Christa B. Hanhardt's Safe Space is a richly tailed and imprsively terdisciplary study of gay and lbian neighborhood advocy anizatns, lol s
Contents:
- SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE
- SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE (PERVERSE MORNI: A SERI EDED BY JACK HALBERSTAM AND)
- CHRISTA B. HANHARDT, SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE, ED. LISA LOWE AND JUDH HALBERSTAM. DURHAM: DE UNIVERSY PRS, 2013. 376 PP. £60.00 HBK; £15.99 PBK.
- CHRISTA B. HANHARDT, SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE (DURHAM, NC: DE UNIVERSY PRS, 2013, $25.95). PP. 376. ISBN978 0 8223 5470 3.
SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE
Wner, 2014 Lambda Lerary Award LGBT Studi Sce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, peci... * safe space gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence *
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Polics of Vlence on JSTOR. Wner, 2014 Lambda Lerary Award LGBT StudiSce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, pecially gay neighborhoods. “This is a ep and trigug study of what neighborhood and safety have meant—and seemed to mean—to different facets of the gay muny at different tim s velopment the perd followg WWII....
SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE (PERVERSE MORNI: A SERI EDED BY JACK HALBERSTAM AND)
Wner, 2014 Lambda Lerary Award LGBT StudiSce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, pecial * safe space gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence *
While obvly wrten for an amic dience, Safe Space will be accsible to most rears, and offers some sights to ways that gay spac may not have been que what we thought they were. This rich analysis serv as a eful primer on why gay neighborhoods are at the epicenter of discsns about gentrifitn.
What began as a gay backlash to victimisatn soon beme a platform for ristance to state vlence.... Overall, this is a fascatg sight to lser-known aspects of Ameri’s gay liberatn movement. "Hanhardt's very specific archivg of neighborhood activism and antivlence anizatn San Francis and New York is important for helpg to ntextualize, expla, crique, and challenge the elist, whe-supremacist, homonormative, and unsafe space crafted by the fundg ncepts, anizatnal strategi, and mpaign disurs of the ntemporary LGBT movement.
CHRISTA B. HANHARDT, SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE, ED. LISA LOWE AND JUDH HALBERSTAM. DURHAM: DE UNIVERSY PRS, 2013. 376 PP. £60.00 HBK; £15.99 PBK.
* safe space gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence *
“Hanhardt’s voice is that of an activist sadned, sometim enraged, by how the potential for both equaly and diversy was squanred by a middle-class whe gay movement.
This is terdisciplary at s bt, and Christa Hanhardt unearths new archival evince that will change the way we thk about the history of gay neighborhoods and the polics of vlence. "Safe Space velops a powerful crique of neoliberal obftn which radil gay moments of the past beme nvenient vers for pal accumulatn.
CHRISTA B. HANHARDT, SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLICS OF VLENCE (DURHAM, NC: DE UNIVERSY PRS, 2013, $25.95). PP. 376. ISBN978 0 8223 5470 3.
Wner, 2014 Lambda Lerary Award LGBT Studi Sce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, pecially gay neighborhoods. Durg the same time, policymakers and private velopers clared the ntament of urban vlence to be a top prry. In this important book, Christa B. Hanhardt exam how LGBT lls for "safe space" have been shaped by broar public safety iativ that have sought solutns policg and privatizatn and have had vastatg effects along race and class l. Drawg on extensive archival and ethnographic rearch New York Cy and San Francis, Hanhardt trac the entwed histori of LGBT activism, urban velopment, and U.S. policy relatn to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formatn of a mastream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectori followed by radil LGBT and queer grassroots anizatns. Placg LGBT activism the ntext of shiftg liberal and neoliberal polici, Safe Space is a groundbreakg exploratn of the ntradictory legaci of the LGBT stggle for safety the cy. * safe space gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence *
"A wonrful book that bursts through the ual boundari of gay history. Hanhardt weav class, race, and sexualy tightly together her urban history of the last fifty years and, dog so, succeeds upsettg much of the nventnal wisdom about the gay movement and gay polics. " — John D'E, thor of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Polics, and Culture"Safe Space is a pathbreakg book for the terdisciplary fields of queer studi and Amerin studi.
Offerg a trenchant acunt of the stak of gay (and sometim lbian) claims to urban geographi, this refully rearched history unsettl many of the heroic assumptns drivg the current polics of sexual inty the U.
Christa B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Polics of Vlence, ed. Lisa Lowe and Judh Halberstam. Durham: De Universy Prs, 2013. 376 pp. £60.00 hbk; £15.99 pbk. - Volume 42 Issue 1 * safe space gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence *
Somerville, thor of Queerg the Color Le: Race and the Inventn of Homosexualy Amerin Culture"Christa B. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Polics of Vlence - 24 Hours accs. Sce the 1970s, a key goal of lbian and gay activists has been protectn agast street vlence, pecially gay neighborhoods.
Rather than sexual outsts fightg back agast police abe, the 2002 gatherg featured privileged (maly whe) gay, lbian, and straight homeowners llg for police to step up enforcement of qualy-of-life laws. When did lgbt neighbourhood anizg mpaigns shift om safe street patrols, [End Page 398] which sought to protect lgbt people om anti-gay vlence, to appeals to the police to enforce curfews that targeted queer youth of lour?