Michael Sibalis, Urban Space and Homosexualy: The Example of the Marais, Paris' 'Gay Ghetto', Urban Studi, Vol. 41, No. 9, SPECIAL ISSUE: SEX AND THE CITY: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN SEXUALITY (Augt 2004), pp. 1739-1758
Contents:
- ‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI
- GAY GHETTO
- OUT THE 'HOOD: YOUNG, GAY AND HOPG FOR SOMETHG BETTER
- PHILALPHIA WAS LIKELY FIRST CY TO HAVE A GAYBORHOOD
‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI
Gay people have claimed that there exist wh major ci "gay ghettos", neighborhoods hog large numbers of homosexual men and women as well as gatherg plac where homosexual behavr is generally accepted, and have signated as such certa sectns of Boston, New York, Chigo, San Fran … * gay from ghetto *
The events were also signifintly more policised, wh notable monstratns agast Sectn 28, ernment negligence addrsg the HIV/Aids crisis, and discrimatn agast LGBT+ what is often overlooked the history of Pri the UK is the signifint Black prence, and the spac Black LGBT+ people sought to rve out for themselv among the “mastream” gay and lbian muny. A curated space for Black LGBT+ people at Pri me about 1991, led by an surgency of Black gay men ristg the persistent hostily and margalisatn felt by their muny at Pri.
GAY GHETTO
not for saleAbeloveHenry, BaraleMichelé Aa, and HalperDavid M., eds. The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear. New York: Routledge, 1993.AgambenGrg. The Com * gay from ghetto *
This is the story of how Black self-anisatn the early 90s paved the way for today’s UK Black Thompson and Lloyd Young at Pri Kenngton, Young In the late 80s, early 90s, there was an emergg work of Black gay men. One day 1991, Time Out magaze, there was a ltle article, like “Celebrate gayns at Kenngton Park” [a Pri event]. It was Black mic, rather than the hi-NRG mic that you’d hear om the rt of Gay Pri, which felt very alienatg.
And so to fally attend a Pri where there was mic culturally relevant to me, mic om the Black gay clubs I ed to go to, was a ltle piece of paradise. They said “exce me”, and we immediately knew what they were gog to e out wh bee we always experienced that: you ask any Black gay person, they’d all had this experience, of people sayg: ‘You don’t look gay.
OUT THE 'HOOD: YOUNG, GAY AND HOPG FOR SOMETHG BETTER
* gay from ghetto *
It’s Gay Pri, you know? I went along to Brockwell Park wh my iends; I remember walkg om my hoe Oval to Brockwell Park, and takg the back streets, bee we didn’t want to go through Brixton, bee we knew all the gays gog through Brixton probably would be subjected to some homophobia. At prev Gay Pris I ed to hang out very close to the women’s tent bee that was the tent that played the bt mic.
PHILALPHIA WAS LIKELY FIRST CY TO HAVE A GAYBORHOOD
So that was a lastg memory: jt feelg really exced about the prospect of havg a safe space for Black lbians and gay men, pecially after several unsuccsful attempts to create that at prev Bailey I remember the women’s tent, which I thk was always the more tertg of the tents. Tony was at the stage where he’d bee one of the most visible and vol activists for Black gay men.
I thk if I’m beg hont, if they didn’t have that space, I would’ve stopped attendg Gay Pri. Havg said that, what I found tratg about Black or people of lour spac at Pri is that they’re seen as hip and ol and so they get undated wh whe gay men and lbians.
I was the chair of the Black Lbian and Gay Centre Project (BLGC) and we’d have a stall, and we’d put up flyers and leaflets, and there was a newsletter we ed to produce every month.