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Contents:
- THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT
- GAY FORT LRDALE
- “THE WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD IS BEG GAY!” REFLECTNS ON THE EFFECTS OF GEOLOTED DATG APPS ON THE PRACTICE AND PERCEPTN OF THE URBAN SPACE OF GAY MEN MAJOR FRENCH CI
- WHO ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR GAYBORHOOD? UNRSTANDG POPULATN CHANGE AND CULTURAL SHIFTS LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODS
- ARE “GAY” AND “QUEER-FRIENDLY” NEIGHBORHOODS HEALTHY? ASSSG HOW AREAS WH HIGH DENSI OF SAME-SEX COUPL IMPACT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF SEXUAL MORY AND MAJORY YOUNG ADULTS
- MOVG TO LGBT HALIFAX, CANADA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT
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Affluent and unhampered by children – or so the myth go – this group is always the g vanguard of gentrifyg areas, pricg out long-term lols and leavg behd a trail of look-but-don’t-touch furnure shops and overpriced are urban gay people who are watchg their stutns and neighbourhoods disappear merely reapg what they sowed?
The muny anisatn LGBT Detro has been tryg to enurage the (unofficial) foundg of a gay village the cy, as a way of providg more solidary and support for a muny that’s weaker for beg geographilly the anisatn’s director Curtis Lipsb explas: “We had a few areas where LGBT people moved to after the send world war, but they lasted only until the last major whe flight, when a large number of whe gays and lbians moved to the northern suburbs.
GAY FORT LRDALE
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This visibily of gay men everyday life is one of the reasons why Joel Simkhai, the creator of Grdr, veloped the applitn: “Grdr, fs your pocket, you n e by walkg, at the rtrant, at the gym, when you go abroad, on the b, when you que a shop, when you go to a ncert, ” he explaed an terview given to the French magaze Miroir/Mirroirs 2013, before addg that “Grdr acpani you everyday life and that is what mak the difference. Even if is hard to measure the phenomenon, fake profil are very mon: the creatn of a profile often only requir an email addrs, and is que possible for the same person to create several ’s e, and more generally datg applitns, strongly renfigure homosexual spatiali, by partng the visibily of homosexualy om the historil centrali that have bee gay neighbourhoods and muny plac, and by allowg enunters everywhere, at least theory.
“THE WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD IS BEG GAY!” REFLECTNS ON THE EFFECTS OF GEOLOTED DATG APPS ON THE PRACTICE AND PERCEPTN OF THE URBAN SPACE OF GAY MEN MAJOR FRENCH CI
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The succs of Grdr-type applitns among gays, and their failure wh lbians, is th partly explaed by relatnships to genred and asymmetril productn of hybrid spatiali th appears strongt for datg apps siar to Grdr, and the most nsely populated plac, that is, the large metropolis where populatn nsi and nnectns only require participants to go a few hundred meters to pletely renew the profil displayed. Ghaziani, however, qualifi the ia of a cle of gay neighbourhoods and shows that their centraly, though seemgly weakened, remas pable, both mds and dividual applitns have unniably accelerated the diversifitn dynamics as they -terrorialise the ma functn of muny plac which was to form safe spac nducive to teractns between homosexual dividuals (Miller, 2015).
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR GAYBORHOOD? UNRSTANDG POPULATN CHANGE AND CULTURAL SHIFTS LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODS
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Even if the Marais has been affected by the same dynamics of the apparent cle gay neighbourhoods as elsewhere, remas the richt area LGBT bs, both Paris and the relative discretn of homosexual life the provc and the ntrastg valy of the Marais, g to Paris to live one’s homosexualy is a stcturg element of the gay imagary France. This ia of “pockets of gay time/space” is que siar to what Grdr produc nsely populated spac and helps to unrstand the enthiasm of many men for the app, as explaed by Richard, for example, rememberg when he disvered the app: “I knew when Grdr was lnched, and by the way, was a b revolutnary, I remember, and I already had a smartphone so I found credibly fantastic.
ARE “GAY” AND “QUEER-FRIENDLY” NEIGHBORHOODS HEALTHY? ASSSG HOW AREAS WH HIGH DENSI OF SAME-SEX COUPL IMPACT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF SEXUAL MORY AND MAJORY YOUNG ADULTS
This chapter foc on the effects of gay datg apps on queer spatiali major ci. Applitns such as Grdr, Scff and Hor strongly renfigure gay spatiali, partng the visibily of homosexualy om s historil centrali and... * the neighbourhood gay *
In many ways, the revelatn of urban -prence among applitn ers seems to create a bubble of homosexualy around them, dimishg the sense of lonels associated wh the visibily of sexual mori on a daily addn, there is a greater nnectn between plac equented daily or regularly and the geography of datg.
MOVG TO LGBT HALIFAX, CANADA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
Gay neighborhoods, like all neighborhoods, are a state of ntual change. The relevance of gay neighborhoods—origally formed to promote segregatn of dividuals who intify as sexual mori—is lately challenged by advanc technology,... * the neighbourhood gay *
The management of geolotn by dividuals th reveals the renfiguratn of junctns to visibily, stcturg the trajectori of lkage between everyday spac and the experience of homosexualy that applitns perm giv rise to multiple forms of negotiatn the way of makg onelf visible on the virtual terface.
(Photo by the thor 2021)Full size imageThe e of applitns spac is already strongly nducive to gay socialisg; provis even greater potential for dat by offerg new channels of teractn wh the spac, as shown by ethnographic works muny settgs (Stempfhuber & Liegl, 2016; Vorobjovas-Pta & Dalla-Fontana, 2019).
Bdette nducted a long ethnographic survey Tokyo’s historic gay neighbourhood and found that the tensive e of applitns and social works bars and clubs, for the young men he met and terviewed, helps to make the Ni-Chome district “both a physil ‘gay town’ and an ‘imagary’ affective space” (Bdette, 2019: 102). Apart om intifyg as LGBTQ+, a high-e Black female cis-genred lbian, for example, her journey to unrstand and exprs her own sexual orientatn, may have ltle mon wh a middle-e gay genr-queer Asian male who both may have ltle mon wh a middle-age Whe genr-nonnformg trans dividual quietly explorg bisexualy at mid-life. It is the differenc that fuel a grassroots mobilizatn among LGBTQ+ people to persevere through adversy; gay neighborhoods th serve as cubators for empowerment and social change and serve as home base for social movements and the fight for equaly that ultimately benefs every rner of society.
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1(Source Image urty of William Ivancic)In Chigo and other ci, rints of gay neighborhoods adapt to COVID-19 guil cludg mask wearg and spatial distancgFull size image2 Nomenclature: Everyone BelongsThe semantics of “gay” have changed over time and the chang reflect shifts attu and shifts the evolutn of mastream perceptn. In this ve, although many gay neighborhoods were historilly anchored by a populatn of gay cis men (Chncey 2008; Podmore 2021), we nsir a “gay” neighborhood to be urban space wh some gree of tolerance clive of gay men, lbian women, trans+ dividuals, tersex dividuals, qutng dividuals, and var other sexual among like-md people, LGBTQ+ rints sought llective secury to addrs their feelgs of disenanchisement and safeguard agast opprsn manifted hostily and vlence (Lria and Knopp 1985). Throughout this chapter and this book, we nsir a neighborhood to be a basic buildg block of a cy (Forsyth 2001), and for nvenience we terchangeably e the terms “gayborhood, ” “gay neighborhood, ” “gay enclave, ” “gay district, ” “gay village” and “LGBTQ+ neighborhood”; we acknowledge the limatns of the labels.