Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé

NY Times ^ | October 30, 2007 | PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN

[neverdem]

[NonValueAdded]

How could they leave off Provincetown from that map and whatsamatter, couldn’t they line up a beer sponsor this time?

[Jaysun]

Where the Godless freaks and hippies gather violence soon follows. It’s always been that way.

[montag813]

The NYC one is always fun.

[SteveMcKing]

Gays resent how mainstream they’ve become, even though that’s what they were pushing for (supposedly).

[doorgunner69]

El Paso? Fort Worth??

What the hell is happening to Texas???

[Moose4]

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican boy...

Sorry, Marty.

}:-)4

[I see my hands]

"Where the Godless freaks and hippies gather violence soon follows. It’s always been that way"

True enough. True too with endeavors of all men and all pursuits. Not always violence but the same dynamic.

Birth, vitality, dysfunction, death. It is the way of the stars and the way of a bridge club and all between.

[tbw2]

Dallas I’d believe. But Fort Worth?

[ElkGroveDan]

El Paso????? What about Austin?

[gondramB]

This makes sense. I’ve read up on the Castor distict - it was originally below the line where black people were allowed to live so housing was cheap and attracted artists...

Now, in town prices are sky rocketing so its not cheap any more.

[tbw2]

Yeah, I’d give you Austin.

[Iron Munro]

Good data for anyone looking to start up a chain of AIDS clinics.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Where the Godless freaks and hippies gather violence soon follows. It’s always been that way.

That's not what's doing it in this case - it's young black thugs from Oakland and Richmond bringing their gang violence to the Castro, although local media is too politically correct to properly identify the perpetrators. San Francisco is closing the 16th and Mission BART station at 8:30 pm solely in the hope that those types won't ride across the Bay and get off there. A better strategy would be to take advantage of the situation by leaving the station open and having twenty SWAT teams there waiting to run warrant checks on everybody who gets off the train. ;)

[DGHoodini]

Every day is Halloween in Deathocratland

[longtermmemmory]

NYT bias.

Interesting how the NYT kind of omits the whole dying from STD’s

Interesting if we just generously average ALL those numbers at roughly 28,000 and divide by 300 million the percentage is .000093! ...and that is being WAAAAAAY over generous with the 28,000!

So a sexual recreational behavior has the special attention of the NYT.

...all the news thats fit to print. The grey lady is truly dead.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Bump. Homosexuality is bad, but the Castro District people aren’t the ones causing this violence in their own community. It is people out to target ‘queers.’

[edcoil]

FW, I believe the Bass brothers might not endorse that and nothing happens in FW without their say.

[MoochPooch]

Now, in town prices are sky rocketing so its not cheap any more.

I would have thought that most gays would be able to afford to stay there. Given their prominence in high-powered fields like media & entertainment arts & their (usually) childless lifestyle, they would have more than enough income.