Gays are ruining Cleveland

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or at least that is what FOX News 8's ITeam would have you believe. Evidently there are some male prostitutes working a local park. I typically purple prose we heard of all the awful things they were doing IN PUBLIC. What can I say? It's sweeps. What would sweeps be without portraying gays as "Perverts in the Park" which was the title of the report. Sorry no link.

Imagine what someone ends up thinking of an openly gay person they may barely know after that report.

[Dookus]

1. I didn't know Cleveland COULD be ruined n/t

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2. actually we have some awesome things here

Including a top art museum, and one of the five best orchestras in the world. We also have some crap as well.

[Radical Activist]

10. I just spent 6 months living in Cleveland

I liked it. It reminds me of Chicago, but smaller. I wonder what park the story was about. I used to go jogging in a park on the lake that was very nice.

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14. It was that park I would be sure

but that park (Edgewater) is huge it encompasses pretty much all of Cleveland's beachfront from West 80th or so to East 176th.

[blackcat77]

3. They said the same thing about my little town.

To hear the press tell it, this one park was just OVERRUN with rampaging hummasekshuls. The funny thing is that I visited that park all the time -- it was where we went to walk the dogs and I never saw anything untoward. Of course they busted one unfortunate couple in a restroom which got lots of attention so the mayor posted a cop outside the restrooms and "closed the park" at sunset, which was ridiculous wince it was wide open spaces but I guess that made it all better.

Or at least it got the story off the news...

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4. kick

[devilgrrl]

5. For Christ's sake do these assholes have anything better to cover?

I went to college in Cleveland. Are they talk about the park near Lakewood by the lake? (forgot the name) A friend took me over there and mentioned in passing that it could get real cruisey... yeah whatever...

This story is just fear-mongering, hateful homophobic propaganda.

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7. yeah

but actually that park (Edgewater) runs the length of Cleveland. Of course only a small part is cruisy but they made it sound worse by having the whole park in there report.

[devilgrrl]

11. typical FAUX...

Edgewater! That's the park, yes, I recall seeing a few 4th of July's at Edgewater but closer to downtown. Also, one would think things would be cruisier over by Lakewood... I mean duh!

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12. Yeah

like I am going to go to E55th and cruise. Sure I am.

[troublemaker]

6. I'm glad Somebody is.

Most groups wouldn't bother with Cleveland.

[Pithlet]

8. They run stories like that around here, too.

Homosexuals in the park! Homosexuals in the men's bathroom at the mall! Horrors!

Local news is the pits.

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9. I am a huge 24 fan

so I saw four ads for this story (one for each break).

[TankLV]

13. You know, it's really sad when they make fun of a city for cheap humor.

Even in the old and decrepit Soviet Union they had a city that everyone made fun of, and was absolutely horrible, etc. etc.

it was still Cleveland, ...

Gotta love Yakov Smirnov!

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15. Gays having sex in a park? This is news?

That's kinda like "dog bites man," or "it's raining in Seattle."