Bronx Beginnings

JONES, ALLEN; Naison, Mark

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“…The MSA's gay and lesbian community has since the 1970s been most visible in the city of Dallas. Prior to the 1960s, gay-oriented bars and other gathering areas existed in various central Dallas neighborhoods (Johnson, 2007;Webb, 2006b) but by the 1970s gay and lesbian life in the city became focused on the Oak Lawn neighborhood north of downtown (Jones, 2011;Webb, 2006a). The area featured an existing entertainment district on Cedar Springs Road, subdivided mansions and apartment houses, and easy access to employment downtown and at nearby wholesale trade centers.…”

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Mapping gay and lesbian neighborhoods using home advertisements: Change and continuity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area over three decades

Whittemore¹,

Smart

2015

Environ Plan A

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Determining the spatial distribution of gay and lesbian households is relevant to understanding gay and lesbian identity and empowerment, and it has been a goal for geographers over the past half century. Our paper answers to calls for investigations of gay and lesbian geography beyond traditional enclaves. We use 9210 street addresses of advertised rental and for-sale properties posted between 1986 and 2012 in the gay and lesbian-oriented Dallas Voice to map historical changes in the spatial distribution of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area's gay and lesbian population. We show how gay and lesbian markets contrast with those of all Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area renters and homeowners, and consider our data in light of Dallas Voice coverage of how the location of the gay and lesbian population has shifted. Among other things, we find that advertisements have come to feature properties further from gay bars, and in census tracts of higher income, education levels, and rents, but that these advertisements also have consistently featured properties in census tracts with older construction and a higher proportion of same-sex coupled households. Our findings provide evidence of dispersion from old enclaves and reclustering in new areas, suggesting both lesser attachment to traditional enclaves, and the continuing importance of proximity to each other for gay and lesbian households.

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