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01/22/2005 Archived Entry: "Activists Want to Create Gay Neighborhood"

Posted by steve @ 07:51 PM EST [Link]

TOLERANCE BY SEGREGATION: I guess they've been watching Queer as Folk with its "Liberty Street" (it's actually filmed on Jane Street in Toronto) because gays in Spokane -- long a bastion of conservatism -- want to create a "gay district".

Even though they face little discrimination, gays stay under the radar in Spokane, said Aspen, a member of the Inland Northwest Business Alliance, an association of gay and gay-friendly businesses that is pushing the idea.

"Visibility equals freedom," Aspen said. "Invisibility we have dealt with all our life."

I'm not sure what that means. In theory, does not every person not actually fornicating on a public street hide their sexuality? I'm libertarian enough not to care if someone wants a gay ghetto but the reasoning seems a little suspect.

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