Safe space : gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence / Christina B. Hanhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanhardt, Christina B., author.

Series:

Perverse modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay liberation movement--New York (State)--New York.

Gay liberation movement--California--San Francisco.

Gentrification--New York (State)--New York.

Gentrification--California--San Francisco.

Community policing--New York (State)--New York.

Community policing--California--San Francisco.

Community policing.

Gay liberation movement.

Gentrification.

California--San Francisco.

New York (State)--New York.

Förenta staterna--New York (stat)--New York (stad).

Förenta staterna--Kalifornien--San Fransisco.

Local Subjects:

Förenta staterna--New York (stat)--New York (stad).

Förenta staterna--Kalifornien--San Fransisco.

Physical Description:

xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

"Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

"The white ghetto" : sexual deviancy, police accountability, and the 1960s war on poverty

Butterflies, whistles, and fists: safe streets patrols and militant gay liberalism in the 1970s

"Count the contradictions" : Challenges to gay gentrification at the start of the Reagan era

Visibility and victimization: hate crime laws and the geography of punishment, 1980s and 1990s

"Canaries of the creative age" : Queer critiques of risk and real estate in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index.

Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Studies, Winner, 2014

Other Format:

Online version: Hanhardt, Christina B. Safe space

ISBN:

9780822354574

0822354578

9780822354703

0822354705

OCLC:

840465302