The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence

The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence / Alex Bitterman, Daniel Daldwin Hess, editors.

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 20...

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Other Authors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin (Editor), Bitterman, Alex (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Series:Urban book series.
Subjects:
Gay community.
Gay culture.
City and town life.
Sexual minorities.
LGBTQ+.
Regional & area planning.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Agricultural economics.
City and town life
Gay community
Gay culture
Sexual minorities
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Who are the people in your gayborhood? Understanding population change and cultural shifts in LGBTQ+ neighborhoods
  • Part II: Context and composition
  • Breaking down segregation: Shifting geographies of male same-sex households within desegregating cities
  • A queer reading of the United States census
  • Why gayborhoods matter: The street empirics of urban sexualities
  • Part III: Identity and evolution
  • The rainbow connection: A time-series study of rainbow flag display across nine Toronto neighborhoods
  • Wearing pink in Fairytown: The heterosexualization of the Spanish town neighborhood and carnival parade in Baton rouge
  • A tale of three villages: Contested discourses of place-making in Central Philadelphia
  • Are Gay and Queer-friendly" neighbourhoods healthy? Assessing how areas with high densities of same-sex couples impact the mental health of sexual minority and majority young adults.

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