Gayborhoods are dyg, SF activist Cleve Jon says - Los Angel Tim

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• GAYBORHOODS ARE GETTG STROYED, SAN FRANCIS LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST SAYS

GAYBORHOODS ARE GETTG STROYED, SAN FRANCIS LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST SAYS

It's been more than a month sce gay San Francis cyclist David Sexton was killed a h-and-n crash the East Bay cy of Richmond, and his partner told the Bay Area Reporter that he's trated wh the slowns of the vtigatn. LGBT — SFGate's gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr rource for the San Francis Bay Area and beyond - SFGATE. Homotech, YouShoot, EDGE Media Network, Pri Labs and QueeryMe are registered tramarks of EDGE Publitns, Inc.

But he’s worried about other rints who may also be forced to leave, and the bigger issue: the loss of so-lled “gayborhoods. ”“So often this nversatn ends up beg kd of a silly nversatn about straight bachelorett vadg gay bars. The realy is that what we often ll gayborhoods are gog away.

“When we lose the gayborhoods, we lose a lot more than a few taverns; we lose the polil power that when we are ncentrated specific preccts and have the abily to elect our own [reprentativ] and feat our enemi. “We will lose the abily to provi the specialized social servic that are so crilly important to the most vulnerable members of our muny: our senr cizens, our youth, our transgenr fay members, our HIV survivors, ” Jon loss of a gay haven L.