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San Francisco's tech bros told: get out of the gayborhood
The Guardian ^ | Tuesday 2 February 2016 | Nellie Bowles and Sam Levin

Posted on 02/02/2016 3:48:28 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
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."


41 posted on 02/02/2016 4:31:24 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Billthedrill

That must be why they are called pickle sniffers.


42 posted on 02/02/2016 4:32:09 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: gaijin

That is always the case. It is the normal that makes the abnormal uncomfortable, because they know they are abnormal.


43 posted on 02/02/2016 4:33:45 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s so gay.


44 posted on 02/02/2016 4:35:39 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: nickcarraway

45 posted on 02/02/2016 4:36:03 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: West Texas Chuck
"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.";

In other words, YES, he IS a hate-filled homosexual wimp scared of what - even in San Francisco - are "normal" males everywhere else.

And he votes democrat.

46 posted on 02/02/2016 4:37:49 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: nickcarraway

homofascist straight haters.


47 posted on 02/02/2016 4:38:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

Is “tech bro” a new term that I’m supposed to learn, like “metrosexual” a few years ago? Does it have a specific meaning as some sort of subculture?


48 posted on 02/02/2016 4:41:54 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Billthedrill
Yeah, it's pretty tough in San Francisco, where there isn't any place for gay people to go. Gimme a break.

There's truth in that message. The stereotype of SF is that it's all gay, it isn't, and confined to a couple neighborhoods out of a couple dozen. And lots of gays have left over the last 20 years. That happened to the black population, went from 16 percent down to 5 percent, and now it's happening to the gays. They're in Seattle, Denver, Austin and other cities, but fewer in SF.

The Tenderloin district used to be all dope addicts and winos with porno theaters, got transformed when asian families moved in. The Mission district used to be latino, and now the techies and Chinese are changing it. I had some business last week with a sandblasting shop in Hunters Point, it used to be an all black area, but I saw lots of Chinese there. The gays have finally left SF and are not a majority by any means.

Plus they're getting beat up in the Mission and SOMA where they used to hang out at bars. Now they're being edged out in their home districts in the Castro and Noe Valley neighborhoods.

49 posted on 02/02/2016 4:42:48 PM PST by roadcat
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To: nickcarraway

“I’m not heterophobic, but . . . “

But what, bigot?


50 posted on 02/02/2016 4:44:39 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Such a shame, SF is wasted on turds.


51 posted on 02/02/2016 4:46:45 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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To: Billthedrill

Oh yeah. There was one named the Purple Pickle - I swear I am not making that up. “Yeah, I was having a few beers at the Purple Pickle last night,” said no straight man ever.

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In 1965, I was sitting in a bar called tha “Purple Crackle” in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois when a man walked in, drew a pistol and shot the man sitting next to me.

I’ve avoided places with the word “purple” in their name ever since.


52 posted on 02/02/2016 4:57:14 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Romulus

That day’s a-comin, when Muslims meet their supporting PC Crowd. FemiNazis and Homos meet Ragheads and Sharia.


53 posted on 02/02/2016 4:59:20 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

So there is/was such a place. I know a guy that claims to have...well, firebombed the place, or one with the same name, in the 70’s or 80’s.


54 posted on 02/02/2016 5:04:11 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: leakinInTheBlueSea

Clock Bar at the Westin St. Francis hotel is the conservative culture spot in San Francisco. That luxury hotel has been the Republican zone since the 1950s.

Don’t come dressed like a schnook or they’ll courteously turn you away pretty doggone fast.


55 posted on 02/02/2016 5:05:49 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: nickcarraway
These big, loud, butch guys. It was scary,"

You sure you weren't just a little excited, Cleve?

56 posted on 02/02/2016 5:28:29 PM PST by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

Anytime people complain that their neighborhood is being taken over I wonder how they felt when they were the ones taking over from the previous residents.

I’m sure that they didn’t give a damn.

It happens.

That’s life.

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57 posted on 02/02/2016 5:32:36 PM PST by Mears
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To: Sasparilla

The same thing happened in the Capital Hill neighborhood in Seattle. Amazon opened a new HQ there and a lot of their workers want to live in town. The gay community went all high and right because their favorite restaurants and bars were getting all straightened out.


58 posted on 02/02/2016 5:37:59 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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59 posted on 02/02/2016 5:39:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: nickcarraway

I guess the neighborhood just fagged out.


60 posted on 02/02/2016 5:43:10 PM PST by PAR35
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