It is not a renaisance. It is the mark of a non-productive area. little pansy shops mean nothing and contribute nothing but low end jobs at best.
Waiters, short order cooks, and junk/art dealers who work for slave wages mean nothing to the nation’s standing in the world.
It is just a mark of a dead city walking.
“One of the hardest parts of the experience, the boys said, was deciding who would be king and who would be queen.”
I used two brain cells with this one : A Queen is a WOMAN.
Those two brain cells fought valiantly, but I’m afraid they are too poisoned to return to the rest of my brain and the usual thoughts I process on a daily basis since I was born. The brain cells are now walking away, on a self-imposed gulag into the hot, hot desert.
Perhaps these kids should spend more time absorbing even BASIC studies and less time finding new and recursively offensive orifices to stick their willy.
“When I was that age, I lost a tooth - not my virginity.”
Yeah you're right -- Hudson was much better when there were no jobs, except for prostitution, illegal drug sales, and delivering bag money for corrupt politicians. And I pine for the days when every other building on Warren Street was boarded up and falling down, and a person couldn't walk a block without tripping over a homeless person or getting panhandled or even worse, getting rolled. Yessirre, those were to good old days.
BTW, many of the "pansy shops" are located in buildings that were once abandoned and on the verge of collapse. The gay people who brought these buildings and the buildings where they now live paid a 6% real estate commission and/or back taxes to the County, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars to local architects, engineers, and contractors to rehabilitate these buildings. The contractors hired construction workers and subcontractors, and brought materials, equipment, and supplies from local lumber shops, hardware stores, etc., and their employees spent some of the money they earned at the local deli, restaurants, and taverns, all of which produced jobs that previously did not exist. And while you may characterize these jobs as "low end," a low end job is better than no job at all and often leads to bigger and better things.