Posted on 07/26/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
SEATTLE--“They’ve taken an area that was formerly a home for gay people, for queer people, for artists,” says John Criscitello while showing me around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, “and they’ve turned it into a destination drinking spot.”
Criscitello, an artist who lives and works on Capitol Hill, is 48 years old but looks a decade younger. He’s tall and muscled, with tattoos covering most of his skin and blue eyes that stand out against the gloomy Seattle sky. He hasn’t been in the city long — he moved from New York just four years ago — but in that short time, he’s seen the neighborhood change immensely. His guerrilla posters, wheat-pasted to buildings and telephone poles, say things like “Welcome rich kids” and “We came here to get away from you.”
For the last half-century, Capitol Hill has been Seattle’s Castro, its Boystown, its Gayborhood. Well before they could get married in Washington or any other state, gays and lesbians could find community, safety and affordable housing on the Hill. But Capitol Hill has moved from a place that was a little gritty, a little divey and very queer to a party zone for straight people. Weekends on the Hill feel like Mardi Gras, and bars that were once reliably safe for the queer populace are filled with the neighborhood’s new residents — heterosexual tech workers and their girlfriends. The two cultures — the old queer folks, the new tech workers — sometimes clash, and in the most liberal neighborhood in one of the most liberal cities in America, hate crimes are on the rise. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
I’m not sure what you mean. They frequent establishments to protect territory?
“Gays” are disgusting!!!!
And it’s not just Christians and conservatives who are disgusted!!!!
= :^)
Homosexuals also don’t make crotch groping passes at complete strangers on television.
Lots of differences between real life and television.
Homosexuals also don’t make crotch groping passes at complete strangers on television
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I’ve watched “Modern Family”, all the two queers on that show do is hold hands, they even adopted a little Vietnamese girl.
That’s what liberals want us to think queerdom is all about, not disgusting anal sex and other perversions.
Just wait until other “protected groups” are given housing in their clutch under Obama’s new “Diverse Neighborhood”program.
Just like the gays gentrified historically black neighborhoods and drove them out.
The Castro in San Francisco used to be a working-class Irish neighborhood.
I Googled images of John Criscitello. Wouldn't post them here.
One of the big stoppages in the digging was when they hit something they couldn’t bore through. Turned out to be a to be a metal sleeve.......from a vertical drilling attempt......that was used to collect soil samples.......for the Alaskan Way project.
I have noticed that articles about sodomites quite often have drooling descriptions of the sodomites being interviewed or discussed.
This is the neighborhood I’m living in, yes.
I like it.
Out of the way, first-wave gentrifiers!
at 48, the old queer won’t live much longer
I had seen one of those photos before, or at least one very similar to it. Now I’m worrying...
ROFL LMBO...
This guy is a total write off...
Chelsea in NYC was once a working-class Irish neighborhood as well.
“Don’t they realize that means it’s time for them to move on and gentrify a new neighborhood? I mean, there’s an order and cycle to these things.”
His order to do this must have gotten stuck in his Gaymail spam folder; so he didn’t get the message.
I’m glad you like it. How’s the new dog?
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