while i hate some of the new stuff of downtown. like all the yuppy hipster or whatever the fuck they are, i cant help but look past them like i did when in frisco.

DT just has so much.
the loss of score bar was big. that was the oldest gay bar in LA!!! now its a place packed with a bunch of frat party kids. its horrible, but luckily i still got jaliscos.

and who says i gotta go to a gay place.
i love the FIG and the newer places like broadway bar or GG.

but everyone please dont get $hit twisted the gays have been in DT since forever. la broadway was were all the queens got there gowns. you could not throw a stick with out hitting some queen.
and now a lot of the young gay urban kids hang out in pershing like they did in the past.
lastly, i been sayin that if some promoter or bar owner was smart they would invest in DT and give the gays something in downtown, and not mustache mondays.
some have tried gay nights at the mayan or other places but now that DT is coming back to life it would be perfect and ripe for the picking.

While I am aware of a load of great little places that retain the flavour of olde Los Angeles, I am also aware they are so cottage and boutique that the tsunami of gentrification sweeping the relatively small plot that is downtown Los Angeles is sure to consume them. I walk these streets almost daily, primarily those areas that no one who blogs can name and am watching the LAPD, the street services, the patterns of city behaviour that are indicative of what is to come and what has long been planned.

The bohemian environment that is so keen at present will only make way for its own destruction, by way of making the downtown streets safe for the multinational corporate interests to move in and take over. It is an inevitable pattern. The events surrounding the imbroglio regarding Pharmika nearly being evicted and M.J. Higgens former spot being the new one for a LAPD motor pool are proof positive of the negative. there is more in the works too; these developments do not happen overnight.

The truly big developers have their collective eye on the Arts, Olde Bank and Skid Row districts. I was along on two downtown poet-art walks (back in late 2006) that had Ed Rosenthal and Tom Gilmore participating, and they are well aware of what is possible.

Like walk around the gayborhood.