Gay-sex story: More views

Posted: April 14, 2003

I KNEW IT wouldn't be long until the Daily News was hammered with reaction to the April 3 article "Looking for Love in Public Places." Predictably, the piece was taken as anti-gay.

A message to letter-writers Young, Corcoran and Mitchell: Most people don't care if you are gay. Its your life, your choice.

The issue is gay sex in public places. It happens, it is inappropriate - and it is newsworthy. As a father of two young boys, I have the right to know if my children may be exposed to situations that I feel are inappropriate. I and many others feel sex in public areas, gay or straight, is inappropriate.

I commend the Daily News for bringing this issue to light and suggest that the gay community not be so ultrasensitive when negative aspects of their community are made public.

Tom Walker, Philadelphia

I was glad to see your paper exposing the disgusting act of having anonymous sex in a public place. But it disturbed me that the target of the article was the gay community.

The article made it seem that gay people were nothing but Cro-magnons with uncontrollable hormones. The same type of acts are committed by heterosexual people on the streets of Philadelphia everyday. But I guess prostitution is acceptable if it is heterosexual.

Chipper Martin, Philadelphia

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