Clover Moore's Gay Ghetto Promise

Why should any part of any city be structured on the basis of sexual preference?

Is Sydney City Council guilty of conversion therapy?

That’s the question that will be put to council by angry LGBTQIA+ activists concerned that Oxford Street is too straight.

Activists are worried the street is losing its gay character due to new planning rules, gentrification and young families with kids moving into the area.

You can see why they’re upset. Young heterosexual couples with children would mean diversity. And we can’t have that.

Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore promised she was intent on making Oxford Street the gayest place in Sydney.

She told the Sydney Morning Herald that the council’s Oxford Street LGBTQIA+ Social and Cultural Place Strategy (yes that’s a thing) would protect the identity and culture of the precinct.

She promised the council would recognise historic gay places, create more gay crossings and prioritise a gay museum.

She said …

“We want the strip to be a celebration of LGBTQIA+ culture and community, a destination and workplace for culture and creatives, with more businesses and local services in the street’s heritage buildings.”

And here I was thinking Oxford Street was born gay. But no. Apparently it has - and continues to be - groomed by the sexuality botherers in city council.

Why should any part of any city be structured on the basis of sexual preference? So gay.

Retail tenants in Oxford Street are encouraged to sign up to the area’s pride business charter whereby they agree to prefer LGBTQ staff.

But woe to any Catholic school that prefers Catholics! I digress.

Darlinghurst Business Partnership president Stephan Gyory told the SMH that intolerant or prejudiced businesses would not survive in Oxford Street, funny when the area’s pride business charter is kind of intolerant toward heterosexual people looking for employment.

Oh well.

I remember when gays just wanted to be treated like everyone else. Doesn't the fact that heterosexual couples with kids want to move in next door demonstrate how successful the LGBTQ+ movement has been?

They're now so accepted, and commonplace, that people want to live move in right across the road.

But Sydney City Council prefer to maintain a ghettoised version of gay culture.

How ironic that a movement championing social change demands limits on changes themselves.