Monday, November 3, 2008

Defend Your Porn Shops, Defend New York

New York City is continuing its war against gay people and against sex. While Proposition K, decriminalizing sex work, has a good chance of passing tomorrow in San Francisco, here in New York, police are harassing customers of gay porn stores, entrapping them in prostitution charges, people that are not sex workers charged with being so. It is so incredibly fucked-up and makes me seethe with rage toward the powers that be in this city and how they are reshaping this city in terrible ways. What I am talking about is the excellent cover story of this week's Gay City News, which details a series of arrests that have occurred at Blue Door Video in the East Village, many customers being entrapped in prostitution stings. It is fucking outrageous that our police resources, our public dollars, are being directed in this effort to stigmatize and intimidate patrons of porn stores, mainly of course gay porn stores. I patronize gay porn stores and I have the right to do so, want to be able to continue to do so, don't want these places closed for fictitious violations and offenses, don't want to see another Wachovia or Chase or Bank of America branch where something useful actually was. And maybe you moved to New York for the same reason I did, to escape all this bullshit and to live somewhere that had life, that wasn't stupid suburban bullshit on every fucking corner. And maybe if that's the case, you should tell your elected officials to back the fuck off of your shit. Contact City Council here or the mayor here.

And this is on the day where stupid Bloomberg signed the bill overriding the term limits that voters enacted by referendum. I think term limits are stupid (that that is what elections are for), but think that if voters vote for them, then those same voters should vote to get rid of them. It makes me so angry how the process of overturning this was done, so angry with the mayor and with the City Council. It is all so dirty.

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