Death Of A Gay Ghetto 2

Vancouver's Dirty Gay Secret And Why No One's Talking 

The Big Picture And The Future of Gay YVR

A reader continues with his view of YVR......

YVR touts itself as a World Class City.  Locals point to annual surveys in The Economist claiming that YVR is the Best Place In The World To Live. It isn’t.  It’s a small city on the coast with a small town mentality. Historically, it has a reputation for poor law enforcement, corruption and drug dealing. 

The influx of Asian immigrants – mainly Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese – doesn’t make it an international city. It encourages ethnic cliques.  The influx of Asians inflated the real estate market, triggered consumer inflation and resentment.  Higher prices, urban decay and a boring city, force people who can no longer afford downtown prices, to move further away.  A dirty secret is the number of Vancouverites looking to move out of the city to other countries. 

The gay ghetto sits in the middle of a physically decaying downtown. The majority of gay guys are renters.  They don’t have a high earning capacity.  Many are in low grade employment, holding part time jobs, or are hustling and dealing.  As inflation kicks in, these gay renters cannot survive downtown and must move into East Vancouver (itself not a thrilling area). 

In other words, YVR’s gay ghetto is bleeding off its population.  That creates a vicious cycle that perpetuates the urban decay.  There’s no earning capacity to support the local gay economy.  The homeless and the druggies move in. The neighbourhood spirals further.  The influx of new faces into the Gay Ghetto are naïve pretty boys from little towns in Alberta looking to move to “the big city”.  They get sucked into “the lifestyle”.  Many end up broke, drug-fucked hustlers and dealers. 

Every gay man in YVR knows that the gay ghetto is broken and systemically corrupt. The vicious, petty political feuds would be laughable were it not coupled with embezzlement of funds and a lack of accountability.  How a gay ghetto of 2 dying blocks can spawn a culture of chronic financial rip-offs can only be explained against the larger picture of poor law enforcement, corruption and drug dealing. 

And the culture of gay censorship and code of silence?  It’s collusion by a gay cartel.  Again, it’s laughable……how can you censor a downward spiral that’s already common knowledge? Their answer is to perpetuate a propaganda of denial while hiding behind accusations of homophobia. 

As mentioned in my earlier post, I have over 25 years experience in gay business in YVR.  I have no axe to grind other than to refuse to shut up in the face of institutionalized deceit, decay and drug dealing.  As far as I’m concerned, YVR’s gay ghetto is finished.  Pack up and get the fuck out.  Leave while you’re still alive. 

Thank you for allowing me to express my views on your blog.

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