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 Post subject: Philly renames Midtown Village "gayborhood"
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First they rename the TLA "The Fillmore Philly" or some retarded thing.

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Not content to let the city's gay tourists find the Gayborhood just by looking for the transvestite prostitutes and drug dealers, our fair city has finally officially designated the Gayborhood the, uh, Gayborhood.

Well, there are now rainbow flags on the street signs from 11th to Broad and Chestnut to Pine. (Aw, I guess I miss living in the Gayborhood by a block or so.) Says Tami Sortman of the Philadelphia gay tourism caucus: "If we're welcoming gays and lesbians, then we need to show them where the gayborhood is."

Fair enough. Strike a blow for civil rights -- if, uh, rainbow flags on the street signs in an area where there are already 2.2 million rainbow flags can be considered such -- and make some sweet cash at the same time? Now that's a good idea.

Not that everyone is all that excited. NBC 10 spoke with area resident Kathleen Vaughan, who worries the official Gayborhood designation will, uh... I dunno.

“It’s a mixed group of people,” [Kathleen] Vaughan said. “The Parker Hotel used to be a place for mentally ill.”

Despite the opposition, Philadelphia joins San Francisco, Chicago, Montreal and Toronto, which all have gay-friendly districts.

Yes, despite the opposition of Kathleen Vaughan, the Gayborhood remains popular in large liberal cities. Anyway, the mentally ill can live in the Mentally Illborhood. Or call it Midtown Village. Actually, that's much worse than any other name.
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Around here, Boystown has large rainbow colored phallic pillars on most of the corners which let you know where you are.

The straight families in the area call the neighborhood "Lakeview".
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Oh, it's not even that I mind so much, but I feel like this official proclamation is just an empty grab for tourism. I mean, it's the easiest neighborhood to find in the city and I can't imagine anyone visiting would have trouble finding it.

thus, the signage is entirely for closeted suburban dads.

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Do gay people want to be marginalized? They can't want this?

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Gay people? How exciting!
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if you buy real estate in the gayborhood, that makes you a homowner lol
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I prefer The Lavender Ghetto

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Eh, at least it'll keep the blacks out.
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if you buy real estate in the gayborhood, that makes you a homowner lol


at what point did your and FT's DNA get mixed up?

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I prefer The Lavender Ghetto


a.k.a. "The Gheytto"

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OPA! Wrote:
Eh, at least it'll keep the blacks out.


there are pleanty of sassy gay black men.

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OPA! Wrote:
Eh, at least it'll keep the blacks out.


there are pleanty of sassy gay black men.


I was referring to the straight blacks.
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Around here, Boystown has large rainbow colored phallic pillars on most of the corners which let you know where you are.

The straight families in the area call the neighborhood "Lakeview".


Wow, the original Boystown looks like a college campus with a Japanese internment farm connected to it.

Red, Did you know there is a Nu-metal band with the same name as your screen name.

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Eh, at least it'll keep the blacks out.


nice. lemme search for homes.
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the gayborhood has a daily rate cheap hotel that lots of crack heads live in, so there is that.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
if you buy real estate in the gayborhood, that makes you a homowner lol


at what point did your and FT's DNA get mixed up?


That's sorta what I was wondering too but Haq's been a little funnier.

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Promethium Wrote:
red Wrote:
Around here, Boystown has large rainbow colored phallic pillars on most of the corners which let you know where you are.

The straight families in the area call the neighborhood "Lakeview".


Wow, the original Boystown looks like a college campus with a Japanese internment farm connected to it.

Red, Did you know there is a Nu-metal band with the same name as your screen name.

That's my band! I play the triangle.
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shiv Wrote:
Yail Bloor Wrote:
at what point did your and FT's DNA get mixed up?
That's sorta what I was wondering too but Haq's been a little funnier.


Yeah, sorry about that. Although I don't think it's any worse than officially designating a "gayborhood."
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shiv Wrote:
Yail Bloor Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
if you buy real estate in the gayborhood, that makes you a homowner lol


at what point did your and FT's DNA get mixed up?


That's sorta what I was wondering too but Haq's been a little funnier.


You want funny? Go watch Carrot Top.

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He's performing at the Parker Hotel...
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All this Gayborhood nonsense is just persecuting the religious freedom of these old bitches.
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FT Wrote:
shiv Wrote:
Yail Bloor Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
if you buy real estate in the gayborhood, that makes you a homowner lol


at what point did your and FT's DNA get mixed up?


That's sorta what I was wondering too but Haq's been a little funnier.


You want funny? Go watch Carrot Top.


At least he has props.

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jewels santana Wrote:
OPA! Wrote:
Eh, at least it'll keep the blacks out.


there are pleanty of sassy gay black men.


But few quite as sassy as Meshach Taylor.

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