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DE GHETTO

When we moved to Palm Springs, we spent some time looking for the gay neighborhood.

We never found it.

Gays are everywhere in this city. So, of course are straights.

It is totally mixed.

We had lived in the South End of Boston where gays owned a majority of the properties and businesses. It wasn't the Castro but it was ours.

Before we lived there, we lived on Beacon Hill which was hippy-gay and then became yuppie-straight.

Now, we hear that the South End is much more hetero, many families, and that the gay population is dispersing throughout the city.

The ghetto is no more.

And that is a good thing I think.

No one puts us there any longer and we do now crouch in the corner for herd/pack-strength.

This article tells us that it is happening everywhere.

Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé

The Castro is in a bit of shock we hear.

They don't want to lose what they have.

For a lot of older gay men, the idea of the ghetto is so comforting that they do not want to leave it and this has been the case in the Castro for a long time.

It shows.

The ingrown culture and the often trashy business scene has not been all that great a reflection of gay life.

I don't want to start any arguments but I would never have, nor now would, want to live there.

The South End was a quiet neighborhood and what commercial and cultural ventures were there were equal opportunity.

Boston's gay scene was always integrated with the city's culture and politics.

End of an era.

And, as I said, a good thing.

Labels: gay life