Full of Meaning, Mural Honors Gay Community (7,500 sf Public Mural)

Philadephia Inquirer ^ | Thu, May. 15, 2003 | Linda K. Harris

[fight_truth_decay]

COMMENTS ?

[Norse]

sick

[Hank Rearden]

"It's multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational," said Steven Huizar, interim executive director of the center.

And don't forget "uniuseless".

[GATOR NAVY]

a "gayborhood"...isn't that special.

[fight_truth_decay]

Why does a city need a public mural depicting anyone's sexual preference? *scratches my head*

[fight_truth_decay]

Gives new meaning to Philadelphia - the City of Brotherly Love.

[zonan]

Sickening.

And to think I will be leaving the midwest for Philadelphia in a week, for a summer internship. What part of the city is this in?

[Seniram US]

It is Center City a few blocks from City Hall

[ppaul]

[ppaul]

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Jesus wept.

[zerosix]

Pardon me but I only scanned the article as it was way too early for upsetting my breakfast - was this mural paid for by any public monies?

[Rummyfan]

Outrageous - just how does a mural depict the GLT community?

If I lived in Philly I would be tempted to engage in a little graffiti art.

[randog]

Golden said that in researching the project, no one was able to find another public mural in the country paying tribute to the gay community.

Perhaps because no one sees any reason to pay tribute to someone's sexual practices. If San Fran was home to the country's largest community of yo-yo enthusiasts (I'm sorry--angular momentum artists) then I'm sure they'd be painting murals that glorified the "courage" and "bravery" of yo-yo-ists. Democracy (defined as two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner) is definitely alive and well in SF.

[RonF]

On the northern end of the expansive mural, Northrup designed a composite in sepia tones of three historical photographs of civil rights marches and the gay rights movement of the 1960s.

Equivalency between discrimination on the basis of race and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is something that homosexual civil rights organizations seek to establish and that racial civil rights organizations seek to deny. To accept the equivalency, you have to believe that homosexuality is an innate/genetic characteristic and is unchangable.

[Gritty]

These people have no guts.

If they wanted to do something really controversial, they could have painted a scene of the Last Supper.

[Grampa Dave]

Since I have my own limitations to any Gay Pride BS article, I will only read 6 lines not to infest my computer or brain with some maggot disease.

Like you, I would like to know who funded this perverted monster?

[Van Jenerette]

To accept the equivalency, you have to believe that homosexuality is an innate/genetic characteristic and is unchangable.

....but if it is genetic, homosexuality should have died out along with the dinosaurs. With humans, one must reproduce heterosexually in order to avoid extinction. Hmmm.....

[Grampa Dave]

This reads like a Blairification of the "gayborhood"!

[wideawake]

It'th jutht rethethive, thilly!