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April 26, 2005
Toilet sex
I was really hoping the days of tea-room sex raids were over, but apparently I was wrong. The Philadelphia Police, our District Atorney’s office and crews from four local news affilaites descended on a traditionally “cruisy” department store bathroom last week and the results were 1predictably appalling. All four local news programs splashed mug shots of the twelve men arrested on both their early and late night editions. Oy.
If this were a sincere expression of the City government’s feelings about gay sex, I would disagree with it but somehow accept that it was about some legal issue or other and I’d find a way to deal with it. But it’s NOT. It’s about making a splash in the press because our DA is up for re-election this year. In the past this kind of thing only happened here when the State DA was stumping. Apparently, long-time City DA Lynne Abrahams (who, by the way, is quite obviously a lesbian) must have some actual competition in the upcoming election because she’s stooped much lower than she was previously willing just to get some votes. I mean, why else is sex in a Strawbridge’s bathroom suddenly so fucking important? Well?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, local gay bar-owner and slumlord Mel Heifetz, described in the press this week as a “gay advocate,” expressed his disgust towards the arrested men with this gem: “It’s also very much in bad taste. It certainly doesn't have to be with all the freedoms that gay people have today.” Thanks for the advocacy, Mel! Sorry they offended your sense of good taste. No, it doesn’t “have to be” but did it ever occur to you that they might just like it??
Worst of all, though, are the reactions I’ve seen in local chat rooms. They range from the usual jokes, which are fine, to characterizations as brutal as anything you might hear from the religious right. It’s very sad to me how utterly conservative gay youth have become. ”Pathetic, ugly old trolls“ who have to use a public bathroom to find sex. The idea of sexual diversity is completely foreign to them. How the hell did that happen? I remember when gay people weren’t just on the cutting edge of style and sexuality, they were the cutting edge. Not any more. All these guys seem to want out of life is the sappy, sickening idea of romance and eternal love sold to them by television. They think anyone who wants something different is either sick or crazy. Most of these guys are glad a dozen gay men got arrested for having sex! They sound like their parents. How sad is that?
And they call me a “hater.”
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