Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Park Slope and the Marais?
1 Becoming Gayfriendly
Reticence, recognition, indifference: three different generations
'It simply didn't exist'
'It would be uncool to be un-gayfriendly'
'A non-issue'
The learning processes
Atypical heterosexuals
The ordeal of coming out
2 Gay Respectabilities
The right to love each other American style and sexual freedom in France
The power of the law
Sexual liberalism
Gay marriage, heterosexual relief

Republican universalism and the difference between the sexes
Good neighbours, good husbands and wives, good parents
Appropriating an area in the name of diversity
Progressive synagogues and churches in Park Slope
A cause for gentrifiers
From lesbian enclave to gayfriendly district
Family integration, class integration
Gayfriendliness within the family
You shall be gayfriendly, my child
Integration and surveillance of same-sex families
You will (perhaps) be gay, my child
The guide for gayfriendly parents
From tomboy to invisible lesbian

3 Heterosexual Women as Allies
Feminine compassion
The division of moral labour
Male unease
The 'cruisers' of the Parisian night scene
The 'fag hag' and her 'gay best friend'
Disillusions, safe haven and substitute
The prism of femininity
Gayfriendliness and lesbophobia
Women rebelling against marriage
(Re)building your life when living alone
Sexual experiments
4 The Frontiers of Gayfriendliness
A race and class norm
Homophobia as a sign of bad taste
Talking about space, not race
The American South as a deterrent
Visibilities and invisibilities

Keeping the streets clean
The rejection of communitarianism and enforced discretion
An unnecessary mobilization
My gay friends
'It's cool'
Good friends
Where friendships thrive
The home of heterosexuality
Gay proselytizer and gay expert
Private (homo)sexuality
Conclusion
Banal homosexuality
New normalities
An equality still out of reach
Notes