Gay Village

So I just read a news article about a plan to build a fenced gay village somewhere in the Netherlands:
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/3805249/plan-tilburgse-homowijk.html
Translated page: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Fbinnenland%2F3805249%2Fplan-tilburgse-homowijk.html&edit-text=&act=url

Now I wonder, how do you guys feel about this? To me it sounds like they are trying to "round up" all the non-straight people in the Netherlands and try to get them in one place, not to mention it's quite far away from big cities as Rotterdam or Amsterdam (for us Dutchies that is - we don't like to travel :P ) Also, this is no solution to the problem. The government should promote inclusion of gay people, not seperate all LGBT-people from the rest of the community.

If someone in Orange County wanted to build an enclosed community with kick ass housing, shopping, parks, schools, and entertainment I'd move there. Does it solve the issue we face in general? No. Would it be awesome to live in such a community? Potentially yes, unless it turned into a grindr wonderland in which case count me out.

And, for whatever reason, I can't get Daffyd Thomas out of my head, reading about this. xD

First of all I loved streaming Little Brittin! lol so funny. second, if they dont feel safe in their own neighborhood imagine all the people that might harrass them for relocating. It kinda sounds like a German Interment camp...

It is meant to be a 'safe' haven for LBGT members or society... sounds like it is sticking a huge bullseye on them to be targeted.

I am sure the conception and implementation is well intentioned but I have to think that this is not the way society needs to address the concerns.

I would find it much more appropriate that anyone arrested (charged or otherwise) for homophobic incidents is forced to move to a specially build village so they can be appropriately labelled as homophbes!

Either way any village specifically for one type of society is, wrong.

(But just think how fab that village will be, and the bars, oh the bars!)

if it is meant to be a vacation area and amazingly well done, than sure.


if it is meant to require lgbt people to move to it, that can so easily turn into a target or quarantining place...

It really depends on the intention behind the idea. If they meant it as a gay-friendly resort-type village, I could be behind the concept. But it's really looking like a way to segregate and quarantine the gay population in that area, which is no good; simply a more gentrified version of a ghetto by a different name. The whole thing just gives me weird feelings.

Uhm, Genosha anyone?

(I'm not the only comic book geek here, am I? Nevermind, carry on.) :whistle:

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Uhm, Genosha anyone?

(I'm not the only comic book geek here, am I? Nevermind, carry on.) :whistle:

No, no you're not. :P

OOOOOO!O I call Magneto!!

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Uhm, Genosha anyone?

(I'm not the only comic book geek here, am I? Nevermind, carry on.) :whistle:

Yeah, I don't think that marginalizing and insulating on group from another is the best way of gaining acceptance in mainstream society. There was an interesting article in the Eastsider LA about our other major "gay ghetto," Silverlake. Which is technically North of Downtown and west of the LA river but still isn't considered the "West Side" though it's really not that far from the Pink Vatican we know as West Hollywood. Anyway the article was about how this always very artsy, eclectic community at one time had 7 LGBT bars and clubs but over the years that number dwindled to 2 and now it's just one.

The funny thing is that the LGBT population in that area had grown, not shrunk and they were not going to WeHo to get their club/drink on. The LGBT community was so gentrified that they'd begun frequenting regular "straight" establishments with no resistance from the general community because they'd gained so much acceptance. I've heard from friends of mine in other cities a similar decline is happening where more and more LGBT individuals are mainstreaming and their "gay ghettos" declining.

I suppose it's a good thing, but still kinda sad at the same time. We gain acceptance but seem to lose something special along the way. I feel like Captain Janeway in "Death Wish" when Q offers to send her home if she rules in the Continuum's favor and she echoes Q's question to her saying softly to herself: "that's what I wanted."

And yes, I too get the Genosha reference. ;)

I love visiting gayborhoods in every major city I visit, but I wouldn't want to live in one.