Quickie Link [1]: New Gay Culture Clashes with Old in West Village [2]

By : vanrozenheim on May 21, 2007 - 04:00 AM
Youth [3]
(New York, USA) - The young gay men and lesbians stream from subway stops dressed in their flashiest gear: rainbow sunglasses, 6-inch-high gold wedge sandals, a fatigue-printed hoodie, a rhinestone-studded pink Playboy bunny bag. Hundreds of them make their way through the West Village - home of the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s - toward the pier overlooking the Hudson River, where a drag queen in a platinum-blond wig and gold bamboo-style earrings swishes past a group of boys in baggy jeans. Rickke Mananzala, co-director of FIERCE, said young people tell him that they come here for the same reason, and that they have a right to hang out in the West Village, even if they can't afford to live here.

Note: Read full article on Baltimore Sun [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1231&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=10&lead=1
  [4] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.gay20may20,0,4691160.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines