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"They're all out with their radios," Jeffries said, "and they're just hip-hopping all over the street....

Bob Kohler, 80, a gay rights advocate who has lived in the West Village for 60 years, said the discrimination young people face in the West Village is no different from decades ago when gays could not hold hands in public. He said his neighbors simply "don't want black faces on Christopher Street."

A new generation in the West Village
For decades, this neighborhood has welcomed gays of all backgrounds, but now old-timers are finding young people from the hip-hop era too disruptive. The kids say this is the only place they can be themselves
By Erika Hayasaki
Times Staff Writer
May 18, 2007