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The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
List of contents
Introduction: Queering the Sociological Imagination
Christopher T. Conner and Daniel Okamura
Chapter One: Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood
Adriana Brodyn and Amin Ghaziani
Chapter Two: Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San Francisco
Greggor Mattson
Chapter Three: The Triumph of Collective Intimacy-Gay Collective Sex in New York City from the Late 1800s to Today
Étienne Meunier and Jeffrey Escoffier
Chapter Four: Gayborhoods as Criminogenic Space
Vanessa R. Panfil
Chapter Five: Disappearing: Gay Spaces and the Gay Singleton
Aliraza Javaid
Chapter Six: Erotic Capital and Queer Men of Color
Omar Ali Mushtaq
Chapter Seven: The Whiteness of Queer Urban Placemaking
Theo Greene
Chapter Eight: Beyond the Homonormative Framework: How Two-Mother Families in Poland Deal with Social Invisibility and Related Anxieties
Magdalena Wojciechowska
Chapter Nine: When the Gayborhood Isn't Enough: How Trans Youth Utilize the Internet to Make a Digital Trans Neighborhood
Jonathan Jiménez
Chapter Ten: Gays Under Glass: Gay Dating Apps and the Affection-Image
Tom Penney
Chapter Eleven: Gayborhood Change: The Intertwined Sexual and Racial Character of Assimilation in Chicago's Boystown
Jason Orne
Afterword: Somewhere Beyond the Gayborhood
C.J. Janovy
About the author
Christopher T. Conner is visiting professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Daniel Okamura is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Summary
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
