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We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer individuals in four small cities across the United States.
Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new homes. How Places Make Us demonstrates that sexual identities are responsive to city ecology. Despite the fact that the LBQ residents share many demographic and cultural traits, their approaches to sexual identity politics and to ties with other LBQ individuals and heterosexual residents vary markedly by where they live. Subtly distinct local ecologies shape what it feels like to be a sexual minority, including the degree to which one feels accepted, how many other LBQ individuals one encounters in daily life, and how often a city declares its embrace of difference. In short, city ecology shapes how one "does" LBQ in a specific place. Ultimately, Brown-Saracino shows that there isn't one general way of approaching sexual identity because humans are not only social but fundamentally local creatures. Even in a globalized world, the most personal of questions—who am I?—is in fact answered collectively by the city in which we live.
Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new homes. How Places Make Us demonstrates that sexual identities are responsive to city ecology. Despite the fact that the LBQ residents share many demographic and cultural traits, their approaches to sexual identity politics and to ties with other LBQ individuals and heterosexual residents vary markedly by where they live. Subtly distinct local ecologies shape what it feels like to be a sexual minority, including the degree to which one feels accepted, how many other LBQ individuals one encounters in daily life, and how often a city declares its embrace of difference. In short, city ecology shapes how one "does" LBQ in a specific place. Ultimately, Brown-Saracino shows that there isn't one general way of approaching sexual identity because humans are not only social but fundamentally local creatures. Even in a globalized world, the most personal of questions—who am I?—is in fact answered collectively by the city in which we live.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2017Print ISBN
9780226361253, 9780226361116eBook ISBN
9780226361390Index
abundance and acceptance, 20, 122, 164, 175, 177–79, 193, 237–38, 240; city ecology, 14, 198, 203–8, 223; identity cultures, 20, 207, 212, 214; identity politics, 208; and place, 203–8; place narratives, 15, 208–9, 212
ACT-UP, 117
affinity community, 106, 138, 140–41, 144–47, 282n27, 282n28, 283n38; ambient community, difference between, 137; exclusivity of, 142–43
African Americans, 55–56, 138, 238, 247
ambient community, 18–19, 27–28, 51, 54–57, 82–83, 138, 146, 154, 160, 167, 169, 179–87, 193, 273n18, 276n52, 277n53, 277n55, 278n62, 278n70; affinity community, difference between, 137; city ecology, 52, 277n57; informal ties, 52–53; local ties, 58; and marginalization, 53; post-identity politics, 62–63, 89; shared sexual identity, 53; as term, 274n23; “we-feeling,” 277n54
Amherst (Massachusetts), 153, 158–59, 161–62, 176, 190
Anderson, Elijah, 128; cosmopolitan canopy, 276n52, 277n55, 277n57, 278n69
Arabica Coffee, 116
Art After Dark, 204
Asheville (North Carolina), 238
Atlanta (Georgia), 247
Bakersfield (California), 75
Berkeley (California), 22
Bible Belt, 99
Boston (Massachusetts), 1, 3, 51, 108, 155, 159, 181, 203, 206, 210, 212, 216, 242, 281n5, 281n6, 285n16, 287n2, 287n7; Irish Americans in, 290n45; Jamaica Plain, 12, 209
Boston Femme Show, 109
Boulder (Colorado), 78–79, 87, 132, 200
Boys Don’t Cry (movie), 177
Brattleboro (Vermont), 159
Brekhus, Wayne, 17, 271n53, 275n33, 276n45
Brint, Steven, 273n18, 277n53
Brooklyn (New York), 212, 216, 239, 285n16; Park Slope, 12–13, 199, 209, 243
Brown, Gavin, 271–72n54
Brubaker, Rogers, 17, 268n11
Buettner, Dan, 61
burlesque, 119
Butch Is a Noun (Bergman), 116
Butch Project, 125
Butler, Judith, 233–35, 237
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- ONE / Ithaca: Integration and Post-Identity Politics
- TWO / San Luis Obispo: Lesbian Identity Politics and Community
- THREE / Portland: Hybrid and Hyphenated Identity Politics
- FOUR / Greenfield: Lesbian Feminist Longtimers and Post-Identity-Politics Newcomers
- FIVE / How Places Make Us
- CONCLUSION
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index