The gentlemen of Dolores Park's Gay Beach can pee easy today following a San Francisco Superior Court judge's ruling that the barely controversial pissoir can remain perched atop the southwest corner of the park. Mission Local reports that Judge Harold Kahn rejected the claim of an anti-gay group suing the city, saying the pissoir didn't break any of the laws the suit alleged.
“Plaintiffs have failed to allege any claim for which they would be entitled to the relief they seek,” wrote the judge.
The plaintiffs, Mission Local explains, are actually the San Francisco Chinese Christian Union. However, the law firm bringing the suit on the SFCCU's behalf is the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute. The Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed the PJI an "active anti-LGBT group," which only partially helps to explain why a law firm might get upset about men peeing outside in a designated area.
"It's a human regression of mankind," Frank Lee of the Pacific Justice Institute told the LA Times back in February when the group first threatened a lawsuit. "If this is not stopped, this will become the norm in San Francisco and spread to other cities."
The main concern seemed to be that passersby, perhaps on the J train, might accidentally see a penis — a fear which Kahn apparently found didn't merit the outside bathroom's removal. Which, considering the temperature this Saturday is predicted to hit 80 degrees — bringing hordes of Dolores Park partiers along with the sunshine — likely comes as a relief to the many sunbathers of Gay Beach.
Previously: Photo Du Jour: First Look At Dolores Park's New Pissoir
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