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Supreme Court's Obergefell v Hodges ruling in June/conflicting feelings on those new rainbow crosswalks SDOT rolled out in June-the sort of sociological debates about the soul of neighborhoods and scenes like Capitol Hill will persist.Īnd that’s just another sign to me that-along with queer hip hop shows and transit hubs-Capitol Hill’s soul is alive and well.Design expert Rebecca West helps you to learn how to achieve a geographical cure without actually relocating and how to redecorate so you can feel best in your space. Here's one cool idea I wrote about in the magazine-pedestrian only zones-that some longtime residents (and gay performers) have endorsed.Īs gay culture becomes more mixed in with mainstream culture-three cheers for the U.S.
It's proof that the city needs public policies to make people safe. This is a scary reality, but it’s not proof that Capitol Hill no longer has soul.
Alarmed about hate crimes, Danni Askini, the executive director of the Gender Justice League, asked the SPD to crunch the numbers and found a 56 percent increase in bias incidents in the East precinct, which includes Capitol Hill, when comparing January through September 2015 to the same period last year.Ī culture clash is a likely cause for the increase. Hasn’t Capitol Hill always been a mix of gays and straights and artists and writers and bars and clubs? I’ve lived on Capitol Hill for 17 years, and complaints that straights were overrunning gay bars such as R Place and Neighbors were prevalent back then.Ĭertainly, the LGBTQ community is vulnerable as more mainstream revelers flock to the neighborhood. I've got no solution to the age-old phenomenon that things aren't as cool as they used to be, but I would posit (as this great New York Times opinion piece about the perpetual death of NYC's East Village explained it this past Sunday), it's all pretty subjective. The irony that this cycle creates, of course, is classic: As mainstream culture discovers a counterculture neighborhood (or a counterculture in general) the counterculture gets compromised. Historically, bohemian enclaves struggle with existential dilemmas about authenticity when their exciting neighborhoods draw in more people and attention-and investment. And with mass transit making it more accessible, it's likely to get even more jumping. If you missed my post, excited about the convergence of public transit-a new street car line and a new light rail stop-on Capitol Hill, I wrote that all the kvetching about the death of Capitol Hill diverges from the fact that the joint is jumping.