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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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To: KC_Lion

Capitol Hill is nice enough! My mom lives there and I had my first chocolate martini when I went to visit a couple years ago! Nice views of everything from there including the bay and the big mountain to the south.


81 posted on 07/27/2015 8:22:24 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: so_real

“morphing it into a haven for sodomy”

I’d rather deal with that than the drama.
“He never speaks to me, the bidj”
Next day: “He spoke to me. Can you believe the nerve of that bidj?”.


82 posted on 07/27/2015 8:25:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: MrEdd

Homosexuals also don’t make crotch groping passes at complete strangers on television.

On television commercials they’re always fawning over some baby that they’ve managed to acquire...


83 posted on 07/27/2015 9:29:37 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (build)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
SEATTLE--“They’ve taken an area that was formerly a home for gay people, for queer people, for artists,”...

Mrs. JimRed gets annoyed with me when I equate the artsy-fartsy crowd with homosexuals. Now they're admitting it; I'll have to forward this to her.

84 posted on 07/27/2015 10:26:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: roadcat
Yet a bunch of people on FR keep spreading the false message that SF is all gay.

Well, they VOTE like homosexuals and other assorted progressive undesirables, hence the sanctuary city designation.

85 posted on 07/27/2015 10:37:55 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Hulka
Wonder how these elitists will react when The Messiah and his ‘sons’ and ‘daughter’ grab their Section 8 vouchers and move in. . .

Nope, not gonna happen. Unless they're forced to, no one in Capitol Hill wants to accept Section 8 families. They'd have to lower the rents in order to qualify...they would lose money.

The Section 8 people would be welcome to stay in the South Central area of Seattle...their own section of town.

86 posted on 07/27/2015 10:50:31 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Only one solution left.....)
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To: JimRed
Well, they VOTE like homosexuals and other assorted progressive undesirables, hence the sanctuary city designation.

You are correct on that point. But things can, and will change as the demographics change. The asian population grew, and got a Chinese mayor elected (instead of the gay candidates or hispanic candidates). The far-left liberals still dominate on the Board of Supervisors and other power positions, so the Chinese mayor goes along with them. Now, with the influx of straight white tech workers, many of whom are married parents with children, the voting should trend more conservative. People want their kids to be safe. SF was a republican city for most of the 20th century until the mid-1960s and an influx of outsiders from the east coast ruined it (same goes for California in general). Hopefully it can shift back to saner politics.

87 posted on 07/27/2015 11:14:13 AM PDT by roadcat
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