Flag Wars on PBS

[Gil_Favor]

Anyone see this film on PBS this past week?

It was/is about Gays moving into innercity Columbus and displacing poor blacks .

The producers did a good job of presenting both sides of the issue,

I know the neighborhood quite well,

and would be interested in hearing the gay perspective on what some call, gentrification.

Thanks..............

 

[James Blandings]

I have to disagree. I thought it had an anti-gay slant. It sure seemed to paint the gays as the bad guys to me.

 

[Problem Child]

I saw it...thought it (the film itself) was pretty balanced.

I thought the blacks in the film came of as quite a bit more intolerant and prejudiced than the gays, and some of them even admitted as much.

The general gay opinion seemed to be "What can we do to fit in here?" and the dominant black opinion seemed to be "We don't want them here...this is our neighborhood."

Of course, there were differing and varying opinions on both sides, but those were the general tones I got.

Then there was the guy with the Nazi flags in front of his house...

 

[Gil_Favor]

I thought the blacks in the film came of as quite a bit more intolerant and prejudiced than the gays, and some of them even admitted as much.

The general gay opinion seemed to be "What can we do to fit in here?" and the dominant black opinion seemed to be "We don't want them here...this is our neighborhood."

I agree,

I found the court procedures interesting,

Im not sure the woman who owned the property in question had adaquate representation,

It is an extremely rough area, lots of muggings, breakins etc............

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

Anyone see this film on PBS this past week?

It was/is about Gays moving into innercity Columbus and displacing poor blacks .

The producers did a good job of presenting both sides of the issue,

I know the neighborhood quite well,

and would be interested in hearing the gay perspective on what some call, gentrification.

Thanks..............

I haven't seen this documentary yet. I intend to though. Did Ken Burns produce this film???

Anywho, my question is did the poor Black people in the film object to the (I'm assuming since no one said "White" gay people) on the basis of their sexuality, or on the basis of them being yet another group of rich carpet-baggers coming into a an economically disadvantaged community and driving the price of real estate out of the reach of those who've traditionally lived there?

As a Black man who lives in a somewhat affluent suburb that is very visibly full of Gay people, I find this interesting.

Now that I think of it ... I can just go to PBS.org and read about it myself...