Safe Space - Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

List of contents

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

About the author

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christina B Hanhardt, Christina B. Hanhardt
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2013
• EAN: 9780822354574
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5457-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)