the young people's professor

DATS right keep those homos off the street at night....
Wait a minute was this meant to get support for them to walk freely. Oops. My bad. LOL

Really that public domain not a gated community so that in itself is not fair. What next no one on 42 nd pass 3 am.

NYC is the city that never sleeps not "the city that goes to bed at 1am". This is wrong no matter your preference.

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You know I've never been there before, but if I can do something to help in the efforts, so I can visit the street that I hear so much about, I'm willing!

I'm sure that F.I.E.R.C.E. will make it's point and get what they want...

let me know what I can do to help.

i wish i could come tonight... that is a crazy proposal!

i hope the community coordinators can rally up the kids to fight for their rights!

thanks for posting this!

Another example of gentrification ruining a good neighborhood. Truth be told, the Village has grown increasingly less gay since the onset of AIDS (and the deaths that made apartments available). It is now just another overpriced, over developed yuppie residential community...like almost everywhere else in this city. And they have no use for homos.

Particularly young homos of color. Someone should remind these folks that streets are public space, that they chose to purchase overpriced real estate in a historic area that has been a magnet for nonconformists for hundreds of years (not just since the 1960s), and that it would be better for them to work out some sort of deal with the young people than just try to drive them away by fiat. They don't want to experience a Clichy-sous-Bois (Paris really burning), now do they? :-0

Good luck with this, Frank (and FIERCE)! Some of my fondest moments are from taking in life on that strip and the surrounding streets (Hudson, Perry, Charles, Bleecker, W 4th, W 11th, Greenwich, etc.).

Once upon a time you could go down and park at the river, pop the trunk and drink an listen to music, then that was taken away.Then they closed every club we had down there.Then ALICE started patrolling and said you couldn't loiter. Now no walking! When will it end!GOOD LUCK we here in DC support you.

People need a place to connect to each other - especially (ESPECIALLY) when the larger population doesn't want them around. But if not for Christopher Street for our gay and lesbian black and latino, etc. peeps, where would we have to go? Now, some of the people on the screets is just plain old nasty. (Some of them should be home studying). Some of them are way too young for the environment. But like I said, if not for Christopher Street, where else?! (That was an invitation for ideas, by the by.)

People need a place to connect to each other - especially (ESPECIALLY) when the larger population doesn't want them around anywhere else. But if not for Christopher Street for our gay and lesbian black and latino, etc. peeps, where would we have to go? Now, some of the people on the screets is just plain old nasty. (Some of them should be home studying). Some of them are way too young for the environment. But like I said, if not for Christopher Street, where else?! (That was an invitation for ideas, by the by.)