The life and afterlife of gay neighbors : renaissance and resurgence / Alex Bitterman, Daniel Baldwin Hess.

Format:

Book

Series:

Urban book series

The urban book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay community.

Sexual minority community.

Sociology, Urban.

LGBTQ+ communities.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 427 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction

1. Who Are the People in Your Gayborhood? Understanding Population Change and Cultural Shifts in LGBTQ+ Neighborhoods / Alex Bitterman

pt. II Context and Composition

2. Breaking Down Segregation: Shifting Geographies of Male Same-Sex Households Within Desegregating Cities / Amy Spring

3. A Queer Reading of the United States Census / Michael Frisch

4. Why Gayborhoods Matter: The Street Empirics of Urban Sexualities / Amin Ghaziani

pt. III Identity and Evolution

5. The Rainbow Connection: A Time-Series Study of Rainbow Flag Display Across Nine Toronto Neighborhoods / Alex Bitterman

6. Wearing Pink in Fairy Town: The Heterosexualization of the Spanish Town Neighborhood and Carnival Parade in Baton Rouge / Amy L. Stone

7. A Tale of Three Villages: Contested Discourses of Place-Making in Central Philadelphia / Greg Niedt

8. Are "Gay" and "Queer-Friendly" Neighborhoods Healthy? Assessing How Areas with High Densities of Same-Sex Couples Impact the Mental Health of Sexual Minority and Majority Young Adults / Rick Braatz

pt. IV Co-Relation and Dialectic

9. Let's (not) Go Outside: Grindr, Hybrid Space, and Digital Queer Neighborhoods / Sam Miles

10. A Gay Neighborhood or Merely a Temporary Cluster of "Strange" Bars? Gay Bar Culture in Antwerp / Alexander Dhoest

11. Recovering the Gay Village: A Comparative Historical Geography of Urban Change and Planning in Toronto and Sydney / Catherine J. Nash

12. After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces: Learning from Atlanta and Istanbul / Ozlem Atalay

pt. V Signifiying Meaning and Memory Across Generations

13. Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generation in Montreal's Mile End / Julie A. Podmore

14. Understanding Generation Gaps in LGBTQ+ Communities: Perspectives About Gay Neighborhoods Among Heteronormative and Homonormative Generational Cohorts / Daniel Baldwin Hess

15. Commemorating Historically Significant Gay Places Across the United States / Alex Bitterman

16. Plateaus and Afterglows: Theorizing the Afterlives of Gayborhoods as Post-Places / Jack Coffin

pt. VI Epilogue

17. After/Lives: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Gay Neighborhoods / Alex Bitterman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030660727

3030660729

OCLC:

1222897777

Publisher Number:

99987875287