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Here/Queer: Boogie Down Bronx Edition
It's not that there aren't any homos in the Bx. Indeed, it's bursting with hot young happy queers of all shades and degrees of awarding. What's different here is the ability or lack thereof to prolong queer enterprises such as bars, clubs, and bookstores. Although the mercantile structure of the Bronx is diverse, in the areas I’ve masterly there isn’t enough disposable income for GLBTQ hot spots to grow (and what money there is to spend almost always goes to the Yankees.) That’s the bar. The community I live in can't maintain an all-queer array in the same way it can't maintain something like a Whole Foods or a fancy primary dry cleaner. It doesn't mean that we don't do our thing. It doesn't get over we don't support each other or individual business owners or community centers, like the Bronx Snobbery Center. It just means that for big things to get poppin', we customarily have to figure it out for ourselves.So finding homolicious thangs to do in the Bronx takes a pygmy creativity and some fearlessness. Without exclusively homo sound spots, we've got to exist in the open at all times and not give any fucks . But that's what Bronx living is like for all of us: Not giving ANY fucks. The Bronx is the birthplace of salsa music, hip-hop, asunder-dancing and the best damn pizza on the planet. Eat that, Brooklyn.
