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NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
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She poted out that she is gay and would have “no First Amendment problems” if the stor were discreet. How aggrsively to regulate New York Cy’s sex shops has been a sensive matter for elected officials, cludg the gay policians who reprent Chelsea.
They are ught between gay rints who see the shops as a qualy-of-life issue and want them shut and gay patrons, who say a crackdown would be a return to the days when the police raid their bars and social clubs to timidate and huiate gay men. The uncilman reprentg Chelsea, Corey Johnson, who is gay and a strong advote for gay rights, has avoid takg a public stand on the issue.
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