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The Gayborhood : From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities--United States.
- Communities.
- Gay people--United States.
- Gay people.
- Neighborhoods--United States.
- Neighborhoods.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Gayborhood
- The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Whose Culture, Whose Community?
- Post-Gay
- The Queer Digital Frontier
- Organization of the Book
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 1
- Performative Progressiveness
- Attitudes, Actions, and Placemaking
- Research Design and Data
- Results
- Conclusions: Inequality in the Gayborhood
- Chapter 2
- Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife
- Homonormativity Taking Place
- Observing the Erotics of Stylistic Practices
- The Decline of Stylistic Diversity in San Francisco's Gay Nightlife Districts
- Resisting Homonormativity
- Conclusion
- Epilogue 2020
- Chapter 3
- Gayborhoods as Criminogenic Space
- Criminogenic Space: A Contested Concept
- Experiencing Victimization in Gayborhoods: Becoming a Visible Target
- Gayborhoods as Defensible Space
- Gentrification and Gay Gathering Places
- Chapter 4
- Gay Collective Sex in New York City from the Late 1800s to Today
- Before Stonewall: Sexual Intimacy in Public
- Stonewall to Early 1980s: Collective Sex and Gay Liberation
- Onset of AIDS to Late 1990s: The Crackdown on Collective Sex
- Collective Sex in NYC Today: Fostering Collective Intimacy
- Conclusion: The Continued Relevance of Collective Intimacy
- Chapter 5
- Disappearing
- What Is the Gay Singleton?
- The Social Landscape of Gay Spaces: Exclusionary Locations?
- The Deviant, the Stranger: The "Invisible" Gay on the Gay Scene
- Chapter 6
- Erotic Capital and Queer Men of Color
- Literature Review
- Methods
- Race, Gym Bodies, and the LGBTQ Community
- Hypersexuality, Muscularity, and Leaning Out
- References.
- Chapter 7
- The Whiteness of Queer Urban Placemaking
- Queer Urbanism as a Way of (White) Life
- The Subtlety of Queer Place Making
- Deviance as Queer Place Making
- Presente! Presente!
- Chapter 8
- Beyond the Heteronormative Framework
- Social Construction of Normality: Theoretical Insights
- Strategies for Dealing with Stigma
- We Just Want to Be Seen as Normal
- Acting as a Group: Telling One Story
- Reinforcing Dominant Societal Norms: Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Passing and Covering
- The Importance of Informal Networks as Support Groups
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 9
- When the Gayborhood Isn't Enough
- Gayborhoods and Trans People
- Analysis and Discussion
- Chapter 10
- Gays under Glass
- Approach
- App Design and Identity Portrayal
- The Primacy of the Face
- Affection-Images
- Partial Objects and Overcoding
- Orientations through Affection-Images as Partial Objects
- Microfascisms
- Chapter 11
- Gayborhood Change
- Assimilation
- Boystown and Gentrification
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Note
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3366-6
- 1-7936-0984-5
- OCLC:
- 1243554110
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