""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. "
What a bigot. I'll hold my breath to see when the calls for his resignation start. *crickets*
This is "ominous"?
I don't exactly know what to make of this, but I find the trend fascinating. It's like they're finally getting what they wanted, which is to be considered normal. The more normal they get, the more they find that they fear not being different.
president of the Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transexual Democratic Club.
---"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.---
Does he mean like the gays "evicted" the working class folks that used to live there? I don't think we need any moralizing from this piece of work.
they don't like people in their tribe - they do want to pass laws against our tribe to benefit them.
Interesting world we have today.
Hah! He should come to Columbus and stroll around Gerbil Village.
That's the gentrification pattern repeated time and again -- gay men move in to run-down neighborhoods first, because a household of nothing but young men is less afraid of being mugged, and a household without kids isn't deterred by bad schools. Then come the artists (considerable overlap with the gay men), who need a lot of space and don't have a lot of money.
Once you have a neighborhood full of artists, you have all the ingredients of a trendy spot. So the bars and funky little shops move in. Before long, the neighborhood becomes a magnet for straight singles and young couples. As property values go up, families and chain stores start to take an interest. After a while, the artists and funky little shops either ride the rising tide or can't afford the rent any more, and move on to start the process over.
It's been most pronounced in NYC, where that pattern was followed in Greenwich (and later the East) Village, SoHo, Chelsea, TriBeCa, and is in progress in the meat-packing district and starting in Alphabet City. In Atlanta, I've seen it in Virginia-Highlands, Poncey-Highlands, Grant Park, Inman Park, and most recently Cabbagetown and Kirkwood. I'm sure other cities have similar stories, but I don't know them.
"Yet where visitors see a living monument to gay pride, longtime community leader Brian Basinger sees a cultural enclave at risk of becoming a faded museum piece - or worse, a place where gay men may one day feel like they don't belong."
Probably a bit like the regular San Franciscan of yore when the gays and kooks took over the neighborhood and the city.
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.
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.
"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?
Funny, I can't find anyone who remembers the pogroms that "dispersed" gay bars in the 1980's ...
There goes the neighborhood ;-)
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Drama queens.
Homos....A minority? Isn't that special. Barf.
Well, the homosexuals have gotten their wish; social mores have eroded to the point where MTV regularly trundles out gay people as fashionable. Being gay is not the scandal it once was. And do you know what? Homosexuality is probably not nearly as erotic, either. No taboo, no trangression, no eroticism.
AND now that they're no longer some alient "other", they don't have half the cohesion they once did.
So now they're overflowing with sex (oh, and, uh...DISEASE), but no eroticism, no kids, and NO COMMUNITY.
Pyrrhic victory if there every was one...hahahah! Nice going, "gays"...!