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Gay only toilets

The decision by some samba schools in Rio de Janeiro to set aside toilets for gays and transvestites is being met with protests. Some call the schools’ move “carnival apartheid,” while others say they provide a safe area for gays and transvestites.
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I'm ambivalent. It could be, as the article says, seen as a discriminatory action or a protective one.

Sad you have to be protected from others because of who you love.
 
Sounds interesting. Can't read the article. Can't access it. Ill do a more general search for this info. Thanks.
 
Sounds like a damn fool idea.

Unless the stalls don't have doors. Then I suppose it makes sense...
 
I'll never forget the time I went on a long run through St Kilda (the highest gay population in Melbourne) when I had to go to a public toilet. Full of gays taking turns to look through a spy hole in the toilet. I was younger and fitter then and the guys moved aside to allow me to use the urinal. But I wished it was designated as a gay only toilet at the time.
 
I went to a public toilet in Munich one night, having been deliberately set up by a (female) friend with an evil sense of humour. Inside it was dark- all lights having been sabotaged-and crowded.
The regulars must have had some ability to recognise "genuine" toilet seekers as they did move to let me in. It really was that crowded- think London tube train. It was a funny joke on me, but also a bit sad that people had to meet in a place like that. I understand it was frequented by non-out men, many married and in "respectable" positions. The sort of guys who would be blackmailable I suppose.

A surreal experience.
 
MikeSun5 said:
It's not "discrimination" when the problem is taken in context.

Apparently they weren't mandated, they were requested.
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It seems that some of the reports are assuming that all transvestites are gay or identify themselves as being gay and that all transvestites are male, which is not the case.

I've actually seen the issue of transvestites and which toilet they "should" use in real life and it can get ugly so this sounds a way of trying to solve that problem. Whether it is the best solution I am unsure - personally I think a better solution would be to have all toilets "unisex" or set aside one toilet to be unisex.
 
lionking said:
I'll never forget the time I went on a long run through St Kilda (the highest gay population in Melbourne) when I had to go to a public toilet. Full of gays taking turns to look through a spy hole in the toilet. I was younger and fitter then and the guys moved aside to allow me to use the urinal. But I wished it was designated as a gay only toilet at the time.
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The solution to that problem is not "gay toilets" it is a society that does not stigmatise homosexuals and doesn't force people to conform to a very narrow definition of what is "normal". When I want to use a toilet I do not want sex. Thankfully, at least in the UK, with the changes in society such inappropriate cottaging is dying down.
 
Darat said:
The solution to that problem is not "gay toilets" it is a society that does not stigmatise homosexuals and doesn't force people to conform to a very narrow definition of what is "normal". When I want to use a toilet I do not want sex. Thankfully, at least in the UK, with the changes in society such inappropriate cottaging is dying down.
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The obvious solution is to have two bathrooms, one for normal use and one for sex.
 
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