Beltway Area Indymedia

Councilmember Jim Graham's bill to allow the Gay clubs the stadium closed to reopen in and Ivy City warehouse district is in trouble. Ward 5 councilmember Harry Thomas is trying to gut the bill, saying he fears the clubs will repel development.

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Most of the about 50 community residents at an earlier hearing on the bill who opposed it used frankly homophobic arguments. The real question is, who's bankrolling this campaign to stop the gay clubs?