GOODY TWO SHOES: There Goes The Neighborhood!
San Francisco's Castro Street – the city’s "gay Mecca" for more than 30 years - is in danger of being overrun by undesirables: heteros and breeders, who are attracted by the neighborhood’s charming homes, convenient mass transit and safe streets. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
[S]ome gay and lesbian residents of the Castro are worried that the culture and history of their world-famous neighborhood could be lost in the process, and they have started a campaign to preserve its character. …
Heterosexuals "are welcome as long as they understand this is our community," said Adam Light, a leader in the Castro Coalition, a group formed eight months ago to address the shifts in the neighborhood in recent years.
The Castro's gay and lesbian residents need to be actively involved in neighborhood planning if they want to see the area maintain its identity, said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, chair of the School of Public Affairs and Urban Planning at UCLA.
"It's very difficult to stop change," she said. "But you can try to direct it in ways that you like as opposed to ways that you hate." …
Imagine the outrage that would have ensued if someone had said "Blacks are welcome as long as they understand this is our community." But the gay community has shown repeatedly itself to be prejudiced and intolerant.
By the way, before gays took over Eureka Valley - the historic name for the neighborhood – it was home to Irish and German families.
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March 5, 2007
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