Death of a Gay Ghetto 14
How Vancouver's Town Planners Will Make the Gay Ghetto All New and Shiny.......And We Do Mean Shiny............
The town planners have released a draft of the Community Development Plan for Vancouver's West End, which includes the run down gay area of Davie Street. See the report by Global News dated 7 November 2013, entitled Vancouver's West End to get makeover: more housing, more open-air plazas.
The rainbow-painted pedestrian crossing at the notorious intersection of Davie and Bute - previously well known as a meth-dealing epicentre - is to be enhanced by adding an overhead installation.........which in the official illustration above, appears to be a.............shiny disco ball...!!!!
BBBWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......!!!!
Seriously, we're not making this shit up.
Other than some open air plazas and taller buildings on the periphery of the West End; plus the addition of
We suspect that despite the PC noises, the Community Development Plan isn't about preserving the Gay Village, but rather about cramming more people into the locality. We'd predicted this years ago, pointing out that the low-grade gay retail and fast food franchises in Vancouver's Fagland, (to which one can now add druggies and the urinating homeless) were symptoms of an economically crippled demographic which in the long term, was unsustainable. The West End in general, also has a large elderly and transient student population who do not have economic power.
The urban creep westwards from Yaletown (large chunks of which were developed by a property giant originating from Asia in Very Rich Megacity) and southwards from Coal Harbour is unstoppable. We're always fascinated to hear the screeching of the local fags that "the Village" needs to be "preserved", or that "it has historical value" or that the gay identity "is intrinsic to the West End". Fair enough. We're sure their hearts are in the right place. But it's their words that give them away. It's always about preserving the status quo - hardly ever does one hear anything about "expansion", "revitalization", "regeneration", "reinvention". And that's not surprising. Elsewhere in this series, we've commented on the pathetic local gay culture in Vancouver of corruption, drug dealing, conflicts of interest, bad mouthing and turf protectionism. A Fourth World, Banana Republic mentality prevails. It's not gonna change anytime soon.
If it's an overhead installation that they want at the intersection of Davie and Bute, we think it should be a pinata that would crack open every few minutes and scatter meth tablets on the delighted fags below.
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Dude, your shit is bang f*cking on! Sadly Vancouver is not a gay travel destination, unless you are into the mountains and shit but I wouldn't even bother swimming in this murky water in the summer. As for the club scene....DEAD! And no disco ball is going to save that ghetto. It's embarrassing!
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