State bill drafted to abolish City of Key West

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5. Pushback on the Cruise Ship ban and the strong LGBTQ community

Yep, Floriduh men have to be backing this bill.

Key West would have become a backwater fishing village after most of the Navy left in the 1970s were it not for the the LGBTQ community coming in and helping to renovate Old Town and transforming Key West into the vacation spot it is today.

I grew up in Key West in the 1970s and 1980s as a Navy kid, so I had a first hand look at how the city was transformed. In the 1970s you could buy a Conch house in Old Town for about $10,000 (they are now valued in the millions even if they're not in top shape).