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Record Nr.

UNISA996582042903316

Autore

Gieseking Jen Jack

Titolo

A Queer New York : Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers / / Jen Jack Gieseking

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4798-0300-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : 45 b/w illustrations

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Electronic books

Gay people

Gays

Gender identity

Gender-nonconforming people

Intersex people

Sexual minorities

Sexual minority culture

SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Navigating A Queer New York -- 2. Belonging in Greenwich Village and Gay Manhattan -- 3. You vs. Us in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights -- 4. Dyke Slope -- 5. Constellating a Queer Map of the Lesbian City -- Epilogue: What We Cannot Not Want -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I. Identity Terms -- Appendix II. Biographical Sketches of Participants -- Appendix III. Methodological Details -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of GeographersThe first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York CityOver the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+



community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home.Focusing on well-known neighborhoods like Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights, Gieseking shows how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have folded under the capitalist influence of white, wealthy gentrifiers who have ultimately failed to make room for them. Nevertheless, they highlight the ways lesbian and queer communities have succeeded in carving out spaces-and lives-in a city that has consistently pushed its most vulnerable citizens away.Beautifully written, A Queer New York is an eye-opening account of how lesbians and queers have survived in the face of twenty-first century gentrification and urban development.