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Gentrification of a gay enclave
presstelegram.com ^ | 03/09/07 | Lisa Leff

Posted on 03/10/2007 3:59:24 PM PST by Ellesu

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To: Hoodlum91

I think it was the gay crowd in San Francisco that invented the derogatory, derisive term "breeders" for heterosexuals -- always said with a sneer.


21 posted on 03/10/2007 4:36:20 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: ReignOfError
You nailed it. Last year, I found huge studio space I could afford on the near-downtown southside of Indianapolis, in a (barely) converted restaurant by Garfield Park--I have a hand-dryer in my bathroom, if that gives you an idea. Since I'm also a commercial artist, I work in-studio all day and love the place. Sure, the neighborhood is rundown and definitely a chancy place to walk around at night but lately I've been noticing signs of gentrification going on: new cars in grocery store parking lots, fewer pickup trucks on blocks in the driveways, the appearance of coffee shops where seedy dive taverns once stood. My landlord's been making noises about raising the rent. I've been making noises about moving out if he does.

I don't see any of this as ominous, just expensive.
22 posted on 03/10/2007 4:36:47 PM PST by Rembrandt_fan
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To: LibKill
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23 posted on 03/10/2007 4:40:16 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: Ellesu

You get AIDS, you reduce the surplus Gay population you free up realestate.

AIDS acts as a realestate price reducer as the population kills its self off.


24 posted on 03/10/2007 4:40:54 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P.)
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To: Ellesu

You get AIDS, you reduce the surplus Gay population you free up realestate.

AIDS acts as a realestate price reducer as the population kills its self off.


25 posted on 03/10/2007 4:40:55 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P.)
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To: Ellesu

"When I see a stroller now, I see it as someone who evicted a person with AIDS, right or wrong," said Basinger, president of the Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transexual Democratic Club.

So would he be just as offended by black people moving into a white neighborhood? Or by Mexicans moving into a black area?


26 posted on 03/10/2007 4:41:28 PM PST by Right2BareArms
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To: ErnBatavia
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27 posted on 03/10/2007 4:41:39 PM PST by LibKill (RudycRAT is lying his way to power. Look at his record. He's 100% DemocRAT.)
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To: Eepsy
?"I thought Gerbil Village was in Lakewood.

German Village. Just south downtown Columbus.

28 posted on 03/10/2007 4:45:26 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

neighborhoods with a significant gay presence will not survive.


Any group that prefers sodomy over procreation will not survive. It's how it should be.


29 posted on 03/10/2007 4:59:36 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Duncan Hunter: pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-border control, pro-family)
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To: atomicpossum

Yeah, the jukes just write themselves, don't they? It's like when the first retired flag officer to come out of the closet was a rear admiral.


30 posted on 03/10/2007 5:01:08 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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To: buccaneer81

I believe the area has a Gay Street which is a gay hang-out. No?


31 posted on 03/10/2007 5:05:00 PM PST by sine_nomine (The United States...shall protect each of them against invasion. Article IV, 4. US Constition)
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To: Right2BareArms

There was an interesting gentrification fight in the Atlanta neighborhood of Kirkwood a couple of years back. A local minister organized a protest against "them" (gays) "taking over" "our" (blacks) neighborhood. The counter-protest was far larger than the original protest; turns out the elderly black folk in the neighborhood would rather live down the street from a homosexual couple than a crack house.


32 posted on 03/10/2007 5:07:44 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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To: sine_nomine
I believe the area has a Gay Street which is a gay hang-out. No?

Gay Street is downtown and has a variety of nightclubs, some of which may cater to the gay crowd. But it's not really known as an area of gay life.

33 posted on 03/10/2007 5:08:06 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: ReignOfError

Petworth and U Street in D.C., in addition to the longtime gay enclave Dupont Circle.

Street crime is high in U Street because the gentrification has swung all the way over to trendy college kids and there's a lot of cash walking around on weekends. Petworth is a different story. The first time I visited my friend there after she and her fiance bought a house, I wanted to walk and talk around the neighborhood. She said it wasn't a great idea and I should carry her stickball bat because there was a pit bull loose that day. Yikes. But that was five years ago and it's better now, though still pretty rough.

I was looking to buy a house last summer and learned a lot about how neighborhoods move up and down. There really are worse things than having gays (and, less specifically, artists) terraform a block and move up property values, or at least hipness and desirability. I would have bought in one of those neighborhoods but it was too far from my job.


34 posted on 03/10/2007 5:34:10 PM PST by Generic_Login_1787
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To: Ellesu
Honolulu's Kuhio district stands vacant after its gay bars were dispersed in the late 1980s.

Funny, I can't find anyone who remembers the pogroms that "dispersed" gay bars in the 1980's ...

35 posted on 03/10/2007 5:46:29 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Ellesu

There goes the neighborhood ;-)


36 posted on 03/10/2007 5:51:13 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (27 B stroke 6 required)
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To: ErnBatavia

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38 posted on 03/10/2007 6:07:44 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: ErnBatavia

Yikes! I was slowly scrolling down the page reading and suddenly "Boom!". I ran into her face.


39 posted on 03/10/2007 6:09:17 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Ellesu

Drama queens.


40 posted on 03/10/2007 6:10:33 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (I'm holding out hope that at least the DEMOCRATS might accidentally nominate a conservative.)
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