Rosemont Manor/ Our House on the Hill, W.VA

Once again, Joe Gallagher's LEATHERPAGE (http://www.leatherpage.com/) hooks me up.

Steve Lenius, writing in Lavender, ("Minnesota's GLBT magazine") has done a follow up on what's been happening to Rosemont Manor, a Kink/swinger/Leather/nudist/Queer friendly B&B and venue in West Virginia. No, not WVA down near VA, this is up in the panhandle, right along the Ohio river, almost due west of Pittsburgh, PA.

I know the area, and boy, do I ever know the media in that area. Steubenville, Ohio, by the way, is home not only to Dean Martin, but also one hell of a nest of Catholics, not the least of which being Franciscan University- a focal point in the Catholic Charismatic renewal movement.

Rosemont Manor has been forced to remove its website marketing to 'alternative communities', "our house on the hill" (OHOTH), but it's regular B&B site still remains active- http://www.rosemontmanor.com/

Anyhow, here are his two pieces on the ongoing hell Rosemont is being put through-

“Not in My Neighborhood!”
Small Town or Big City, Alternate Lifestyles Face Hostility from the Neighbors
-Steve Lenius, Lavender Magazine
http://www.lavendermagazine.com/archives/308/article_3966.php


Return to Rosemont Manor: Look, Ma! I’m a Zoning Violation!
-Steve Lenius, Lavender Magazine
http://www.lavendermagazine.com/artman/publish/article_4830.php

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (http://www.ncsfreedom.org/)has also included OHOTH in their media updates.

To get a feel for how twilight zone this begins to feel, though, you simply must turn to articles from the West Virgina Record, such as this- http://www.wvrecord.com/news/198090-judge-orders-stop-to-adult-activities-at-weirton-mansion
which is perhaps best summerized by a sentence fragment found within- "how to apply zoning law to a kinky Web site".