The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods Renaissance and Resurgence
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
| Series: | The Urban Book Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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