On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:35:13 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>> I had another interesting encounter last night (8/7/2) at the Detour. I
>> was there with another Latino friend, 'Hector'. Again, Hector and I were
>> playing pool. The all-white clientelle were very rude to us as we
>> attempted to play pool.
>
> You should come play pool at Saints, 109th & Amsterdam, in Manhattan,
> where all colors, genders, preferences, and classes mix freely.
>
> Doug
--
The Castro for more than a few yrs. now has been so full of racist, dumb, white boys that epitomize the stereotypes of gay men as vain, selfish, bitchy numnutz. A few yrs. back at one of the most popular bars, trax, routinely black and latino men were denied entry that there was a sustained struggle in the community. And, yup, lotsa good data there on the gallup webpg...now if i could only remember the name of that band of a member of the magnetic fields i just read a review of...flame? orchestral, emo kinda stuff...
-- Michael Pugliese