The Gayborhood
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The Gayborhood

From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle

  1. 259 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Gayborhood

From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle

About this book

The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. Gay urban enclaves, known colloquially as gayborhoods, illustrate the evolution of LGBT+ political capacity building. Since their emergence after World War II, gayborhoods have homogenized at the expense of women, transgender, and nonwhite persons due to neoliberal policies promoted by urban planners. Thus, their popularization and economic vitality correlate with a loss of collective identity and space for some inhabitants. While gayborhoods were once diverse and inclusive spaces that rejected normative institutions of marriage and assimilation into dominant society, the stakeholders of these areas have now unashamedly aligned themselves with conformity and profitability to legitimize their existence. The contributors within The Gayborhood invite readers to reflect on the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods to the communities and aspirations within.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Gayborhood
  3. The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1
  9. Performative Progressiveness
  10. Chapter 2
  11. Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife
  12. Chapter 3
  13. Gayborhoods as Criminogenic Space
  14. Chapter 4
  15. Gay Collective Sex in New York City from the Late 1800s to Today
  16. Chapter 5
  17. Disappearing
  18. Chapter 6
  19. Erotic Capital and Queer Men of Color
  20. Chapter 7
  21. The Whiteness of Queer Urban Placemaking
  22. Chapter 8
  23. Beyond the Heteronormative Framework
  24. Chapter 9
  25. When the Gayborhood Isn’t Enough
  26. Chapter 10
  27. Gays under Glass
  28. Chapter 11
  29. Gayborhood Change
  30. Afterword
  31. Index
  32. About the Editors
  33. About the Contributors