Quote Originally Posted by Goodman3eb
Breukelen, you make valid points. I gave the rat example simply to show that homosexuality is not "unnatural" as some people claim. Whether or not the overpopulation thing applies to humans or not is speculation. Perhaps homosexuality is more common, perhaps it's just less hidden, and perhaps there is simply more media coverage. Good point on the cities thing, too. I agree that most residents in such areas are not originally from there, I just find it interesting that homosexuals tend to congregate in heavily populated areas, as if they were somehow drawn to them.

At one time, promiscuous behavior in the gay urban ghettos was the a trend (but NOT with all of them I'm sure). AIDS has curtailed that. The old "bathhouses" are all gone: Bette Midler got a huge start entertaining the patrons of these places in New York, c. early 1970ā??s. Barry Manilow was her bandleader at the Continental Baths in the old Ansonia Hotel. Melba Moore, Peter Allen, Cab Calloway, The Manhattan Transfer, John Davidson, Wayland Flowers and many other made the place very successful. There were "straight" places, such as Plato's Retreat, also. All of them, as far as I know, were closed down by the Health Department. I remember "massage parlors" in Times Square, and they are gone also. You can get anything you want here, for a price, but itā??s no longer out in the open.

P.S. I didn't visit Plato's, or engage in ANY of these activities, lol. I never believed that I'd get AIDS from a woman, but even before that I never wanted to risk getting the clap, syphilis, or herpes. I DID attend a live peep show once - you had to feed tokens in your booth to keep watching. This was really seedy - the girls would stick their body parts (for extra $) through the partition for guys to enjoy. I kind of miss the seedy aspects of Times Square - not that Iā??d patronize the live shows, etc., anymore (Iā??m married), but itā??s a part of New York that will probably be forgotten - except for books and movies. As soon as I get a widescreen TV, my first purchase will be Taxi Driver. Another good movie about the seediy days of NYC is Midnight Cowboy, which I saw when it was released in the theaters. I have the DVD - great movie! Death Wish is another good NYC movie from this period, as is the hard- to- find The Incident,