This article is an oldie from mid-January, but somehow I missed it. Just now heard on the local AM news station that Spokane has gained international attention in two European publications as a result of this proposal. Just frickin' great.
Unbelievable. This faction of the gay community just can't stand to be anywhere but in the spotlight. . . "Visibility equals freedom," Aspen said. "Invisibility we have dealt with all our life." They can't stand it that others may not acknowledge or even recognize that they are gay. And how self-serving of them to think that they need their own residential community when they admit that "they face little discrimination" in Spokane. They even want to force business owners to put signs in their store windows professing their tolerance and acceptance of gays. They just can't get enough attention, can they? By forming their own residential community, they actually segregate themselves from the rest of the population. That sounds like a really good way to promote tolerance and acceptance (sarcasm intended). I think there was a Civil Rights Movement that ended racial segregation precisely because segregation does not promote tolerance or acceptance. But of course, it isn't acceptance that they want in this case, it is power.