# Would you live on Gay Street? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406 "2004-08-11T19:40:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/61 "2004-08-13T07:43:31Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I live on Gay island. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Spare a thought for buns3000 - relocates interstate, gets new licence plate for car… 3-letter section of plate? RIM. 3 years later and I’m still copping the jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/62 "2004-08-13T11:23:01Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > “In the town of Alamo, CA, the residents living on a street named ‘Gay Court’ were so embarrassed that they changed the name to ‘High Eagle Court.’ I guess ‘Homophobic Idiot Boulevard’ was already taken.” > > - Danny Williams It would be fun to mess with those people and address their mail to “Stoned Eagle Court”. I wouldn’t have a problem living on Gay Street. Three letters, sure beats Kosciuzko Street or other similarly long and difficult-to-spell street names. Of course, I grew up on Grubb Avenue, so I’m pretty immune to feeling shame over a street name. Local town has a major street called King George The Fifth Jubilee Avenue, and also a minor street called King Avenue. Whose bright idea was that? Pizza delivery guys always go to the big street first. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/63 "2004-08-13T17:14:32Z")
> [@Grasshopper](#): > > I still cannot believe there was a Butt Hole Road - eeew! Yeah, but think of the surfing! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/64 "2004-08-14T01:57:45Z")
Fresh from the Memory Stick [sup]tm[/sup], I present [Felch Street](http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10927&size=big&sort=1&cat=527) in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Orange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@Fiona\_Orange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Orange)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/65 "2004-08-14T01:59:16Z")
The road leading to my old high school was called “Gay Way.” High schoolers and “Gay Way” didn’t mix well–that sign was stolen at least once a month. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/66 "2004-08-14T02:19:28Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Grew up on **Highland** Drive. Hey! _I_ grew up on Highland Drive! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/67 "2004-08-14T20:00:55Z")
C’mon … nothing on Felch Street? ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/68 "2004-08-14T23:57:59Z")
Would I live on Gay St.? Sure, but only if it were located in Sodom, Connecticut, or, for that matter, in Maine, Ohio, West Virginia, Vermont, or New York! The Sodom in Ohio has a Tibbetts Wick Rd, but the others have no streetnames that are even remotely amusing. Pity. I do wonder what goes on, however, at the Henry Van Motel on Sodom Road in NY. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/69 "2004-08-15T06:12:23Z")
There’s a Felch Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, too. I live only a few blocks from Paulina! OMG GOD! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/70 "2004-08-15T18:03:56Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > OMG GOD! Is that like ‘gotcha ya’? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/71 "2004-08-15T18:15:21Z")
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Gay St? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/72 "2004-08-15T18:56:21Z")
> [@moi](#): > > Really? I used to live on Paulina!! 😃 I’ve had a lot of “small world” moments on the Dope, but this one might be my favorite. It’s been ages since I’ve been to Chicago, so it’s likely we lived in entirely different parts of the city, but I still got a kick out of seeing the Paulina name! > > Back **on** topic: > I’d probably live on every street mentioned, but the one I just _couldn’t_ bear would be Tobacco Road. > > And, no, I’m not some crazy anti-smoking person; it’s just a literary reference that would _creep_ me out. I googled Tobacco Road and couldn’t find anything except smoking websites. Can you please enlighten me on this? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/73 "2004-08-15T19:14:17Z")
[Here ya go](http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-521), **fetus**. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/74 "2004-08-15T19:37:09Z")
Gay Street might be accptable, but how about [Crotch Crescent](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=453073&y=207698&z=1&sv=crotch+crescent&st=6&tl=Crotch+Crescent,+Marston,+Oxford,+OX3&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf)? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/75 "2004-08-15T19:54:56Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > [Here ya go](http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-521), **fetus**. Interesting. Thanks for the link. I would live on any of the streets mentioned, except for the particularly vulgar British ones like Butt Hole Rd and the like. I wouldn’t live on Gay St if I planned to have children, for the same reason mentioned earlier–the relentless teasing they would undoubtedly endure. I wouldn’t have any problem living on such a street myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/76 "2004-08-16T04:09:23Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Is that like ‘gotcha ya’? Yeah. **Diane** (or maybe it was **Zette** , now I can’t remember) wrote that in a thread a while ago accidentally. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/77 "2004-08-16T06:47:39Z")
I’m not sure how true it is, but I’ve heard that a lot of the roads around here were named whatever the people who paid for their creation wanted them to be called. That makes me wonder about Small Paul road in Dover. Named after someone’s little boy, or someone’s little ex? 😛 I’d probably live on Gay road. Like someone else said, I’d be so happy to be able to buy a house I wouldn’t care about the name. Old streets I lived on make me wonder how many of them are going to end up as yuppie baby names in ten years: Packard, Kendall (which I actually like as a girl’s name), Batchelder, Highland (ave), US Route \_\_\_… ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406/78 "2004-08-17T14:01:53Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I googled Tobacco Road and couldn’t find anything except smoking websites. Can you please enlighten me on this? Though I’m not surprised at the link **Larry Mudd** turned up, the reference for me comes from David Payne’s [_Early From the Dance_](http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/early_from_the_dance.html). The main female character, Jane McCrae, reflects throughout the book on a young woman who was murdered and buried in a field on Tobacco Road. To me, this aspect of the books, has always been a creepy exploration of the Mister-Goodbar-esque theme of a woman being punished for not following society’s mores. It’s just not a thought I’d want crossing my mind everytime I thought of my home. BTW, for anyone interested, Payne’s book is great, and I highly recommend it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-gay-street/259406.md?page=3)