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Not in my gayborhood! gay neighborhoods and the rise of the vicarious citizen Theodore Greene

"Since the landmark Obergefell decision by the Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage and effectively mainstreaming LGBT citizens, there has been much hand wringing in the media and academia about the fate of iconic gay neighborhoods. While the residential compositions of gay neighborhoods...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Greene, Theodore (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press [2024]
Subjects:
Gay community > Washington (D.C.)
Gay culture > Washington (D.C.)
Neighborhoods > Washington (D.C.)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : making Dupont gay again
  • Still "a very gay city" : a historical impression of Washington's LGBTQ communities
  • "J'ai deux amours" : the promiscuity of community attachments in the postmodern city
  • Places in abeyance : placemaking and the construction of community in institutional anchors
  • Heteros, beware! Monitoring and preserving queer culture through normative vicarious claims
  • "Presente! presente!" : place ruptures and the enactment of radical vicarious claims
  • Political vicarious claims and the art of self-enfranchisement
  • Conclusion : place reactivation and vicarious citizenship beyond the gayborhood

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