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. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Um, the tech workers and their girlfriends are very welcome to move into MY artsy neighborhood :)
I will stay away from that place if I am ever in the Pacific Northwest. (shudders)
“Seattle. It’s the ‘pesto’ of cities.”
When the left is intolerant....
No one in Capitol Hill should be surprised that this is happening. The amount of new stuff going up last year alone, as well as stuff down hill should have clued them in that things were changing fast.
Maybe they will all migrate down to Pioneer Square and sleep under the highway now.
Apparently the gayborhood went broke.
*VROOM! VROOM!*
Here they come on their Hell-for-Leather Vespas... THE STRAIGHT HIPSTERS!
See them...DRINKING CRAFT BREWS!
Wearing...SKINNY JEANS!
Swapping obscure movie references...WITH TOTAL STRANGERS!
THE STRAIGHT HIPSTERS!!!*
*This film has been rated M for Millennials Only. Absolutely no one over 30 admitted.
QUEEN Ann Hill is next.
Is this near where you're renting?
Another reason to like Amazon.
Next we’ll be hearing what frightens them most is that straight people all act and look alike!
If tech workers collectively complained about gay culture making Seattle unfriendly, a lot of people would get hit with a hate-crime charge. But this gay guy can rail against “men with girlfriends” daring to come to bars on Capital Hill and nobody bats an eye.
I guess the liberal techies and 21st century yuppies in the Democrats Big Tent don’t want gay people in it. Just another example of when it comes to intolerance and hate the left rules supreme in that area.
The linked article is hilarious!
But if, as the meme goes, gayness is inborn, shouldn't there be techies of a similar disposition moving in? Or does this suggest that there is a de-linkage between the trait and techy-ness?
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