AP Mourns: There Goes The Gay Neighborhood
Tolerance? Diversity? Not so much…
Liberal media outlets aren’t usually sympathetic to the story of people growing upset at the changing shape of their neighborhoods, often at the arrival of new Hispanic or Asian immigrants. But AP reporter Lisa Leff reports sensitively from San Francisco that the distraught natives who dislike the invaders are gay men are upset at the arrival of—gasp—people with baby strollers:
SAN FRANCISCO—Even on a weekday in winter, the Castro district vibrates with energy, most of it male. Men holding hands, walking dogs and lounging at cafes have long been the main attraction in a neighborhood known as a gay mecca the world over.
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 men who love men may one day feel like they don’t belong.
“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.
This is an interesting sound for people who used terms like “born-again bigots” to describe those who disagree with their “sexual orientation.” But the problem, apparently, is growing acceptance: “as gays and lesbians win legal rights and greater social acceptance, community activists worry these so-called ‘gayborhoods’ are losing their relevance.”
Lisa Leff (Lisa Left?) simply relays their anxiety that the neighborhood is becoming “Disneyfied”—that it’s losing its bohemian, sex-drenched flavor. Notice the threatening language embraced by the reporter that the “wild abandon” and sexual liberation is not the dominant culture:
Don Reuter, a New York writer who is researching a book on the rise and fall of a dozen gay neighborhoods in the U.S., has observed the same trend in cities as far-flung as New Orleans, Philadelphia and Seattle. He found “Disneyfied” places boasting chain stores, restaurants catering to a diverse clientele and “cleared of any reference to sex.”
“What makes these neighborhoods gay? Not much,” concluded Reuter, who predicts that outside New York, San Francisco and a handful of other cities, neighborhoods with a significant gay presence will not survive.
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This is an interesting trend, and certainly a news story. But if the roles were reversed and gay activists were “colonizing” a formerly straight neighborhood, the AP’s tone probably wouldn’t sound like the reporters and editors were blowing their nose into a hanky with the natives.
Read the whole thing.
This story not only tears the lid off yet another area of leftie hypocrisy, but reveals the true feelings of the “gay community” toward marriage and traditional family structure in this country.
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