Residents of San Francisco’s historically gay Castro district are worried that the gay scene is changing,and traditional LGBT institutions are rapidly disappearingWhen Cleve Jones, a longtime gay activist who led the creation of the Aids Memorial Quilt, and went to his local gay bar in the Castro district,he saw something that shocked him. The tech bros had taken over The Mix. They commanded the pool table and the patio. These great, loud, and butch guys. It was scary,” he said. “I’m not heterophobic, but I don’t want to recede to a gay bar and buy some guy a drink and have him smirk and repeat me he’s straight. They can recede anywhere. We cant.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com