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- GAY CSG NEAR ME
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS HOTON
- GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
- MONTROSE "GAYBORHOOD"
- GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
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Mart Leve ed spot maps of bars and cisg grounds to substantiate a "gay ghetto"; Jen Jack Giekg analyzed dividuals' "mental maps" of queer space; Am Ghaziani criqued the enclave theory of "gayborhoods" favor of what he terms "cultural archipelagos. "2Mart Leve, "Gay Ghetto, " Gay Men: The Soclogy of Male Homosexualy, ed.
Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison (London: Palgrave Maclan, 2013), 178–200; Am Ghaziani, There Go the Gayborhood? As Hoton's Montrose neighborhood me to be intified as a "gayborhood" between 1960 and 1980, archival evince shows that cisg narrativ played a powerful role that intifitn.
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6Leve, "Gay Ghetto, " 185.
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" That multiplicy of spac grounds his proposal "that we redirect the study of sexualy and space away om our preexistg assumptns of spatial sgulary—evced by a steady stream of publitns about dividual gay districts—toward a cultural archipelagos mol of spatial pluraly. Durg the twenty-year span centered on the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, cisg narrativ Hoton exhib a multiplicy of opns about a multiplicy of spac, even as public awarens of the Montrose neighborhood as "gay" solidified both lolly and natnally.
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Historil queer advertisg ually picts that clientele as gay men and lbians, often but not always as separate populatns rather than a sgle market. Here, "tertg" served as for "gay"; the words "gay" and "homosexual" never appear the League's program, even though the drag event raised money to help those arrted raids on gay bars. While such a 1950s bar uld be any of those Carl Wtman laments his "Gay Manifto, " the 1980's bar I mentn here is que specific.
Also, attendg only to bars and bs n skew our perceptn of queer space along class-flected l; profsnal middle-class and upper-class lbians and gays chewed the bar scene as dangero for some time, even as recently as the 1990s.
In Hoton, that pattern stctured the Dianas, an almost exclively whe, upper-middle-class social anizatn of mostly gay men that origated 1953 as an Amy Awards watch party a private home. See also John Howard's eded volume Carry' On the Lbian and Gay South (New York: NYU Prs, 1997).