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Informationen zum Autor Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Klappentext Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines.Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city. "A wonderful book that bursts through the usual boundaries of gay history. Christina B. Hanhardt weaves class, race, and sexuality tightly together in her urban history of the last fifty years and, in doing so, succeeds in upsetting much of the conventional wisdom about the gay movement and gay politics. Her analysis implicitly calls for the revival of a multi-issue, intersectional queer politics that challenges injustice of every sort and sees them all as linked."--John D'Emilio, author of" The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture" Zusammenfassung A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "The White Ghetto": Sexual Deviancy, Police Accountability, and the 1960s War on Poverty 35 2. Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Safe Streets Patrols and Militant Gay Liberalism in the 1970s 81 3. "Count the Contradictions": Challenges to Gay Gentrification at the Start of the Reagan Era 117 4. Visibility and Victimization: Hate Crime Laws and the Geography of Punishment, 1980s and 1990s 155 5. "Canaries of the Creative Age": Queer Critiques of Risk and Real Estate in the Twenty-First Century 185 Conclusion 221 Epilogue 227 Appendix: Neighborhood Maps of New York and San Francisco 231 Notes 233 Bibliography 315 Index 335 ...
