"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?
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.