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Gay Activists Sue to Protect the Right to Have Sex in Public Terlets

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Gay rights lawyer says arresting gay men for having public sex near a little league field is “the gay equivalent of Jim Crow Laws.”

Nickerson says he’s pored over SJPD’s arrest records for similar sting operations over the years, and says gay men are being singled out, claiming it’s a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants equal protection under the law.

“It is the gay equivalent of stopping Jim Crowe (sic) laws,” Nickerson said.

He complains it’s unfair because the police haven’t arrested any heterosexual couples having sex in the restrooms. He says this proves discrimination. I think it’s maybe because straights don’t generally do that sort of thing in there, y’ think? (And if they do, they should also be arrested. Go to a Motel 6, y’cheap bastards.)

Another gay activist says, (paraphrasing) “We’re here, we’re queer, we want to have sex in public, deal with it.”

“Arresting people does not change anything. But to have a dialogue and discussion about ‘OK, we have two different kinds of people using the same space. What are we going to do about that?’” she said.

Yup, little kids using the baseball field and gay dudes having sex in the toilets… exactly morally equal.

Gay culture is disgusting.

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President Obama’s Safe School Czar could not be reached for comment.

H/T Steve

Comments

  2. Towleroad ,a gay news site run by a guy whose last name is Towle, had dozens of people defending Bath Houses as “safe spaces” in an article’s comments the other week when an Austin TX bath house closed.

  3. So these guys are just animals – just let nature take its course whenever and where ever the urge strikes.

    Just as we’re supposed to accept that bio-males and females can use whatever public restroom suits their mood, we’re now supposed to accept a couple of dudes having a go at it.

    At what point does one’s “right” to public sex infringe on the right of someone to use the restroom without being subjected to a sex show?

    This is one reason we have so many laws and regulations. When people no longer have the common sense and decency to regulate their own behavior, society attempts to impose common sense and decency. It’s a futile effort.

    The cry used to be “what one or more consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is no one else’s business” has morphed in to “what one or more consenting adults do outside the privacy of their bedroom WILL be your business whether you like it or not; whether or not you’re an adult or not.”

  4. Not sure where all the public sex advocacy comments in the post came from, since they aren’t in the KPIX story provided by the link. A better, more nuanced story can be found in the Los Angeles Times from April, which details Mr Nickerson’s efforts to clear a man in Long Beach arrested for a similar offense:

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gay-sex-stings-police-discriminatory-20160429-story.html

    And a follow-up regarding the class action suit against the City of Long Beach from June:
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-long-beach-class-action-20160624-snap-story.html

    And a historical record of public sex police stings in California:
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-gay-stings-police-20160527-snap-story.html

    While I can understand the outrage over those who think that it’s a ‘right’ to have coital relations in public places, most of what the lawsuits are attempting to curb is the lazy tendency for law enforcement to make some easy arrests in order to improve their crime response stats and show the citizenry that they are “cleaning up the area”—even when there are no complaints and few signs of an actual problem. Couple that with a good part of law enforcement which still holds antigay attitudes and you have a winning solution to low enforcement/arrest stats that doesn’t get opposition because it deals with those people.

    Many, if not most of these cases aren’t about the George Michaels of the world who are carnal thrill seekers or exhibitionists seeking official validation. I would contend that in the 21st century, the last two types are about the only ones who inhabit traditional tearooms or public parks looking for human contact. If that is the case, then formal organized stings should be a thing of the past. While Mr Moroney of Long Beach admits he responded to the undercover officer’s overtures, he was also charged with ‘indecent exposure’. I don’t know what that particular statute or ordinance says, but in most cases, one can’t legally commit indecent exposure in a locale where a fair amount of bodily exposure is to be expected. In the case of the Long Beach Police Department, they lied about the amount of complaints they received regarding the park in question (which were zero) and the amount of children present during the stings (also zero).

    Contrary to some of the comments on the LA Times stories, public sex encounters are not always ‘victimless crimes’. But good and effective law enforcement will control the out-of-control cases without attempting to make an entire class of people out to be potential predators waiting for the right opportunity.

  7. #5 Maybe he isn’t posting because he was arrested.

    I used to be a travel temp. There are several gay communities that graveyard sex happens every weekend, in graveyards near bars. I was surprised anyone would prefer that to going back to a furnished apartment with a shower.

    STR8 people do get arrested but its usually framed as Johns looking for hookers.

  12. “Gay rights lawyer says arresting gay men for having public sex near a little league field is “the gay equivalent of Jim Crow Laws.””

    “The government has no business poking its nose in our bed-room … and the whole world is our bed-room”