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Imagine if gay guys went into a traditionally heterosexual area in San Francisco — or anywhere really — and walked around holding hands with each other and made out on street corners and fawned over each other and made sure everyone knew they were a couple. I think there would be quite an uproar over that. I can hear some people in those areas yell to the gay couples, “Get out of here with that stuff. Take that back to The Castro!” Yet when heterosexuals do the same thing in a queer area, nothing is said. The heterosexuals get away with it. Most people say nothing in response. So why the difference?

This article is about San Francisco’s Castro neighbourhood which was once the gay mecca. Today the neighbourhood is mostly heterosexual, but it takes awhile to realise that because of the over-saturation of queer imagery everywhere you look. Some might say it’s there for historical purposes, but it’s there for tourist dollar purposes. The merchants have tried to continue the lie that The Castro is still a gay mecca, but all one has to do is hang out in The Castro awhile and one will realise that’s not the case. For years now, the merchants and those useless and busy-bodied neighbourhood associations have said, “The neighbourhood is changing,” but they never say how because they don’t want to offend the heterosexuals and the heterosexual dollars that they (the merchants) might get.

It’s not that the heteros just hang out in The Castro. They have also taken over some of the gay bars. Apparently they didn’t think that they had enough bars to their name, even though most bars in The City are hetero. And it’s not that they’re socialising with queers in The Castro, in fact, the str8s isolate themselves. Some have been heard making anti-queer comments under their breath. Why did they move there then? Doh.

Some years ago, heterosexuals began moving into The Castro in droves. They could have moved anywhere else in The City such as to a traditionally hetero area, but they deliberately moved into The Castro and started changing the neighbourhood to the way they wanted it to be. I remember when the prudes demanded that the queer sex stores cover up using white stickers any sexually-explicit images on porn video covers in their store fronts. The conservative prude heterosexuals didn’t want to see any dick or ass images on the front of video covers. Again, why did they move there then? But I suspect if the stores showed pussy and tit images, they would have been perfectly acceptable, no?

The heteros make it quite obvious that they’re hetero by their in-your-face behaviour. They shove their sexuality in queer faces daily. They stand at the corner of 18th and Castro and make out for everyone to see. Him and Her also feel the need to hold hands as they’re walking up and down Castro or the side streets and they make out at the bus stop to show everyone that they’re straight. Does anyone care that they’re straight? No, because no one knows these young people in their 20s and 30s. So why do they feel the need to put on a Heterosexual Matinée in a queer area or fading queer area? Or is his girl that needy and insecure in their relationship? Often these couples look like they just met, or are they cheating on someone? And why the need to shove their sexuality in the face of the few remaining queers in The Castro? Some people find that very disrespectful.

One wonders why the alleged str8 couples hang out and live in a queer area? San Francisco’s Castro is mainly heterosexual today but there are still some queers who live there. It’s a heterosexual area over-saturated with rainbow flag imagery. Really quite odd really. 

If I had a girlfriend, I would not be hanging out or living in The Castro because I suspect my GF would ask me, “Why are we over here? Why do we keep coming over here and why would you want to live over here? I thought you were straight?” Or are you really queer and in the closet and hope to discreetly meet a guy to have sex with on the side? Yes, she’d be making a good point. Do the girls with these guys who present themselves as a str8 couple ever ask their guy those questions? ”Why are we in The Castro? Why are we hanging out amongst gay, gay, gay everywhere you look? We could be in any other traditional hetero neighbourhood in The City, but yet you chose to come over here? What’s up with that?” Yes, what is up with that?

I often wonder: Do the heteros not see all the rainbow flags and rainbow images? How could they not when they are everywhere you look? They are on every utility pole in the neighbourhood. How do they rationalise their alleged heterosexuality and deliberately choosing to be around queer images and making out with their girl below a rainbow flag? It’s a damn odd phenomenon. 

My queer friend asked: ”Do the str8s think the rainbow flags are now the straight’s flag? I don’t get it. Many of the guys look gay to me whilst holding hands with a girl. The thing is, if he’s a closet case with a girl, ain’t much going to happen with them sexually in their bedroom.” That is true. Usually with guys like that, if he’s able to get a hard on in front of his girl she’ll be sucking his limp dick. Then if he’s able to fantasise that she’s a guy sucking his dick, he might be able to get a boner, but until then, that’s about it. He likely won’t go near her pussy. He might lightly play or pretend to be into her tits. Playing with her tits are safe enough for a closet case. How many times has this story played out? I’ve seen guys/couples like that in the live cam sex shows. And there are thousands of gay (or bi) closet cases around the world living a heterosexual life with a girlfriend or wife and kids. Everyone thinks they’re straight because he’s got a wife. He’s really a gay closet case. Also, a guy does not have to fuck pussy to get a girl pregnant although that is the easiest way. He can instead wank off in his hand and finger his cum into her vagina and that will get her pregnant. It only takes one sperm to fertilise the egg. There’s also a 30% chance of getting a girl pregnant by cumming on her labia.

To be clear, I’ve learned in recent years that there are quite a few guys who are straight (or they may be bi) but they absolutely look gay to me. But with their girl, they’re very much into her, licking her pussy and fucking her. So they’re definitely into their girl. So he’s either straight or bi despite looking like he’s gay.

But there’s another group of gay-looking guys who are only in to her giving him a blow job. I’ve seen those guys; there are many of them. He doesn’t do much with her pussy, if anything. He might fuck her briefly, but he never licks her pussy. I sense that that type of guy is gay and in the closet and he’s with a girl for social reasons (family pressures, for example).

I said that The Castro is a queer area — or rather it looks like a queer area — because of the way it looks even though there are still some queers who live there and hang out there. So one wonders: Why do straights want to live there and hang out there rather than in North Beach or The Marina or Union Street or The Avenues or Nob Hill as some examples? They are the traditional heterosexual areas in San Francisco. 

What sparked this article was that I saw three alleged heterosexual couples yesterday and each guy in the couple looked gay to me. These three guys could be one of the many gay-looking straight guys that I’ve seen in recent years since there appears to be no shortage of alleged straight guys who look gay. Or they may be bi, but only he knows that. Or they may be gay guys forcing themselves to be with a girl.

With some of these alleged hetero couples, I’ve seen the guy’s eyes wander off to cruise a guy in a store, for example. His girl catches him doing that and then she takes her elbow and rams it into his ribs as if to say, “Stop looking at guys.” She gets pissed because she caught him checking out another guy. She seems to think she can control her guy’s sexuality — good luck with that! — where it appears that he is really bi or even gay but is with her and closeted. Does this cause her to wonder why they’re hanging out in The Castro? Or is she really that dense?

Why would a genuine straight guy look gay or choose to look gay? My queer friend thinks it’s possibly gay guys forcing themselves to be with girls in order to please nagging parents about, “When are you going to find a nice girl?” and “When are you getting married” and “When are you going to give us grand kids?” and that tired routine which has played itself out for generations.

I call these guys I’m talking about — the gay closet cases — the fake straight guys. They annoy me because I see a gay guy with a girl and it doesn’t look right. It’s a mind fuck. The dude could be bi and like many or most bi guys his dominant sexual interest is for girls, but again: Why do they hang out and or choose to live in The Castro, an area over-saturated with gay imagery if they’re genuinely straight? Again, if I had a GF I would not go anywhere near the former gay mecca except when I had to, as was the case yesterday afternoon. 

I’ve never felt that comfortable in The Castro so it’s not a place that I hang-out in. There’s really nothing there to begin with except some bars and I’m not into drinking. The restaurants are mostly very average and greasy spoons. The neighbourhood has a lot of bad baggage with it with the conservative merchants and conservative homeowners. Years ago, my friend and I were harassed there by conservatives for carrying a protest sign when we came back the City Hall area from one of the protests. It was then that we knew The Castro was changing for the worst: towards conservative. I was also harassed there for wearing a Tye-dye shirt on one occasion.