A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers - Jen Jack Gieseking

Descriere A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers - Jen Jack Gieseking

\n \nWinner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of Geographers \n \nThe first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City \n \nOver the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home. \n \nFocusing on well-known neighborhoods like Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights, Gieseking shows how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have folded under the capitalist influence of white, wealthy gentrifiers who have ultimately failed to make room for them. Nevertheless, they highlight the ways lesbian and queer communities have succeeded in carving out spaces--and lives--in a city that has consistently pushed its most vulnerable citizens away. \n \nBeautifully written, A Queer New York is an eye-opening account of how lesbians and queers have survived in the face of twenty-first century gentrification and urban development.\n

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New York University Press

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9781479835737

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