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ModeratorSix -> RE: Ontario, alternative lifestyle under attack (9/14/2004 7:58:43 PM)
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It looks like the queer community thinks that they are entitled to preferential treatment to me, and they aren't above playing the "homophobia" card to get it. From the look of what you posted, this was a routine sweep that cops do of adult oriented businesses (including bars and discos) all the time. One of the places happened to be a "queer space".
I have some exposure to both sides of this issue. I've known some adult business owners, and I've known a lot of cops. Any adult business owner knows, or should know, that they come in for more scrutiny than other businesses, so they need to keep what goes on in their place legal. Ask any cop, and they'll tell you why. Cops are out there doing a job, and a damn tough job at that. They don't have a hard-on for the local bathhouse, or the local peep-show, or titty bar, or whatever. Hell, you'll find some in any one of those places when they're off duty. They get complaints. Aside from the general religious zealots that want all such places closed, some people just get pissed off at the what happens around them. People leave drunk and piss on people's lawns. They side-swipe cars. They leave used condoms in the street for kids to find. Empty poppers, needles, etc.
Were the cops "looking for gay sex"? What if they were? They go into strip joints and peep shows looking for heterosexual sex all the time. Does that make them heterophobic? No. It makes them law enforcement officers. It's against the law to have sex in those places here, and from the sound of it, there too. How is it that the "queer space" is above or apart from the law?
Regardless of whether our alternative lifestyle is gay or hetero, it is our personal responsibility to conduct it in accordance with the law. If we choose not to (I certainly have at times, and I'm sure most folks here have too) and we get caught at it, we need to be grown-ups, and accept the consequences, not whine that someone is picking on us becuase of our lifestyle or because they are [take your pick]phobic. If the men that frequent that place don't want to get busted, they need to meet there, and go somewhere else (a motel room maybe?) where it's legal to fuck. Is that so hard? If that bath house is there specifically to promote and facilitate an illegal activity, frankly, I don't know how it stays open.
I'm posting here personally, not as a mod. The opinions that I have expressed here are my own, and in no way reflect the opinions of the owners, administrators, or other moderators on collarme.
Mod6
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