"We're really just your everyday normal parents. Really! No really! Stop laughing! REALLY, we are! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING ! WE ARE NORMAL, $%#&*!! NORMAL!!
Posted on 04/24/2006 11:23:54 AM PDT by DBeers
AMERICA'S most famous homosexual community is grappling with a perplexing situation — how to become family-friendly and still retain its legendary spirit of sexual freedom.
The Castro district of San Francisco has been a magnet for homosexuals since the 1967 "Summer of Love", drawing people from across world with its gay pride parades.
But things are changing thanks, in part, to the so-called "gayby boom", the increasing number of same-sex couples becoming parents.
In California nearly 60,000 children are being raised by same-sex couples. In addition, heterosexual families with children are choosing to live there.
The shift has resulted in tension between parents who want the more explicit window displays and posters toned down, and those determined to guard against any censorship.
Clashes between parents and shopkeepers include complaints from a lesbian mother of two about a shop with a sado-masochistic window display.
Others have complained about explicit shop displays and posters that feature naked, sexually aroused men.
"I am happy that people can enjoy a lifestyle that is denied to them back home in Kansas, but there are appropriate standards of behaviour, regardless of your sexual orientation," Jeremy Paul, a father of two boys, told the Los Angeles Times.
Some shop owners say they have removed the most provocative displays.
Mark Walsh, 50, the manager of a gay sex shop called Rock Hard, said: "There are always a few outspoken couples with children, both heterosexual and gay, who expect everything to be prim and proper.
"But this is the Castro, and anybody who moves here knows what they are moving to. We are very sexual people, and we do tend to flaunt it a little … This is the one place in the country where we can all gather and be ourselves and not have to worry."
Some areas of Castro life are adjusting, with children's menus in restaurants and a new gay family float planned for the gay pride parade.
Thom Lynch, the director of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Centre, said the area was gradually adjusting to its changing make-up.
He had heard of some complaints, including "a woman upset about a Buddhist god with a very large penis".
William Rogers, a city official, said: "Traditionally, the Castro has been about adults, bars, sexual expression and a gay community that has largely focused on adult needs and desires.
"As more lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer people have children, there is an inherent tension between preserving that adult community and shifting toward a culture that includes children, and in some ways that means altering the meaning of the Castro to include the needs of children."
Wow! It's one miraculous birth after another in San Fran.
It's the obvious quote in response to the quote by the flamer who thinks that somehow the perverted lifestyle has been banned in Kansas.
Oh, it was too difficult to get in. The place had no front door - everyone was going in the back door.
;-)
San Francisco and family friendly is an oxymoron.....The local Metro Rag in San Jose had a classified ad with lesbian women seeking gay sperm donors..how much more twisted can you get, wait, I don't want to know.....
"We're really just your everyday normal parents. Really! No really! Stop laughing! REALLY, we are! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING ! WE ARE NORMAL, $%#&*!! NORMAL!!
AMERICA'S most famous homosexual community is grappling with a perplexing situation — how to become family-friendly and still retain its legendary spirit of sexual freedom.
Perplexing situation -how can one be both anti-family and family-friendly?
LOL - actually the answer [they] seek is how can one be inherently anti-family and still pretend to be family-friendly? Answer -- Not Possible (the Dummie Political Party has created the same perplexing situation for itself)...
Debauched perverts bound for hell.
I know one guy from San Fran...
His parents haven't spoken to him since he enlisted in the Marines.
It is ironic that these families with children are complaining about the very culture to which they contributed.
I was in Amsterdam a few years back, and the taking a bath in the canal part sounds like a whole new level of disgusting. But since the guy was a hippy it could have only been an improvement.
"Mark Walsh, 50, the manager of a gay sex shop called Rock Hard, said: "There are always a few outspoken couples with children, both heterosexual and gay, who expect everything to be prim and proper."
No, not everything. Just the stuff that's publically visible. What happens behind closed doors is of no particular interest to most of us - we just don't think there's a place for pornography visible in, or from, public places.
They're all fags as far as I'm concerned.
I hear you had to go up the canal to get in.
If you raise your child in the Castro, you need to have that child removed from your custody immediately... that street is not remotely appropriate for children, regardless of your "parents" picadillos.
Now, now, Hamilton,
Just because you are concerned that such children are perhaps being "reared" by gay parents living in the Castro is no reason to suggest that gap parents may not have a perfectly valid culture to which they are introducing their children.
If it is good enough for Kofi's minions and the rest of the UN, how can you possibly question such child rearing? Let us now contemplate the wisdom of multi-culturalism.
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - -
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ALl I know is I learned a new owrd & new insult today.
STOP BEING SUCH A GAYBY!!!!
Duh...new word....not owrd.....an owrd is something entirely different.
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