Just as blacks marched over 50 years ago from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to protest the discrimination against blacks by the racists of the Deep South in housing, education, and public accommodation, so again we need to march, this time, not against the racists of the Deep South, but against the Castrocreepers, who have surpassed their cousins of the Deep South in the art of discrimination by adding the practice of economic discrimination to racial discrimination.
Castrocreepersociety is adamant that no blacks and no middle class or lower class gay people be allowed to live in the gay Castro District neighborhood of San Francisco. Having learned from the missteps of their racist cousins of the Deep South of Alabama, Castrocreepersociety cleverly effects its discriminatory policy, not by overt laws disallowing blacks and lower and middle class gays from living in the Castro, but, by enshrining the Victorian homes of the Castro neighborhood to sacrosanct status and thus limiting the neighborhood to only multimillionaires who can afford palatial Victorian palaces. I am sure the racists of the Deep South would praise Castrocreepersociety for their cleverness in effectively excluding lower and middle class gays of all races from the Castro neighborhood. To add insult to injury, the Creepers of Castrocreepersociety have arranged it so that ‘their’ neighborhood features gay rights pioneers enshrined in bronze casts in the sidewalks of the Castro, many of these gay pioneers persons of color, and most of these gay pioneers individuals who could never afford to live in the Castro of 2016 and who would be easily and lightly be spit upon and evicted from their Castro street apartments by the Castrocreepersociety landlords of 2016. The cleverness, the hypocrisy, and all the energy that Castrocreepersociety devotes to discrimination makes me want to consult with Shirley MacLaine and ask her whether she feels that the highest ranking members of the National Socialists Workers’ Party of Germany, the most adamant racists of the Deep South, and the staunchest Apartheidists of South Africa, all thought long deceased, have all come back to live reincarnated lives as the gay homeowners of Castrocreepersociety.
In order to protest Castrocreepersociety’s commandeering of the Castro, and in the best tradition of the brave people who marched from Selma to Montgomery, I am proposing a march on gay freedom day in June from Harvey Milk’s old camera shop at 525 Castro Street to 260 Douglas Street, ground zero to Castrocreepersociety. Unlike the usual June Gay parade down Market St., which is of, by, and for Castrocreepersociety, this march will honor all the various members of the gay community, regardless of their race or economic status. And just as the Selma to Montgomery march over 50 years ago led to changes that brought about the downfall of the racists of the Deep South, it is hoped that this new inclusive gay parade will start a process that will bring about the downfall of Castrocreepersociety.