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Boystown : sex & community in Chicago / Jason Orne ; photographs by Dylan Stuckey.
LIBRA HQ76.3.U52 I4466 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orne, Jay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay community--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gay community.
- Gay culture--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gay culture.
- Gay men--Illinois--Chicago--Social life and customs.
- Gay men.
- Gay bars--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gay bars.
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Sex.
- Social aspects.
- Manners and customs.
- Lakeview (Chicago, Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- In Boystown, Orne takes readers on a detailed, lively journey through Chicago's Boystown, which serves as a model for gayborhoods around the country. The neighborhood, he argues, has become an entertainment district-a gay Disneyland-where people get lost in the magic of the night and where straight white women can "go on safari." In their original form, though, gayborhoods like this one don't celebrate differences; they create them. By fostering a space outside the mainstream, gay spaces allow people to develop an alternative culture-a queer culture that celebrates sex. Orne spent three years doing fieldwork in Boystown, searching for ways to ask new questions about the connective power of sex and about what it means to be not just gay, but queer. The result is the striking Boystown, illustrated throughout with street photography by Dylan Stuckey. In the dark backrooms of raunchy clubs where bachelorettes wouldn't dare tread, people are hooking up and forging "naked intimacy." Orne is your tour guide to the real Boystown, then, where sex functions as a vital center and an antidote to assimilation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Nightfall
- On safari
- Naked intimacy
- Sexy community
- Sexual racism
- New, now, next, not
- Midnight
- Gay Disneyland
- Becoming gay
- One of the good gays
- Straight to Halsted
- Girlstown
- Take back boystown
- Queer is community
- Dawn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226413259
- 022641325X
- 9780226413396
- 022641339X
- OCLC:
- 944087656
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