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From TFA, it seems like it's hard for gays to understand how straights think about hosing and for straights to understand how gays think about housing. I someho

From TFA, it seems like it's hard for gays to understand how straights think about hosing and for straights to understand how gays think about housing. I somehow doubt that the type of sex you enjoy is so influential in the type of housing development you prefer.

epistasis 5y ago
The association is more San Francisco and gay people, not housing thoughts and gay people. SF has long been a haven for LGBTQ people that are threatened and unwelcome where they grew up. Can't be yourself without death threats, beatings, or general ostracization in your home town? Move to SF and find your community. And if you're family has rejected you, find yourself new family in SF. Of course, when SF has decided that only the wealthiest should be let in, that changes things. As for Preston, he is a bully, ignorant, and only sometimes has progressive positions, but always wraps himself in the flag of supposedly progressive language. SF would be far better off with somebody more welcoming, but he's so good at woke-washing the desires of wealthy residents of SF that I don't think he'll lose his seat.
spoonjim 5y ago
I think it’s that San Francisco has no substitute for gays the way that other cities have for straights (although an analogue could be made for “techies.”) If you live as a closeted gay man in Kansas, San Francisco occupies the mindspace of a holy land, but the prices in the city create a barrier like the Vatican charging Catholics $10,000 for a ticket to St. Peter’s Basilica would.
jayd16 5y ago
I believe it, although only by correlation, of course. Often gay couples can have increased incomes from two male wage earners and a lower percentage of couples with kids.
Animats 5y ago
There's a book on this, "There Goes the Gayborhood". There's also a New York Times article with the same title. The New York Times had an article "Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé.” back in 2007.[1] It's not just SF. It's Greenwich Village, West Hollywood, Boystown in Chicago... Time moves on, and with it, so do subcultures. Hippies and punks have faded away or merged into the mainstream. Now it's the turn of gay culture. Next, Chinatowns, which are stuck in the past of a China that no longer exists. There are modern Chinatowns, such as Cupertino, much more integrated into both mainstream America and mainstream China. [1] https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20071030/News/605238889/SH/ https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20071030/News/60523...

epistasis 5y ago

The association is more San Francisco and gay people, not housing thoughts and gay people. SF has long been a haven for LGBTQ people that are threatened and unwelcome where they grew up. Can't be yourself without death threats, beatings, or general ostracization in your home town? Move to SF and find your community. And if you're family has rejected you, find yourself new family in SF. Of course, when SF has decided that only the wealthiest should be let in, that changes things. As for Preston, he is a bully, ignorant, and only sometimes has progressive positions, but always wraps himself in the flag of supposedly progressive language. SF would be far better off with somebody more welcoming, but he's so good at woke-washing the desires of wealthy residents of SF that I don't think he'll lose his seat.

spoonjim 5y ago

I think it’s that San Francisco has no substitute for gays the way that other cities have for straights (although an analogue could be made for “techies.”) If you live as a closeted gay man in Kansas, San Francisco occupies the mindspace of a holy land, but the prices in the city create a barrier like the Vatican charging Catholics $10,000 for a ticket to St. Peter’s Basilica would.

jayd16 5y ago

I believe it, although only by correlation, of course. Often gay couples can have increased incomes from two male wage earners and a lower percentage of couples with kids.

Animats 5y ago

There's a book on this, "There Goes the Gayborhood". There's also a New York Times article with the same title. The New York Times had an article "Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé.” back in 2007.[1] It's not just SF. It's Greenwich Village, West Hollywood, Boystown in Chicago... Time moves on, and with it, so do subcultures. Hippies and punks have faded away or merged into the mainstream. Now it's the turn of gay culture. Next, Chinatowns, which are stuck in the past of a China that no longer exists. There are modern Chinatowns, such as Cupertino, much more integrated into both mainstream America and mainstream China. [1] https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20071030/News/605238889/SH/ https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20071030/News/60523...