Manchester's Gay Village is being invaded ... by straight people ...

October 24, 2001 2:36 PM

Manchester's Gay Village is being invaded ... by straight people ... 'Bob and Rose', the latest TV show from Russell T Davis (the creator of 'Queer as Folk') featured the every day story of a gay man and straight woman falling in love. Now the place where it was filmed is being flooded by women looking to fulfill the fantasy. Is this a new extreme form of media tourism? An interesting aspect of the story is that the community is objecting because these new visitors arn't following the established rules of regular patrons ...
posted by feelinglistless (10 comments total)

This happens everywhere -- rundown neighborhoods being gentrified, hoity-toity neighborhoods being "dragged down" by new arrivals, etc. etc. etc. Any city where this doesn't occur is a disaster waiting to happen.

No sympathy. Interesting media angle tho.
posted by aramaic at 2:45 PM on October 24, 2001

And soon the straight boys will go there following the ladies and then the gays will find a new cool place to go.

It's nature's cycle.
posted by rks404 at 2:55 PM on October 24, 2001

Sadly, Manchester isn't the largest city in the world ... there may not be anywhere else...
posted by feelinglistless at 2:59 PM on October 24, 2001

Gays outcasting straight people? Oh cruel, cruel irony.
posted by geoff. at 3:05 PM on October 24, 2001

And ANOTHER thing.... why aren't straight men catching on to this? Obviously girls are clamoring to turn a gay guy straight... well you guys get my drift.
posted by geoff. at 3:13 PM on October 24, 2001

the rise of the post straight man.

found via thebrad, of course.
posted by rebeccablood at 3:25 PM on October 24, 2001

why aren't straight men catching on to this?

I may be hallucinating, but I think I recall a Seinfeld episode about this. (and if I am hallucinating, I want my money back -- what a lousy hallucination!)
posted by aramaic at 3:32 PM on October 24, 2001

aramaic: I think this is the episode you're talking about. "Not that there's anything wrong with that".
posted by owillis at 4:28 PM on October 24, 2001

we will strike back. guerilla queer bar.
posted by ubique at 5:29 AM on October 25, 2001

I can safely say that no one will ever turn anyone into anything. They were whatever they are before the other person interfered.
posted by pooldemon at 7:37 AM on October 25, 2001