To The Editor:
Is gay segregation the answer?
I was saddened and offended by Michael Carosone and Joseph Logiudice’s article, “As for Chelsea, goodbye to all that” (November 16). I have lived in Chelsea over 20 years and the neighborhood certainly has changed in good and bad ways. But my children live in a building with children who have two moms, children who have two dads, children who have one mom and one dad and children with just single parent. We come from different socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures — and somehow we all get along wonderfully.
Michael and Joseph seem to suggest that segregating people based on sexual preferences is the answer. Gay folks should only live with gay folks? Do they also feel that African Americans and Caucasian Americans should live in separate neighborhoods?
Shockingly, the article adopts the very name-calling tone that it condemns (Chelsea is “…gentrified for the new heterosexuals and their bigotry”). The endless potshots and low blows are immature and untrue.
I am sorry for the name calling Michael and Joseph experienced on the street. I have certainly experienced that myself. But is that any reason to condemn all heterosexuals in Chelsea? The destructive actions of a few people do not represent an entire group or culture. It is the vile side of human nature to blame and reduce people to labels. Such negative abstract thinking only triggers more prejudice and hatred — dark forces that can only be defeated through unity and diversity, not through blame and segregation.
Shame on Chelsea Now for printing such divisive rubbish.
