Not in My Gayborhood

Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen

Theodore Greene (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2024
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-18988-0 (ISBN)

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Gay neighborhoods are disappearing—or so the conventional story goes. In this narrative, political gains and mainstream social acceptance, combined with the popularity of dating apps like Grindr, have reduced the need for LGBTQ+ people to seek refuges or build expressly queer places. Yet even though residential patterns have shifted, traditionally gay neighborhoods remain centers of queer public life.

Exploring “gayborhoods” in Washington, DC, Theodore Greene investigates how neighborhoods retain their cultural identities even as their inhabitants change. He argues that the success and survival of gay neighborhoods have always depended on participation from nonresidents in the life of the community, which he terms “vicarious citizenship.” Vicarious citizens are diverse self-identified community members, sometimes former or displaced locals, who make symbolic claims to the neighborhood. They defend their vision of community by temporarily reviving the traditions and cultures associated with the gay neighborhood and challenging the presence of straight families and other newcomers, the displacement of local institutions, or the taming of sexual culture. Greene pays careful attention to the significance of race and racism, highlighting the important role of Black LGBTQ+ culture in shaping gay neighborhoods past and present. Examining the diverse placemaking strategies that queer people deploy to foster and preserve LGBTQ+ geographies, Not in My Gayborhood illuminates different ways of imagining urban neighborhoods and communities.

Theodore Greene is associate professor of sociology at Bowdoin College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Dupont Gay Again
1. “Still a Very Gay City”: A Historical Impression of Washington’s LGBTQ Communities
2. J’ai Deux Amours: The Promiscuity of Community Attachments in the Postmodern City
3. Places in Abeyance: Placemaking and the Construction of Community in Institutional Anchors
4. Heteros, Beware! Monitoring and Preserving Queer Culture Through Normative Vicarious Claims
5. “Presente! Presente!”: Place Ruptures and the Enactment of Radical Vicarious Claims
6. Political Vicarious Claims and the Art of Self-Enfranchisement
Conclusion: Place Reactivation and Vicarious Citizenship Beyond the Gayborhood
Appendix A: Map of Washington, D.C., “Gayborhoods” Referenced
Appendix B: Washington, D.C., LGBTQ Places Referenced
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	15 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-231-18988-5 / 0231189885
ISBN-13	978-0-231-18988-0 / 9780231189880
Zustand	Neuware