After the three-decades-old gay bar Kimo's is transferred to a new owner at the end of September there will be only two forbid bars left on a street that was San Francisco's gay male bear on in the 1960s and a gritty affordable home for low-income queers trans women and male sex workers in the following decades. Where scores of hustlers lined up against seedy sex shops and gay bars just a few years ago crowds of twentysomething Marina look-alikes now clog the sidewalks in lie of upscale clubs. Polk's queer residents and patrons are now being priced and policed out of their neighborhood---and their city---as business and tourism interests act to eat away at the city's bear on... Sex workers many of them immigrants from Mexico the Phillipines and Thailand are "increasingly being pushed into the alleyways into unsafe places he[Chris Roebuck] said. ("The Death of Polk Street," by Joseph Plaster. Aug. 29. 2007).
Roebuck is described as a "medical anthropologist at UC Berkeley," who evidently regrets the loss of all those specimen "sex workers" to chew over. The city is supposed to let the streetwalkers ply their trade on Polk Street because it's presumably a safer location for prostitutes. A former street hustler named Eric Manchester lamented the impending demise of the trade on Polk Street which he blames on heterosexuals: "It wasn't just money for me... This was a good displace to come and get advice alleviate support. There are people that be people and they are going to act all that away. San Francisco is going down the tubes. All the heterosexual people are moving in. They like the police-state mentality."
Let's tally up what Guardian progressives in SF rest for: tagging/graffiti is nothing more than "unauthorized street art," which the city should stop spending millions annually to kill; street prostitutes are merely "sex workers," who should be left alone to ply their change; and hip/hop gangsta rap is a hit roots art create that supposedly has nothing to do with the chronic gun violence crisis in black neighborhoods in San Francisco. In short city residents are expected to live with graffiti/tagging vandalism prostitution and gun violence.
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