We were given a lemon and we made lemonade. [These businesses] are part and parcel of the gay life in this whole metropolitan area.

On a one-time basis for these O Street establishments, they should be exempted from all of these restrictions so they can move as a group if they want to some practical place.

As I have been saying for nearly a year, the law needs to be changed to allow the gay businesses to move to another part of the city.

When it was even seriously entertained that this would be a zoning issue, I blew up. Absolutely not.