Think of a fictional area of the city that is thoroughly saturated with the heterosexual flag. The heterosexual flag is everywhere you look. How many queer people deliberately choose to go there to live or visit? None. Or hardly any, unless they’re in the closet and they certainly would not be holding hands because they would feel uncomfortable doing so in an area saturated with the heterosexual flag everywhere you look.
In reality, supposed they put up the heterosexual flag everywhere you looked in San Francisco’s Marina district or North Beach or Cow Hollow or Pacific Heights or Union Street, or the Avenues, or any other area but The Castro. Here’s one version of the heterosexual flag:
Rather uninteresting and dull, huh? Nothing creative about that.
Then you have the same situation in reverse in San Francisco’s Castro, the former gay mecca. The area is over-saturated with rainbow flags and queer imagery everywhere you look and the neighbourhood today is mostly heterosexual. Why? The lingering question is: Why do alleged heterosexuals want to hang out and or live in an area with gay images and symbols everywhere you look? That makes no sense to thinking people.
Him and her couples holding hands make sure everyone sees them pushing their required-black baby stroller. Which one of them is really in the closet and gay? Why else would they be there in a former gay mecca? Doesn’t “the wife” or GF say to her guy, “Honey, why are we over here amongst all these rainbow flags? Why did you insist that we must live here? Why didn’t you choose any other mostly heterosexual area — that was never a gay mecca — of the city to visit or live in that doesn’t have all this gay stuff everywhere you look? It’s so shoved in your face no matter where you look. So why? Why here? What appeals to you over here? Exactly. What is his (lame) answer to that question? Or a guy asks his wife or GF the same question. Is she a closeted lesbian? What else can explain this phenomenon?
Some of the locals in The Castro have never understood this phenomenon. The comparison to an area saturated with the heterosexual flag is spot on. Because if it were in the reverse, I don’t think any queers would deliberately go there or live there in an area of the city completely saturated with the heterosexual flag. It would make them feel very uncomfortable. Below is another version of the heterosexual flag. So heterosexuals only like black and grey? How boring. Reminds me of all the conformist and conservative-looking zombies I see walking around San Francisco — particularly in The Castro — in their depressing-looking all-black clothing or black and grey clothing. One wonders: What funeral did you just come from? Imagine wearing all-black or black and grey clothing 365 days a year as these conformist people do. One would need a strong anti-depressant for that.
So what is it with these perceived or fake closet case gays who are pretending to be heterosexuals and who love to visit and live in The Castro, when there is really nothing there anymore other than rainbow flags and rainbow/queer imagery, overpriced greasy-spoon restaurants, tons of boarded up shops, a few sex stores that are on the verge of closing and a few bars? Again, there’s nothing there. It’s mainly a place to go and get drunk.
The conservative merchants, conservative homeowners, and politicians can lie and call The Castro “vibrant” all they want. Do they also think that a cemetery is “vibrant?” Vibrant seems to be the fad word of the day for describing anything these days that is in the midst of dying. Vibrant. Everything is vibrant, even when it’s not. The Castro is not even a museum relic of its former self. It’s nothing like it was. And that’s because it’s been heavily sanitised by the conservatives.
I have to say that in my opinion, the heterosexual flag is one ugly flag. Although the terrified-of-colour 20s and 30s crowd and the “Black and Grey” crowd who wear “funeral clothes” 365 days a year will love it.