighborhood? I mean, there’s an order and cycle to these things.


4 posted on 07/26/2015 3:11:20 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’s called evolution. Things change. Liberals worship evolution yet are the very ones that want everything to remain the status quo.


5 posted on 07/26/2015 3:11:43 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Being it's Seattle one assumes these are two liberal groups who have found out they don't like each other...couldn't happen to a more deserving crowd...to each other. Apologies to any of our conservative friends I Seattle!!!
6 posted on 07/26/2015 3:12:02 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Butthurt much?? Poor little creepy flamer is a bigot.


7 posted on 07/26/2015 3:12:49 PM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
gays and lesbians could find community, safety and affordable housing

You can find that it many other places. I reject their premise that one must live among gays to be safe and have community. Maybe you'd have more people interested in you if your sex life wasn't front and center. We're all sick of it.

8 posted on 07/26/2015 3:14:17 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Brad from Tennessee
" in the most liberal neighborhood in one of the most liberal cities in America, hate crimes are on the rise. . ."

Do you think the writer means hate crimes like putting up posters that say "we came here to get away from people like you"? Well, that's just hateful; not a crime. :rolleyes

9 posted on 07/26/2015 3:14:48 PM PDT by Mrs_Puddleglum (First God. Then family. Then country.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
This has been "building" for at least twenty years, and it's among all urban neighborhoods.

The reasonable level-headed will move to Seattle urban/south areas, such as West Seattle and Georgetown.
10 posted on 07/26/2015 3:14:50 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Uh....better stick to bars where the glasses are washed in scalding hot water...just saying.


11 posted on 07/26/2015 3:16:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Now they know how we feel.


12 posted on 07/26/2015 3:17:04 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Lizavetta

BTTFT


13 posted on 07/26/2015 3:17:24 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Let me understand this correctly ... the homosexuals are shocked that when you strip an entire neighborhood of morality by morphing it into a haven for sodomy, that other forms of hedonism would quickly take root in that same community? Really. Seems like Captain Obvious needs to make a house call. Homosexuals are not that dumb when portrayed on television ...


14 posted on 07/26/2015 3:17:32 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I started my teaching career out in Seattle back in the early 60s, and we lived with our two kids (at that time) on Capitol Hill. It was a pleasant family neighborhood, with lots of kids. There was one gay couple on our block, and that was it. Mostly it was Catholic families. Our babysitter had eleven brothers and sisters.

Then, after we left, the Gays took over. And now they are being outspent and driven out by Amazon, apparently.

So it goes. Tough luck, gays.


15 posted on 07/26/2015 3:17:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I am totally enjoying would that be something like say family of Hobby Lobby put company in Seattle WA

let see how the gays react


16 posted on 07/26/2015 3:18:43 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
He’s tall and muscled, with tattoos covering most of his skin and blue eyes that stand out against the gloomy Seattle sky.

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Katie, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here.

17 posted on 07/26/2015 3:18:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
They’ve taken an area that was formerly a home for gay people, for queer people, for artists,” says John Criscitello while showing me around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, “and they’ve turned it into a destination drinking spot.

Anyone else spot the problem here? LOL

Homosexuals don't like bars and dancing? Really?

What they don't like is that the bars and dancing is heterosexual in nature. Can't have them people in OUR side of town. They'll ruin the place.

18 posted on 07/26/2015 3:19:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Wonder how these elitists will react when The Messiah and his ‘sons’ and ‘daughter’ grab their Section 8 vouchers and move in. . .
19 posted on 07/26/2015 3:19:20 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Lizavetta

There is always Ballad Washington

OH wait a minute NO I don’t think gays couldn’t handle Noreweigan American fishing families LOL!


20 posted on 07/26/2015 3:19:26 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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