Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill

Salon ^ | July 26, 2015 | By Katie Herzog

[Tax-chick]

Sorry, I meant “new job.”

[SunLakesJeff]

I’m not sure what you mean. They frequent establishments to protect territory?

I exaggerated slightly, D1. Larger point was how militant/defensive Seattle's GLBTQWhatever is active, politically. My apologies if I offended.

Seattle Pacific 1989.

[GrouchoTex]

Sense scotus says your one of us, why do you need your own neighborhood? Oh, you wanted Jim Crow? Separate but equal? Hypocrites!

[oblomov]

Some of Criscitello's art. Admittedly, it made me laugh:

[DoughtyOne]

You didn’t offend me at all. I was just trying to understand exactly what you meant. No problem.

I don’t want to see people mistreated, but when communities trend away from homosexuals, I’m all for it.

Imagine the reverse. Your communities establishments all of a sudden go homosexual.

Yikes, all your old haunts suddenly places you never want to go again.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The same thing is happening in Ballard.

[SunLakesJeff]

Turned out to be a to be a metal sleeve.......from a vertical drilling attempt......that was used to collect soil samples.......for the Alaskan Way project.

Seattle was hell-bent on that silly World's Fair in 1962. Sell off Seattle Center, including the Space Needle. Give everyone an electric car ;-)

However, that silly World's Fair debuted the Touch Tone telephone. Bow accordingly...

[SunLakesJeff]

Yikes, all your old haunts suddenly places you never want to go again.

Moved to Arizona in 2008, barely ahead of the Housing Crash. Still have a huge Seattle soft spot.

[SevenofNine]

OOPS Bad idea

Okay never mind ROFL

[Smokin' Joe]

NIMBY trumps diversity.

[DH]

“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.”

Sounds like the author was as queer as a 3 dollar bill. He was in love with “the artist.” because he could make his “thing” look like a pretzel.

[MinorityRepublican]

LOL #LGBT #LOVEWINS # OBAMASAMERICA

[kcvl]

John Criscitello

[Mase]

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.

Exactly so. It has been this way for a long, long time.

[LegendHasIt]

Oh, Chornaya
(Crimea River)

But not to worry Homos...

0bama’s new HUD rules etc. will soon fill your neighborhood with Black Panthers, La Razas and Welfare Moms.

[DoughtyOne]

It’s very tough to let go.

I left Joplin, Missouri in 1969. Forty-six years later I still feel like I left a few months ago, and I miss it very much.

All your old haunts, that period in your life, it hangs there in limbo.

The best you can do is develop new friends and replace it as best you can.

I live in Glendale, California now. I was born here and spent my whole adult life here. It has changed so much, I should leave. I doubt I ever will.

[roadcat]

The Castro in San Francisco used to be a working-class Irish neighborhood.

Neighborhoods constantly change, they don't stay fixed to the same demographics for long. This article points out that gays have been leaving San Francisco in droves, many have been displaced by incoming heterosexual straight tech couples (and they have kids). Yet a bunch of people on FR keep spreading the false message that SF is all gay. Far from it, as the tiny percentage is shrinking. As you say, the Castro used to be an Irish neighborhood. Same for other districts, like the Mission that used to be all white Irish/German/Italian until recently when hispanics came in. Those same hispanics are now complaining because white tech workers are taking over the "historically" hispanic Mission District ("historically" for a few decades). The white tech workers (including asian tech workers) are cleaning up the city and displacing the trash.

[bjorn14]

Yep. Except its the old Norwegian/Icelandic fishing families that are being driven out too.

[ViLaLuz]

“We came here to get away from you.”
.......
Where’s the tolerance and diversity?

[Drew68]

and in the most liberal neighborhood in one of the most liberal cities in America, hate crimes are on the rise.

The hate crimes aren't being committed by Amazon tech workers.