Driveby post

[blamebrampton]

Because it's 2 and I was up after 4 last night watching tennis after the Grand Prix. Oops.

On the train this morning, two people from a publisher I used to work for chatting loudly about someone I vaguely knew.

"Yeah, he's moved from Sydney to San Francisco. So he's gone from the gayest city in the world to the gayest city in the world."

Never a truer word spoken. Back fine, camera bought, cats adorable. More later.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I've only visited SF, but I have to say that it is a fair comment on the man's behalf, the concentration of gay in Sydney is proportionally higher, and for SF's Castro, Sydney has both Oxford St/Darlinghurst and Newtown/Erskineville.

That said, SF has the better clubs by a mile, and Sydney's police liaison relationships have gone screaming downhill in the last five years (I blame two leading church identities who are doing their level best to make homophobia fashionable again.)

Sydney has more gay-friendly bookshops and a broader distribution of clubs, with a real need for more organised SF-style politics.

My current theory is that SF may actually be a little gayer, but Sydney is slightly more lesbian.