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. . .
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Sorry, I meant “new job.”
Sense scotus says your one of us, why do you need your own neighborhood? Oh, you wanted Jim Crow? Separate but equal? Hypocrites!
You didn’t offend me at all. I was just trying to understand exactly what you meant. No problem.
I don’t want to see people mistreated, but when communities trend away from homosexuals, I’m all for it.
Imagine the reverse. Your communities establishments all of a sudden go homosexual.
Yikes, all your old haunts suddenly places you never want to go again.
The same thing is happening in Ballard.
OOPS Bad idea
Okay never mind ROFL
NIMBY trumps diversity.
“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.”
Sounds like the author was as queer as a 3 dollar bill. He was in love with “the artist.” because he could make his “thing” look like a pretzel.
LOL #LGBT #LOVEWINS # OBAMASAMERICA
John Criscitello
Exactly so. It has been this way for a long, long time.
Oh, Chornaya
(Crimea River)
But not to worry Homos...
0bama’s new HUD rules etc. will soon fill your neighborhood with Black Panthers, La Razas and Welfare Moms.
It’s very tough to let go.
I left Joplin, Missouri in 1969. Forty-six years later I still feel like I left a few months ago, and I miss it very much.
All your old haunts, that period in your life, it hangs there in limbo.
The best you can do is develop new friends and replace it as best you can.
I live in Glendale, California now. I was born here and spent my whole adult life here. It has changed so much, I should leave. I doubt I ever will.
Neighborhoods constantly change, they don't stay fixed to the same demographics for long. This article points out that gays have been leaving San Francisco in droves, many have been displaced by incoming heterosexual straight tech couples (and they have kids). Yet a bunch of people on FR keep spreading the false message that SF is all gay. Far from it, as the tiny percentage is shrinking. As you say, the Castro used to be an Irish neighborhood. Same for other districts, like the Mission that used to be all white Irish/German/Italian until recently when hispanics came in. Those same hispanics are now complaining because white tech workers are taking over the "historically" hispanic Mission District ("historically" for a few decades). The white tech workers (including asian tech workers) are cleaning up the city and displacing the trash.
Yep. Except its the old Norwegian/Icelandic fishing families that are being driven out too.
“We came here to get away from you.”
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Where’s the tolerance and diversity?
The hate crimes aren't being committed by Amazon tech workers.
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