Table of Contents: The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods :

The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods : Renaissance and Resurgence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bitterman, Alex.
Other Authors:	Hess, Daniel Baldwin.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	The Urban Book Series
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Foreword
Preface
References
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
Part IIntroduction
1 Who Are the People in Your Gayborhood? Understanding Population Change and Cultural Shifts in LGBTQ+ Neighborhoods
1.1 Introduction: Beneath the Crowded LGBTQ+ Umbrella
1.2 Nomenclature: Everyone Belongs
1.3 The Other: Refuge and Refusal to Change
1.4 Marginal to Memorable: The Evolution of Gay Neighborhoods
1.4.1 The First Great Plateau
1.5 Empirical Plan for This Book
1.5.1 A Note Regarding Limitations
1.6 Takeaway Messages
1.7 Conclusion: Resurgence and Renaissance
References
Part IIContext and Composition
2 Breaking Down Segregation: Shifting Geographies of Male Same-Sex Households Within Desegregating Cities
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Data and Methods
2.2.1 Decennial Census Data
2.2.2 Segregation Scores
2.2.3 Gay Neighborhoods
2.2.4 Other Neighborhood Characteristics
2.2.5 Analysis
2.3 Results
2.3.1 Trends in Segregation and Neighborhood Change
2.3.2 Characteristics of Neighborhoods Within Desegregating Cities
2.3.3 Increasingly Segregated Cities
2.4 The Demographic Future of Gay Neighborhoods
2.5 Future Research: Census 2020 and Beyond
References
3 A Queer Reading of the United States Census
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Heteronormativity and Urban Development
3.3 The Census, Heteronormativity, and LGBTQ Populations
3.4 A Queer Reading of the Census
3.5 Testing the Variables in Four Neighborhoods
3.6 Non-family Household Results
3.7 Never Married by Sex Results
3.8 Divorced by Sex Results
3.9 Sex Ratio of Age 25-54 Cohort Results
3.10 Discussion
3.11 Comparison to Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data
3.12 Conclusion
References
4 Why Gayborhoods Matter: The Street Empirics of Urban Sexualities.
4.1 Introduction: Gayborhood Studies
4.2 Why Do You Live in the Gayborhood?
4.3 Conclusions
References
Part IIIIdentity and Evolution
5 The Rainbow Connection: A Time-Series Study of Rainbow Flag Display Across Nine Toronto Neighborhoods
5.1 Rainbow Flag: Visibility, Implication, and Meaning
5.2 A Capsule History of the Rainbow Flag
5.3 The Rainbow Flag as Place Brand for Gay Neighborhoods
5.4 The Power of Graphics in the Built Environment
5.5 Concentration and Persistence of Rainbow Flags Define Boundaries of Gay Neighborhoods
5.6 Empirical Plan for the Visual Assessment of Rainbow Flag Display
5.7 Observations and Findings
5.8 Diaspora as Practical Identity
5.9 Rainbow Proliferation: Synthesis and Conclusions
5.10 Takeaway Messages
Sources
6 Wearing Pink in Fairy Town: The Heterosexualization of the Spanish Town Neighborhood and Carnival Parade in Baton Rouge
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Consuming Gay Culture
6.3 Baton Rouge Mardi Gras and the Spanish Town Parade
6.4 Methods
6.5 The Bohemian 1980s in Spanish Town
6.6 Spanish Town Parades as Part of Gay Cultural History in Baton Rouge
6.7 Homophobia and Queer Culture in the Contemporary Parade
References
7 A Tale of Three Villages: Contested Discourses of Place-Making in Central Philadelphia
7.1 Background
7.2 The Space in Question
7.2.1 Gayborhood
7.2.2 Washington Square West
7.2.3 Midtown Village
7.3 Discursive Moments
7.3.1 Snapshots from the Gayborhood
7.3.2 The Skeleton of Washington West
7.3.3 Welcome to Midtown Village
7.4 Further Directions
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 Are "Gay" and "Queer-Friendly" Neighborhoods Healthy? Assessing How Areas with High Densities of Same-Sex Couples Impact the Mental Health of Sexual Minority and Majority Young Adults
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Background
8.3 Method
8.4 Results
8.5 Discussion
8.6 Limitations and Conclusion
References
Part IVCo-Relation and Dialectic
9 Let's (not) Go Outside: Grindr, Hybrid Space, and Digital Queer Neighborhoods
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Situating Sexualities, Cities, and Technologies
9.3 Location-Based Dating Apps and Their Hybrid Queer Spaces
9.4 The Ambiguous Impact of Location-Based Media on Existing Gayborhoods
9.5 Conclusion: Space for Co-Existence?
References
10 A Gay Neighborhood or Merely a Temporary Cluster of "Strange" Bars? Gay Bar Culture in Antwerp
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Emergence of a Gay Bar Culture in Antwerp
10.3 The Paradigmatic Case History of Café Strange in the Central Station Area
10.4 The Decline of Gay Bar Life in Antwerp
References
11 Recovering the Gay Village: A Comparative Historical Geography of Urban Change and Planning in Toronto and Sydney
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Historical Geographies of Gay Villages: Segregation and Integration
11.3 Historical Geographies of Sexuality in Toronto
11.3.1 A Nascent Gay Village: Toronto in the 1970s
11.3.2 Neoliberalism and Toronto's Gay Village
11.3.3 Toronto's Village Today
11.4 Historical Geographies of Sexuality in Sydney
11.4.1 Consolidation of a Gay Neighborhood: Sydney in the 1970s to the 1990s
11.4.2 An End to Village Life in Sydney?
11.5 Thoughts on Historical Legacies and the Future of the Gay Village
11.6 Concluding Remarks: Wider Implications for Urban Planning and Policy
References
12 After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces: Learning from Atlanta and Istanbul
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces
12.3 Midtown, Atlanta
12.3.1 Centripetal Forces in the Atlanta Case
12.3.2 Centrifugal Forces in the Atlanta Case
12.4 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey.
12.4.1 Centripetal Forces in the Istanbul Case
12.4.2 Centrifugal Forces in the Istanbul Case
12.5 Discussion
References
Part VSignifiying Meaning and Memory Across Generations
13 Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generation in Montréal's Mile End
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Methodology
13.3 Generation Queer
13.4 Divergent LGBTQ Urbanisms
13.4.1 The Gay Village
13.4.2 Queer Mile End
13.5 Conclusion
References
14 Understanding Generation Gaps in LGBTQ+ Communities: Perspectives About Gay Neighborhoods Among Heteronormative and Homonormative Generational Cohorts
14.1 Introduction
14.2 A Brief Overview of Generational Cohorts
14.3 The Contemporary Heteronormative Saeculum and Events that Shaped the World
14.4 Exploring LGBTQ+ Generations: Through the Eyes of Warhol, Vidal, Capote &amp
Hudson
14.5 The Homonormative Saeculum and the Events that Shaped a Century of LGBTQ+ Culture
14.6 The Intersection of LGBTQ+ Generational Cohorts and Gay Neighborhoods
14.7 Future Possibilities for Gay Neighborhoods
14.8 Synthesis and Conclusion: Connections for LGBTQ+ People Across Generational Cohorts
14.9 Takeaway Messages
References
15 Commemorating Historically Significant Gay Places Across the United State
15.1 Generations of Gay History
15.1.1 Violence and Commemoration
15.2 Significant LGBTQ+ Sites
15.2.1 LGBTQ+ Heritage Initiative
15.2.2 Protecting American LGBTQ+ Heritage
15.2.3 Aim of Landmarks Dedication
15.2.4 Initial Results of the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative
15.3 Current Status of the Preservation of LGBTQ+ Sites
15.3.1 Constancy of Application
15.4 The Future of Preserving the Past
15.5 Takeaway Messages
References
16 Plateaus and Afterglows: Theorizing the Afterlives of Gayborhoods as Post-Places
16.1 Introduction.
16.2 The Phenomenology of Place
16.3 Post-Phenomenological Perspectives
16.4 Plateaus and Afterglows
16.5 Post-Placing Gayborhoods
16.6 Conclusion: Beyond the Gayborhood in Space, Time, and Scholarship?
References
Part VI Epilogue
17 After/Lives: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Gay Neighborhoods
17.1 Introduction: Once More, Without Human Contact?
17.2 Do Places Matter? Empirical Trends for the Future of LGBTQ+ Spaces
17.3 Concluding Remarks: Beyond the Master Metaphor of the Gayborhood?
References
Index.

The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods : Renaissance and Resurgence.

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