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Spokane to become "gay mecca"?(Insider Report)

The New American

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Homosexual activists in Spokane, Washington, "are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife--a development religious conservatives contend would clash with Spokane's family-centered culture," reported AP on January 22.

"There is a very large gay population here," insists Bonnie Aspen, an activist with the Northwest Business Alliance who resettled in Spokane with her "partner" two years ago. Like many other homosexuals who have recently arrived in the small, conservative community, Aspen fled San Francisco's urban congestion.

While the municipal government "is not exactly pushing the notion of a gay district," it's doing nothing to oppose ...

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