I was just thinking it would be a good Gene topic.
--- In [email protected], "Gina Ellis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Lauderdale certainly has a large and quite out gay population. (A
gay
> friend of mine has charged me with taking his ashes, mixed with
his lover's,
> to Lauderdale to scatter near Los Olas (I think it's Los Olas -
I'd better
> confirm) where they had memorable Florida vacations... tho it
looks like he
> has a good chance of outliving me and had better get someone else
lined up
> in case...[I'm getting on, but he is HIV, so it's a race to the
grave...BUT
> I'm in perfect health, and he runs marathons despite 15+ years
since his
> diagnosis...so no real odds either way.) But no matter how many
gay, there
> are faaaaar more straight, and many of them very straight old
retirees with
> rather fossilized outlook...
>
> I'd be a little leery of public toilets that popped open after a
certain
> shortish period of time. There are occasions when one gets
legitimately
> stuck to the seat for an undue length...
>
> Hey, sounds like a possible topic for Gene's chat! Alas I am away
today and
> can't participate. Tho could submit ahead of time... Nah, in a
rush to get
> out the door and it sounds like a natural for someone among his
regular
> readers to lob to him...
>
> Too bad the mayor doesn't have a good aptonym...
>
>
>
> Ellen said - I kind of wonder how he got elected in Ft.
Lauderdale. Doesn't
> seem
> to be a big hit with his constituents. I live in the gay area of
> Chicago. I feel like a minority as a heterosexual person. If
someone
> like him moved to my neighborhood without knowing the demographics
> they would be surprised. I don't see that many actual gay couples,
> but every business establishment seems to assume that everyone is
> gay. The bookstores, libraries, live theatres, clothing stores,
> restaurants, you name it. Every free newspaper is the alternative
> something or other. I've never been anywhere where homosexuality
was
> such a front-and-center topic. I believe Dupont Circle is the gay
> area of DC, but it's NOTHING compared to boystown in Chicago. Gays
> are much more under the radar in Dupont Circle, except for maybe a
> bookstore here and there.
>
> --- In [email protected], Eleanor Keyser
> <eleanorkeyser@> wrote:
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/33pxvc
> >
>
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