Posted on 02/02/2016 3:48:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Residents of San Francisco's historically gay Castro district are worried that the gay scene is changing, and traditional LGBT institutions are rapidly disappearing
When Cleve Jones, a longtime gay activist who led the creation of the Aids Memorial Quilt, went to his local gay bar in the Castro district, he saw something that shocked him.
"The tech bros had taken over The Mix. They commanded the pool table and the patio. These big, loud, butch guys. It was scary," he said. "I'm not heterophobic, but I don't want to go to a gay bar and buy some guy a drink and have him smirk and tell me he's straight. They can go anywhere. We can't."
Residents of San Francisco's historically gay Castro district are worried that it's changing, as speculators come in to flip the few remaining ramshackle old Victorians and the old-timer gay bars shutter. In a recent small survey, 77% of people who have lived in the neighborhood for 10 or more years identified as gay, while only 55% of those who moved in the past year did.
When an iconic building was on the market earlier this year, it was between two potential tenants: a gay strip club and a SoulCycle. The SoulCycle won. This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.
"When you lose the geographic concentration, you lose a lot," Jones said. "We lose the cultural vitality, the political power - you also lose the specialized social services."
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The coprophiliacs only allow fellow perverts to the bathroom. Any man would likely deck them.
Court cases have shown gay bars have no right to discriminate against heterosexuals and should a comodate with straight ladies night.
Heterophobia? Is there a law against that?
Of course, protcted rights for liberal interests only go one way, so to speak.
Yeah, I remember when they took over WB and Disney.
They could try alcatraz, it was all men there.
Say, I know a *great* place to relocate a bunch of 18-30 year old male Syrian refugees...
“I’m not heterophobic, but I don’t want to go to a gay bar and buy some guy a drink and get my *** pounded.”
Oh, wait...
In the gay part of my city there is a bar called “The Hole” and another one called “The Flame”. I only drove by them.
One of the radio announcers was talking about which bands would be playing where, and he happened to mention a bar called the "White Swallow."
Try to find a conservative bar in SF!
Only old queens hang out at gay bars, all the other gays use online apps like Grindr.
It’s killed the gay newspaper business too.
And bringing AIDS roaring back.
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!
That’s funny...
Whoa...
Adding them to my prayer list. What a perverted world.
Good point. Exactly right.
Ditto for the Boom Boom Room in Laguna Beach, California.
“Say, I know a *great* place to relocate a bunch of 18-30 year old male Syrian refugees...”
That would be a match made in heaven, check that, I mean hell.
How can the queers call themselves “gay” when they are b!tching and whining about everything?
I thought I was reading something from The Onion.
I never have been, nor can I imagine ever being thirsty enough to go to a place called the purple pickle for a drink. Nope, just nope.
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