The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence / Alex Bitterman, Daniel Daldwin Hess, editors.
Hess, Daniel Baldwin, editor.; Bitterman, Alex, editor.
2021
HQ76.25
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Title The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence / Alex Bitterman, Daniel Daldwin Hess, editors.
ISBN 9783030660734 (electronic bk.)
3030660737 (electronic bk.)
9783030660727 (print)
3030660729
9783030660741 (print)
3030660745
9783030660758 (print)
3030660753
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 427 pages) : ilustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4 doi
Call Number HQ76.25
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.766
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 differencesbetween Baby Boom pioneers and Millennials who favour broad inclusivitysignaling 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 disciplinesincluding sociology, social work, anthropology, gender and sexuality, LGTBQ+ and queer studies, as well as urban geography, architecture, and city planningand to policymakers and advocates concerned with LGBTQ+ rights and social justice.
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Source of Description PDF version, viewed on March 29, 2021.
Added Author Hess, Daniel Baldwin, editor.
Bitterman, Alex, editor.
Series Urban book series.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030660727
Print version: 9783030660741
Print version: 9783030660758
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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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