Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

Aldrich, Robert

doi:10.1080/0042098042000243129

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“…The urbanization process, which brought about a new social structure, is historically connected to the growth of the gay market. This is because aspects of urban development made cities into refuges for homosexuals, in contrast to rural society's extremely conservative mentality in relation to sexuality (Aldrich, 2004;Branchik, 2002).…”

Section: The Market Lgbt Movements and Gay Consumersmentioning

confidence: 98%

Between two worlds: an ethnographic study of gay consumer culture in Rio de Janeiro

Pereira

Ayrosa²

2012

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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It is not easy to study socially marginalized groups such as gays, ethnic minorities, and others. This is, however, an extremely relevant topic in the consumer behavior area since the status of members of a modern consumer society is largely denied to stigmatized social groups (Barbosa, 2006). The objective of this work is to shed light on how gay men in Rio de Janeiro use the discourse associated with their possessions to build and maintain the symbolic and hierarchical boundaries between the gay and heterosexual worlds, as well as to investigate the role consumption plays in this boundary setting. An ethnographic observation of a group of gay men in Rio de Janeiro was conducted, along with 20 semi-structured interviews with openly gay men between 2005 and 2008. The results suggest that: (a) the world culturally built by gays seems to be divided into a gay world and a heterosexual world, where the division between these two worlds not only happens in their minds, but also in their possessions and purchasing decisions; (b) the meaning of gay mens' places of consumption range from profane to sacred along their lives; and (c) in the gay world, the body is seen both as a cultural construction and as an asset.

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Section: The Market Lgbt Movements and Gay Consumersmentioning

confidence: 98%

Between two worlds: an ethnographic study of gay consumer culture in Rio de Janeiro

Pereira

Ayrosa²

2012

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…De même, nous ne pouvons pas évaluer l'impact de la répartition de la population homosexuelle sur la géographie du pacs. Il est cependant attendu que ce groupe, « mécaniquement » surreprésenté dans le pacs, participe et même renforce certaines dynamiques spatiales évoquées précédemment : migration vers Île-de-France ou le Midi à l'âge adulte, à l'occasion d'une décohabitation de la cellule familiale et de la région d'origine (Eribon, 1999) ; métropolisation, déjà ancienne (Aldrich, 2004), et accentuation de la centralité, avec un afflux principalement vers Paris et certaines capitales régionales 6 , où les homosexuels, notamment les plus jeunes, savent qu'ils trouveront à la fois l'anonymat et la visibilité, presque impossibles ailleurs (Leroy, 2005).…”

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Espaces de pacs : géographie d'une innovation sociale

Jaurand¹,

Leroy²

2009

Annales De Géographie

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RésuméEn France, le pacte civil de solidarité (pacs) permet depuis 1999 l'union entre deux adultes quel que soit leur sexe. Porté par les gays et lesbiennes auxquels il offre une reconnaissance symbolique et un début d'égalité des droits en matière de vie de couple, il s'est progressivement banalisé, comme en témoigne son succès quantitatif croissant (plus de 200 000 signatures en 6 ans). L'analyse de la géographie du pacs montre une diffusion à partir des capitales nationale et régionales vers tout le pays. Ce processus s'accompagne du maintien de singulières disparités spatiales à toutes les échelles, en particulier la place privilégiée de Paris et des Midis. Elles sont en partie explicables par le jeu de multiples facteurs sociaux, culturels et démographiques : il existe notamment une forte corrélation entre la concentration des professions intellectuelles du secteur public et le taux de pacs. La géographie de cette innovation sociale, incomplète en raison des lacunes de l'information (ignorance du sexe des pacsés), témoigne de la complexité des mutations actuelles de la société française, marquées notamment par l'émergence d'une nouvelle classe moyenne supérieure métropolitaine.Mots-clés : pacs, France, innovation sociale, disparités spatiales, homosexuels. AbstractSince 1999, the civil solidarity pact ("pacs"), allows in France the union between two adults regardless of their sex. Supported by gays and lesbians to whom it gives a symbolic recognition and the beginning of rights equality in couple life matters, it progressively normalized itself as its increased success shows it (more than 200 000 signatures in 6 years). The analysis of the geography of the "pacs" shows that it has spread from national and regional capitals toward all the country. This process took place with the upholding of remarkable spatial disparities at any scale, in particular the mean place of Paris and the South of France. We can partly explain them by the combination of a lot of social, cultural and demographic factors: there is a major correlation between the concentration of public creative professionals and the civil solidarity pact rate. The geography of this social innovation is uncompleted because of missing information (the sex of "pacs" signers is not recorded). It proves the complexity of the current social changes in France, characterized by the rise of a new metropolitan upper middle class.

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“…6 The world today is a safer place for sexual minorities, and this has consequences for where they choose to live and socialize. "Segregation into 'gay ghettos' may have marked a passing phase in homosexual urban history.… Increasingly, homosexual life blends with other aspects of the city" (Aldrich 2004(Aldrich , p. 1732. How can we measure the culture of such a group?…”

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Measuring urban sexual cultures

Ghaziani

2014

Theor Soc

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Gay neighborhoods across the United States are de-concentrating in today's so-called "post-gay" era as sexual minorities assimilate into the mainstream and disperse across the city. This context creates a problem of measurement. If by "culture" we mean to say a particular way of life of a group or subgroup of people like sexual minorities, and if that way of life is blending with other aspects of the metropolis, then how can we detect distinct urban sexual cultures? In this article, I use 125 interviews with Chicago residents to propose a two-pronged strategy. First, gay neighborhoods continue to house anchor institutions, despite ongoing residential out-migrations. These are the primary engines of community building, and they locate the material culture of a group in a specific place. Commemorations serve as a second indicator for a culture, and they too put meanings into form. Although it is a fact of city life that all neighborhoods change, anchors and commemorations are analytic devices that scholars can use to observe urban sexual cultures. More generally, they provide a framework for how to measure the shifting geographic profile of a historically stigmatized group as it experiences positive change in public opinion.

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Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

Cited by 123 publications

References 26 publications

Between two worlds: an ethnographic study of gay consumer culture in Rio de Janeiro

Between two worlds: an ethnographic study of gay consumer culture in Rio de Janeiro

Espaces de pacs : géographie d'une innovation sociale

Measuring urban sexual cultures

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