Posted on 02/23/2006 3:34:05 AM PST by Panerai
A gay Web site’s praise of bawdy bathroom behavior in Malden City Hall has sparked a tempest over the toilet.
The mayor is ordering the first-floor men’s room to remain open while city councilors want it locked up or a security plan put in place.
“The public needs these kinds of facilities and I don’t see the need of closing it,” said Malden Mayor Richard Howard, adding others are “overreacting” to the gay site.
An anonymous letter sent to the City Council alerted them to a five-star ranking on the Gay Universe site for male-on-male sexual encounters in the stalls.
The men’s room in Malden City Hall is the only municipal building listed, according to the site. It’s a desirable destination some politicians are determined to blot out.
“God forbid someone’s kids are in there when this is going on,” said Councilor John Furlong.
City Council President Michael T. Sheehan, in a letter faxed to the Herald, called on the mayor to present a “security plan” to protect those who need to use the bathroom if he intends to keep it open.
Frank Conway of the Government Center Commission, which oversees the bathrooms, said there have been arrests for trespassing and damage.
“I just hope we don’t have to hire a detail officer to stay down there,” he added.
That's just nasty...
Gee, I wonder what makes or breaks a stall's chances of jumping from 4-star to 5-star. OTOH, maybe I don't need to know. Never mind.
Queers are just nasty.
Where I live, they all meet before work (7 - 9 AM) and at lunch (11 - 2) in the local strip mall.
Everyone, including the cops, know what's going on and nobody does anything about it.
By the way, this mall is right across the street from the high school.
When I worked at Bloomingdale's in Roosevelt Field their bathroom turned up as a popular spot on a gay website. Some television station took a hidden camera in there and wow! that's all I'll say. A NYPD's ten year old son was in one bathroom and a guy was looking over the stall at him :( After that, they posted a security guard by the bathroom.
Ambience?
A couple of years ago, we had to have a security code lock put on the men's room on the floor I work on in my office building. There had been reports of, um, unauthorized people coming in off the streets and getting off the elevator on our floor to use the bathroom. The final straw, however, was after our mail room guy went in there and ran into a couple of gay construction workers doing their thing in one of the stalls.
How romantic. Gay love. Not about sex, huh?
Would part of your defintion of ambience include the olfactory wow factor?
Regardless, this is one bathroom I simply wont be using ever, but then, I highly doubt Ill be visiting Kennedys state anyways, please, please, please, please God.
It's really something when an entire state reminds ya of a bathroom stall. This is pure Kennedy power and the aroma is not that of the sea shore.
IIRC there was a case in Mass. a few years ago that limited the privacy of someone in a stall in a restroom, basically saying it's ok to peek into an occupied stall or to make a pass at someone in a stall. This might habve been intertwined with/ramifications from issues concerning gay sex at highway rest stops. Anyone remember the details?
Gay construction workers???? That is just sick!
Sounds like a plot line for the next Ang Lee movie.
"High Rise Hi-jinks or Love on the Girders"
Take this article with you and next time someone tries to tell you being queer is "Normal" let them read about the toilet Rangers who hang around public restrooms ,drilling holes in the stalls so they can watch other men relieve themselves.
Most men have been in bathrooms with the lip lickers and fly peepers. Sickening pack of freaks. I understand the womens locker room at a pro tennis match is just as bad.
If once again I state my view of this subject some moderator will again put me into time out.
Look for the defective gene.
This is a Massachusetts City Hall, isn't it? So, why don't they just convert the restroom into a wedding chapel?
Local story. A pervert at a Wal-Mart was using a phone to film a 11 yr old boy.
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