Two Different Animals
Author: cAastro Boy
Date: 08-02-2012 - 14:43
Scott Schiechl Wrote:
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> Change the word GAY in many of these posts to BLACK and they could have been written in the 1960s.
That's quite a stretch. There's a HUGE difference between having a desire to be served at a lunch counter or riding at the front of a bus in the deep south as compared to having a desire to perform sex acts on a sidewalk for all the world to see, as part of making a statement of being "lberated." I'm referring to the Folsom Street Fair, as referenced in the original post. Today, it's Folsom Street. Tomorrow, it could be in your neighborhood. Do you really want that? Is there any mechanism in place to stop it?
A lot of blacks are offended when gays and even illegal aliens hold up the civil rights movement of the 1960s as a comparison to their particular "cause" for liberation and acceptance. It's not the same thing.
BTW, to keep this discussion on topic with rail content, you'll be interested to know that the Folsom Street Fair and the Up Your Alley events take place "sandwiched" between the Caltrain station at Fourth and Townsend and a BART station and two SF MUNI stations on Market Street.