The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods : Renaissance and Resurgence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bitterman, Alex.

Contributor:

Hess, Daniel Baldwin.

Series:

The Urban Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Place of Publication:

Springer Nature 2021

Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay neighborhoods. Social and cultural shifts within gay neighborhoods are used as a framework for understanding the decades-long struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and equality. Resulting from gentrification, weakening social stigma, and enhanced rights for LGBTQ+ people, gay neighborhoods have recently become “less gay,” following a 50-year period of resilience. Meanwhile, other neighborhoods are becoming “more gay,” due to changing preferences of LGBTQ+ individuals and a propensity for LGBTQ+ families to form community in areas away from established gayborhoods. The current ‘plateau’ in the evolution of gay neighborhoods is characterized by generational differences—between Baby Boom pioneers and Millennials who favour broad inclusivity—signaling various possible trajectories for the future ‘afterlife’ of these important LGBTQ+ urban spaces. The complicating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of comparison for lessons learned from gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ community that bravely endured the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines—including sociology, social work, anthropology, gender and sexuality, LGTBQ+ and queer studies, as well as urban geography, architecture, and city planning—and to policymakers and advocates concerned with LGBTQ+ rights and social justice.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Preface

References

Contents

Editors and Contributors

About the Editors

Contributors

Part IIntroduction

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

1.1 Introduction: Beneath the Crowded LGBTQ+ Umbrella

1.2 Nomenclature: Everyone Belongs

1.3 The Other: Refuge and Refusal to Change

1.4 Marginal to Memorable: The Evolution of Gay Neighborhoods

1.4.1 The First Great Plateau

1.5 Empirical Plan for This Book

1.5.1 A Note Regarding Limitations

1.6 Takeaway Messages

1.7 Conclusion: Resurgence and Renaissance

Part IIContext and Composition

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

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Data and Methods

2.2.1 Decennial Census Data

2.2.2 Segregation Scores

2.2.3 Gay Neighborhoods

2.2.4 Other Neighborhood Characteristics

2.2.5 Analysis

2.3 Results

2.3.1 Trends in Segregation and Neighborhood Change

2.3.2 Characteristics of Neighborhoods Within Desegregating Cities

2.3.3 Increasingly Segregated Cities

2.4 The Demographic Future of Gay Neighborhoods

2.5 Future Research: Census 2020 and Beyond

3 A Queer Reading of the United States Census

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Heteronormativity and Urban Development

3.3 The Census, Heteronormativity, and LGBTQ Populations

3.4 A Queer Reading of the Census

3.5 Testing the Variables in Four Neighborhoods

3.6 Non-family Household Results

3.7 Never Married by Sex Results

3.8 Divorced by Sex Results

3.9 Sex Ratio of Age 25-54 Cohort Results

3.10 Discussion

3.11 Comparison to Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data

3.12 Conclusion

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

4.1 Introduction: Gayborhood Studies

4.2 Why Do You Live in the Gayborhood?

4.3 Conclusions

Part IIIIdentity and Evolution

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

5.1 Rainbow Flag: Visibility, Implication, and Meaning

5.2 A Capsule History of the Rainbow Flag

5.3 The Rainbow Flag as Place Brand for Gay Neighborhoods

5.4 The Power of Graphics in the Built Environment

5.5 Concentration and Persistence of Rainbow Flags Define Boundaries of Gay Neighborhoods

5.6 Empirical Plan for the Visual Assessment of Rainbow Flag Display

5.7 Observations and Findings

5.8 Diaspora as Practical Identity

5.9 Rainbow Proliferation: Synthesis and Conclusions

5.10 Takeaway Messages

Sources

6 Wearing Pink in Fairy Town: The Heterosexualization of the Spanish Town Neighborhood and Carnival Parade in Baton Rouge

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Consuming Gay Culture

6.3 Baton Rouge Mardi Gras and the Spanish Town Parade

6.4 Methods

6.5 The Bohemian 1980s in Spanish Town

6.6 Spanish Town Parades as Part of Gay Cultural History in Baton Rouge

6.7 Homophobia and Queer Culture in the Contemporary Parade

7 A Tale of Three Villages: Contested Discourses of Place-Making in Central Philadelphia

7.1 Background

7.2 The Space in Question

7.2.1 Gayborhood

7.2.2 Washington Square West

7.2.3 Midtown Village

7.3 Discursive Moments

7.3.1 Snapshots from the Gayborhood

7.3.2 The Skeleton of Washington West

7.3.3 Welcome to Midtown Village

7.4 Further Directions

7.5 Conclusion

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

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Background

8.3 Method

8.4 Results

8.5 Discussion

8.6 Limitations and Conclusion

Part IVCo-Relation and Dialectic

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

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Situating Sexualities, Cities, and Technologies

9.3 Location-Based Dating Apps and Their Hybrid Queer Spaces

9.4 The Ambiguous Impact of Location-Based Media on Existing Gayborhoods

9.5 Conclusion: Space for Co-Existence?

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

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The Emergence of a Gay Bar Culture in Antwerp

10.3 The Paradigmatic Case History of Café Strange in the Central Station Area

10.4 The Decline of Gay Bar Life in Antwerp

11 Recovering the Gay Village: A Comparative Historical Geography of Urban Change and Planning in Toronto and Sydney

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Historical Geographies of Gay Villages: Segregation and Integration

11.3 Historical Geographies of Sexuality in Toronto

11.3.1 A Nascent Gay Village: Toronto in the 1970s

11.3.2 Neoliberalism and Toronto's Gay Village

11.3.3 Toronto's Village Today

11.4 Historical Geographies of Sexuality in Sydney

11.4.1 Consolidation of a Gay Neighborhood: Sydney in the 1970s to the 1990s

11.4.2 An End to Village Life in Sydney?

11.5 Thoughts on Historical Legacies and the Future of the Gay Village

11.6 Concluding Remarks: Wider Implications for Urban Planning and Policy

12 After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces: Learning from Atlanta and Istanbul

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

12.3 Midtown, Atlanta

12.3.1 Centripetal Forces in the Atlanta Case

12.3.2 Centrifugal Forces in the Atlanta Case

12.4 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey.

12.4.1 Centripetal Forces in the Istanbul Case

12.4.2 Centrifugal Forces in the Istanbul Case

12.5 Discussion

Part VSignifiying Meaning and Memory Across Generations

13 Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generation in Montréal's Mile End

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Methodology

13.3 Generation Queer

13.4 Divergent LGBTQ Urbanisms

13.4.1 The Gay Village

13.4.2 Queer Mile End

13.5 Conclusion

14 Understanding Generation Gaps in LGBTQ+ Communities: Perspectives About Gay Neighborhoods Among Heteronormative and Homonormative Generational Cohorts

14.1 Introduction

14.2 A Brief Overview of Generational Cohorts

14.3 The Contemporary Heteronormative Saeculum and Events that Shaped the World

14.4 Exploring LGBTQ+ Generations: Through the Eyes of Warhol, Vidal, Capote &amp

Hudson

14.5 The Homonormative Saeculum and the Events that Shaped a Century of LGBTQ+ Culture

14.6 The Intersection of LGBTQ+ Generational Cohorts and Gay Neighborhoods

14.7 Future Possibilities for Gay Neighborhoods

14.8 Synthesis and Conclusion: Connections for LGBTQ+ People Across Generational Cohorts

14.9 Takeaway Messages

15 Commemorating Historically Significant Gay Places Across the United States

15.1 Generations of Gay History

15.1.1 Violence and Commemoration

15.2 Significant LGBTQ+ Sites

15.2.1 LGBTQ+ Heritage Initiative

15.2.2 Protecting American LGBTQ+ Heritage

15.2.3 Aim of Landmarks Dedication

15.2.4 Initial Results of the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative

15.3 Current Status of the Preservation of LGBTQ+ Sites

15.3.1 Constancy of Application

15.4 The Future of Preserving the Past

15.5 Takeaway Messages

16 Plateaus and Afterglows: Theorizing the Afterlives of Gayborhoods as Post-Places

16.1 Introduction.

16.2 The Phenomenology of Place

16.3 Post-Phenomenological Perspectives

16.4 Plateaus and Afterglows

16.5 Post-Placing Gayborhoods

16.6 Conclusion: Beyond the Gayborhood in Space, Time, and Scholarship?

Part VI Epilogue

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

17.1 Introduction: Once More, Without Human Contact?

17.2 Do Places Matter? Empirical Trends for the Future of LGBTQ+ Spaces

17.3 Concluding Remarks: Beyond the Master Metaphor of the Gayborhood?

Index.

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ISBN:

3-030-66073-7

OCLC:

1243531705