LEWDNESS IS EVERYWHERE: SO WHY TARGET GAYS?
By Jerome Cleary
On any given night in Southern California, lewd conduct is happening. So why are gays still targeted? In the past two years, I have had to spend a lot of time along the Sunset Strip since many of the comedy venues are also there.
This is what I have seen in the same week this past December 2005:
In the parking lot of Miyagi’s, in a parked car — a woman climbed onto a guy as he sat in the driver’s seat and she pulled down her top exposing her breasts. The man under the woman began to fondle her breasts. This was just after 11 p.m. along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
Further west on the Strip a few nights later after midnight, I see a woman performing fellatio on a guy in a car that is parked next to a parking meter on Sunset Boulevard.
Finally, at the end of this fascinating week, I see a guy exposing his genitals as he urinates along the sidewalk and wall. He tells the parking valets: “Don’t look, don’t look.”
All three of these lewd conduct incidents happened in everyone’s plain view. Since it was right on the Sunset Strip under streetlights, it would be really hard not to see it.
I saw no police activity patrolling this area or cracking down on any of this, though the LAPD has found the time to target lewd conduct on La Jolla Avenue. Yes, we all know it’s a heavily cruised area that got its name of Vaseline Alley for the parking lot behind the Gold Coast Bar on Santa Monica Boulevard.
But I have seen the same activity in heterosexual areas, and it’s not looked upon as being offensive or a problem.
When a man and a woman are caught making out and getting hot and heavy in their car, it doesn’t seem to generate much interest in society. I am guessing even if it were two women, it would still not stir people as much.
But when it’s two men, well, that is a whole different story, and it must be cracked down on.
The street in question for the police decoys for entrapment is La Jolla just south of Santa Monica Boulevard that runs south from the West Hollywood border into the Los Angeles city area.
Of course, we all know that it would be better if people did not try to have sex in public, and yet sex in public still goes on in every city and every town.
The real question is why the police department is not also using decoy police officers up on Sunset Boulevard and other areas to entrap heterosexuals?
It’s because in society, gay sex is considered offensive even in 2006, and the police department would not even consider entrapping heterosexuals up on Sunset Boulevard.
I do not condone public sex, but public sex will always be there on some street, in some car, on some beach and in some park.
Using attractive male police officers in tight clothing as decoys makes me think of some bad TV episode of “Charlie’s Angels” or “Three’s Company.”
When we see it in a TV show or film, we think it’s funny. When we hear about it in our own city, it is still hard to believe this situation could not be dealt with in a much better way.
Jerome Cleary is an actor, writer and comic at The World Famous Comedy Store-www.freecomedytickets.com and can be reached at: jeromeclearytalk@aol.com.
On any given night in Southern California, lewd conduct is happening. So why are gays still targeted? In the past two years, I have had to spend a lot of time along the Sunset Strip since many of the comedy venues are also there.
This is what I have seen in the same week this past December 2005:
In the parking lot of Miyagi’s, in a parked car — a woman climbed onto a guy as he sat in the driver’s seat and she pulled down her top exposing her breasts. The man under the woman began to fondle her breasts. This was just after 11 p.m. along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
Further west on the Strip a few nights later after midnight, I see a woman performing fellatio on a guy in a car that is parked next to a parking meter on Sunset Boulevard.
Finally, at the end of this fascinating week, I see a guy exposing his genitals as he urinates along the sidewalk and wall. He tells the parking valets: “Don’t look, don’t look.”
All three of these lewd conduct incidents happened in everyone’s plain view. Since it was right on the Sunset Strip under streetlights, it would be really hard not to see it.
I saw no police activity patrolling this area or cracking down on any of this, though the LAPD has found the time to target lewd conduct on La Jolla Avenue. Yes, we all know it’s a heavily cruised area that got its name of Vaseline Alley for the parking lot behind the Gold Coast Bar on Santa Monica Boulevard.
But I have seen the same activity in heterosexual areas, and it’s not looked upon as being offensive or a problem.
When a man and a woman are caught making out and getting hot and heavy in their car, it doesn’t seem to generate much interest in society. I am guessing even if it were two women, it would still not stir people as much.
But when it’s two men, well, that is a whole different story, and it must be cracked down on.
The street in question for the police decoys for entrapment is La Jolla just south of Santa Monica Boulevard that runs south from the West Hollywood border into the Los Angeles city area.
Of course, we all know that it would be better if people did not try to have sex in public, and yet sex in public still goes on in every city and every town.
The real question is why the police department is not also using decoy police officers up on Sunset Boulevard and other areas to entrap heterosexuals?
It’s because in society, gay sex is considered offensive even in 2006, and the police department would not even consider entrapping heterosexuals up on Sunset Boulevard.
I do not condone public sex, but public sex will always be there on some street, in some car, on some beach and in some park.
Using attractive male police officers in tight clothing as decoys makes me think of some bad TV episode of “Charlie’s Angels” or “Three’s Company.”
When we see it in a TV show or film, we think it’s funny. When we hear about it in our own city, it is still hard to believe this situation could not be dealt with in a much better way.
Jerome Cleary is an actor, writer and comic at The World Famous Comedy Store-www.freecomedytickets.com and can be reached at: jeromeclearytalk@aol.com.
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