Contents:
- WHY GAYBORHOODS MATTER: THE STREET EMPIRICS OF URBAN SEXUALI
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- NEW BLM HEAD CICLEY GAY HAS FILED FOR PERSONAL BANKPTCY THREE TIM
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- ‘BROS,’ THE FIRST BIG-STUD R-RATED GAY ROM-, IS FOR EVERYONE
WHY GAYBORHOODS MATTER: THE STREET EMPIRICS OF URBAN SEXUALI
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Gut Edor (s): Alex Bterman17 and Daniel Baldw Hs1817Department of Archecture and Dign, Aled State Universy of New York, New York, USA 18Department of Urban and Regnal Planng, Universy at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA AbstractUrbanists have veloped an extensive set of proposns about why gay neighborhoods form, how they change, shifts their signifince, and their spatial exprsns. By shiftg the analytic gaze om abstract ncepts to teractns and embodied perceptns on the ground—a “street empirics” as I ll —I challenge the claim that gayborhoods as an urban form are outmod or obsolete.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
Keywords: Urban sexuali, Technology, Gay neighborhoods, LGBTQ+ safe spacIntroductn: Gayborhood StudiThe associatn between sexualy and the cy is as tablished experientially as is affirmed the amy—om sexologil unts of sexual practic to thick ethnographic scriptns of the moral regns of urban sexual worlds (Ksey et al. Scholars ask why gayborhoods first formed (Castells and Murphy 1982; Knopp 1997; Lewis 2013), how they have changed over time (Kanai and Kenttamaa-Squir 2015; Rhbrook 2002; Stryker and Van Bkirk 1996), their cultural signifince for queer people (Doan and Higgs 2011; Greene 2014; Orne 2017), why they appeal to heterosexuals (Brodyn and Ghaziani 2018; Ghaziani 2019d), and their diverse spatial exprsns ( Brown-Saraco 2018; Ghaziani 2019a; Whtemore and Smart 2016). This prompted follow-up qutns about whether gay districts remble ethnic ghettos (Leve 1979; Wirth 1928) and if gay bars are better nceptualized as private (Weightman 1980) or closet-like spac (Brown 2000).
Some rearchers show that people e technology creatively to image new spac away om the gayborhood (Wu and Ward 2017), while others argue that apps reproduce equali (Conner 2018) than origs, anizatns, and technology, rearchers who work a fourth stream of gayborhood studi document mographic chang (Moral 2018; Sprg 2013) and nsir their effects on muny-buildg and placemakg efforts ( Brown-Saraco 2011; Casey 2004; Ghaziani and Stillwagon 2018; Rennger 2019). Cens tracts, real tate ads, bs and non-prof listgs, llective memori, revenu, nighttime enomy, pop-ups, cultural archipelagosAlthough scholars have produced nsirable knowledge about gayborhoods, a key oversight remas: what do the gayborhood mean for the people who actually live ?
I draw on more than six hundred natnal media reports about the gayborhood across several s of verage, particularly stori which a journalist terviewed lol rints, to intify six major reasons why queer people say they live a gay district and what about appeals to them. 2 Non-rintial stakeholrs make “vir” claims on gayborhoods as well (Greene 2014), but the are precisely what the ncept of virns suggts: proxy experienc that take the place of, or are imaged as related to, the on of rints.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Former San Francis supervisor Harry Brt famoly asserted that sexualy and space are extribly lked: “When gays are spatially isolated, they are not gay, bee they are visible” (Castells 1983: 138).
NEW BLM HEAD CICLEY GAY HAS FILED FOR PERSONAL BANKPTCY THREE TIM
”5 Another article the same prs reported on activy San Francis, where lol officials “timate that 95 percent of eligible voters are registered, large part bee of tensive voter-registratn driv gay neighborhoods. Durg electn cycl, gayborhood rints historilly have often worn buttons on their bags to proclaim the power of their vote, and they have anized voter registratn driv on the streets as well (Imag 4.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
The New York Tim terviewed rints of Greenwich Village who reflected on what drew them to the neighborhood before gentrified: “Olr rints rell another era, when the street was paved not wh gold, but wh gays. ”8 Rints like the pend on the streets of gayborhoods, which are often shield om the heterosexual gaze, to nnect wh each four s later and across the untry, people still appreciate the streets of gayborhoods for their sexual workg opportuni. An edorial the Advote reflected on Wt Hollywood’s twentieth anniversary as “Ameri’s first gay cy” ( was rporated on November 29, 1984): “I’m not argug that Wt Hollywood is a perfect cy, or even a gay mec.
”13 Although the gayborhood shifted om the Village to Chelsea, the sense that s streets were safer followed , as this passage om the New York Tim suggts: “Chelsea has bee the gay neighborhood bee gays and lbians feel fortable here.
A reporter for the Philalphia Daily News terviewed a high-school senr who “felt like she was home yterday, walkg the streets the Gayborhood durg OutFt, the Philly Pri event held each year on Natnal Comg Out Day. Black and Lato, and often om poor fai that reject them for beg gay, they are drawn to the street’s bleak g by a need to fe themselv through the pany of soul mat…‘Where I e om, you n’t be black and gay, ’ said Darnell. A journalist for the Chigo Tribune observed, “Young gay men om the cy’s South and Wt sis e to Boystown to vis the Center on Halsted [the LGBTQ muny center], whose youth programs make them feel safe, affirmed, and valued.
‘BROS,’ THE FIRST BIG-STUD R-RATED GAY ROM-, IS FOR EVERYONE
Co-sponsored 2019 by the Chigo Black Social Culture Map, the Morn Dance Mic Archivg Foundatn, and the Center on Halsted, the event clud muny archivg on se, oral histori, and panel discsns that celebrated nightlife’s queer roots, reflected on the signifince of public events like Black Pri, and explored the importance of inic spots and “anchor stutns” (Ghaziani 2014a: 383) the gayborhood.