[carapace]

Growing up in SF I had a ringside seat for the "enclosure" of gay culture by-- I don't want to say "corporate", although that's a big part of it-- a lot of corporate execs are openly gay now, eh?

Anyway, Gay Pride and especially the Castro Halloween celebration went from being subversive to mainstream and the celebration itself literally became more exclusive, with fences and then ticket sales. Now it's the theme-park version of itself.

Same with Haight St. and the hippie culture: packaged up into a theme-park of itself. The actual hippies are marginalized in favor of tourism and consumerism.