San Francisco's Castro district: from gay liberation to tourist destination

Boyd, Nan Alamilla

doi:10.1080/14766825.2011.620122

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“…Identifying a gay residential concentration in neighborhoods became part of a distinct project for sociologists like Levine (1979) and Murray (1979Murray ( , 1996, who analyzed the sociological validity of gay neighborhoods as spatial communities akin to cultural ghettos and ethnic enclaves. Acknowledging the participation of extra-neighborhood gay residents in neighborhoods institutions, these studies overlook these forms of participation as expressions of community investment, which accelerated by the late-1970s as the economic transformation of neighborhoods like the Castro (Boyd 2011;Israels 1979;Shilts [1977Shilts [ ] 1994 and the French Quarter (Knopp 1990) forced priced-out and displaced gay populations to seek affordable housing in surrounding communities. Studies in the last decade have highlighted how gay and lesbian residential enclaves often do not overlap with LGBT social areas (Gates and Ost 2004;Kelly et al 2014).…”

Section: Gay Neighborhoods and Vicarious Citizenshipmentioning

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Gay Neighborhoods and the Rights of the Vicarious Citizen

Greene¹

2014

City & Community

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Drawing on a combination of qualitative methods using data collected from gay neighborhoods in Chicago and Washington, DC, this article develops the notion of vicarious citizenship—the exercise of rights and claims‐making by nonresidential stakeholders who personally identify politically, economically, or socio‐culturally with a local community. Vicarious citizens include a diversity of self‐identified community members, some of whom were former or displaced residents of the neighborhood, who draw on a variety of socio‐territorial practices to mobilize against perceived normative and political threats to their visions of authentic community. At times, vicarious citizens may hold differing and even conflicting perspectives on the functions of community, challenging the claims of local residents and those with more material stakes in the local area. I argue the notion of vicarious citizenship can expand our understanding of how gay neighborhoods remain relevant among certain LGBT populations who, for a variety of reasons, select into neighborhoods outside established gay areas. Vicarious citizenship can also be found in other nonresident communities.

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Section: Gay Neighborhoods and Vicarious Citizenshipmentioning

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Gay Neighborhoods and the Rights of the Vicarious Citizen

Greene¹

2014

City & Community

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“…Renninger (2018) adheres to a critical view of this argument by problematizing LGBT spatial dynamics in cities. If a few decades ago gay bathhouses and bars were relatively safe places because they allowed the free expression of an oppressed group, the advance of social movements, associated with evidence of the consumption potential of this segment, has created new urban dynamics, in which the presence of gay people is associated with property valuation and urban gentrification (Gorman-Murray, 2016)a phenomenon Christafore and Leguizamon (2018) have called "gaytrification" -, which can be observed in the districts of Castro, in San Francisco (Boyd, 2011); Brooklyn, in New York (Gieseking, 2013); and Marais, in Paris (Giraud, 2009). Indeed, when it comes to consumption, the LGBT market is highly attractive and profligate in novelties, as is the case of dating apps.…”

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Dynamics of Gay Men’s Organized Social Life on Dating Apps

Saraiva

2023

Organ. Soc.

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The forms technology has assumed in contemporaneity are as varied as they are ubiquitous. They have transformed the ways of living in society in a context of increasing mediation of social relations by technology, which seems to complement face-to-face interactions by establishing new social existence modalities. This article aims to discuss the dynamics of social life organized on dating apps around four basic axes: virtuality, sociability, stereotyping, and violence. The study is based on an inductively inspired survey of users of the Grindr app in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The data suggest that virtuality implies superficiality and a disposable attitude to relationships, which lead to a form of ephemeral sociability in which stereotyping is ostensibly employed to accelerate the dynamic by attributing preconceptions to other users. Indeed, these aspects are materialized as varied and systematic violence practices, which are frequent in the context of the investigated application. The main conclusions reveal that organized social life humanizes organizational analysis and advances the concept of organization by humanizing the process and including the ways of organizing practiced by social groups. This includes situating the researcher in a process that implicates them and politicizes knowledge production.

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“…In fact, the settlement and functioning of these neighbourhoods has been well documented (e.g. Castells and Murphy, 1982;Bell and Valentine, 1995;Knopp, 1997;Binnie, 2004;Boyd, 2011;Collins, 2006;Giesekin, 2013Giesekin, , 2016Hanhardt, 2013;Giraud, 2014;Springate, 2016) particularly in Anglo-Saxon (and mostly North American) "village model". Outside this context, however, there is also a rather lively debate, with a variety of interesting empirical studies and conceptual reflection exploring beyond the Anglo-Saxon queer narrative (Lizama, 2014;Lau et al, 2014;Giraud, 2014;Collins, 2006;Leroy, 2005;Salinas, 2007;Robbins, 2011;Vieira, 2010), which definitely need to gain academic visibility and assert their specificities.…”

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Entre “guetos”, “espaços seguros” e “gaytrificação”: Explorando as especificidades dos bairros LGBT na Europa do Sul

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Pires²

2019

CCT

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In recent decades, "LGBT neighbourhoods" or "gay Villages" have been gaining some prominence and particular characteristics within cities, representing safe spaces for the expression and negotiation of individual and collective identities as well as for the political affirmation of LGBT communities and queer identities. As other areas that have been the main drivers of urban revitalization of inner-cities, such as cultural and creative quarters or multicultural spaces, these territories distinguish for the social practices of their users and inhabitants, the specificities of their economic activity, or their contribute to creativity or social integration. More than community ghettos, these areas have been characterized by their openness and vibrancy, enhancing the coexistence of diverse lifestyles, trajectories and identities, but also by the contribution of LGBT people to the gentrification of these districts through their strong commercial, residential and symbolic presence. Drawing upon an empirical work developed in Lisbon (Príncipe Real district) and Madrid (Chueca district), based on in-depth interviews to LGBT residents and participant observation in the two neighbourhoods, this paper characterizes the main evolutionary trajectories and specificities of these two districts. An analysis is made confronting the characteristics and contingencies of these areas with other cases previously studied in literature, identifying the existence of notable differences and suggesting evidence of significant specificities, which can represent a "South European" approach to the reality of "Gay Villages". Some generic principles for urban planning are drawn out from the analysis.

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San Francisco's Castro district: from gay liberation to tourist destination

Cited by 20 publications

References 11 publications

Gay Neighborhoods and the Rights of the Vicarious Citizen

Gay Neighborhoods and the Rights of the Vicarious Citizen

Dynamics of Gay Men’s Organized Social Life on Dating Apps

Entre “guetos”, “espaços seguros” e “gaytrificação”: Explorando as especificidades dos bairros LGBT na Europa do Sul

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