There Goes the Gayborhood?

Ghaziani, Amin

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“…When a reporter asked about the gayborhood in Chicago, one resident remarked: ‘The gay neighborhood? It's pretty much all of Chicagoland' (Ghaziani, : 71). A New Yorker similarly said: ‘The entire island of Manhattan's gay' ( ibid .).…”

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‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

Ghaziani

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Journalists, activists and academics alike predict that gay neighborhoods in the United States will disappear, yet many of their claims are unsubstantiated or overly deter mined by economic factors. This article examines 40 years of media accounts to identify the mechanisms that explain why these urban areas are changing. I begin with the obser vation that the rate of assimilation of sexual minorities into mainstream society has accelerated in today's socalled 'postgay' era. Assimilation expands the residential imag ination of gays and lesbians beyond the boundaries of a specific neighborhood to the entire city itself. Furthermore, as sexual orientation recedes in centrality in everyday life, residents opine that few care if a person selfidentifies as gay or straight. These two respective mechanisms of expansion and cultural sameness bring existing economic wisdom into dialogue with a cultural and political perspective about how our shifting understandings of sexuality also affect the decisions we make about where to live and socialize.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

Ghaziani

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Amin Ghaziani () brought together the media‐generated concept of post‐gay with the academic evidence about the decline of the closet into a formal post‐gay thesis, arguing that collective sexual identity construction among nonheterosexuals is shifting as a result of both increased intra‐group diversity and increased assimilation. In his research on university queer advocacy groups () and on the changing significance of the “gayborhood” (), Ghaziani documented a movement away from static identity labels (e.g., the move from “gay” to “queer”), a symbolic repositioning of LGBTQ identities as normal and everyday, and decreasing sexual separatism in spaces, neighborhoods, and organizations marked as gay. A number of scholars of urban sexualities have since confirmed that spaces marked as gay/lesbian have disappeared or undergone normative transformations that de‐emphasize queerness and welcome heterosexual participants (Kampler, ; Kanai & Kenttamaa‐Squires, ; Mattson, ; Orne, ), though they are more explicitly critical of these trends than Ghaziani, whose use of the term post‐gay is intended to be descriptive rather than evaluative.…”

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“…(Notably, both of these studies ultimately doubt the veracity of the claim that the current era is post‐gay.) Elsewhere, post‐gay is defined as a space that was once marked as homosexual but is increasingly integrated and/or less necessary as a source of community and reprieve for gays and lesbians (e.g., Brown, ; Collard, ; Kampler, ; Ghaziani, ; Kanai & Kenttamaa‐Squires, ; Mattson, ; Orne, ; Reynolds, ). Still elsewhere, it is defined as an identity or social location that refers to a limited subset of normative gay men but is invoked as universally accessible; individuals themselves can claim to be post‐gay or post‐mo (Aguirre‐Livingston, ; Blow, ; Nash, ; Tucker, ).…”

Section: Tenets Of Post‐gay Discoursementioning

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The post‐gay debates: Competing visions of the future of homosexualities

Kampler

Connell

2018

Sociology Compass

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Sexualities scholars and cultural critics debate whether or not the United States is moving toward a “post‐gay” future in which sexual orientation will cease to be relevant to a person's social position, life experiences, and conception of self. While some have argued that a post‐gay revolution is underway, others are more skeptical of this claim, particularly for rural, non‐White, poor, and otherwise marginalized queers. Further, recent political shifts may indicate that a backlash to the mainstreaming of nonheterosexualities has begun, meaning any progress of the past that might be labeled post‐gay has stalled or even lost ground in recent years. In addition to the question of whether there has been a post‐gay turn, there is disagreement over whether such a turn should be the end goal of sexualities activism. Some champion a post‐gay ethos as a means to alleviate sexuality‐based discrimination while others critique this kind of assimilation and argue it actually intensifies inequality and stratification. This article explores the history of these post‐gay debates and discovers significant conceptual confusion inherent in the use of the term, which limits its utility as a social scientific concept. In addition, we argue that despite the better intentions of some scholars who take it, the post‐gay position ultimately buttresses homonormative strategies of social and political activism that actively exclude marginalized queer and trans people. We suggest that to the extent the concept of post‐gay remains academically relevant, it is as a descriptor of a particular politics or discourse rather than as a statement of fact about the contemporary era.

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“…Many gay and lesbian households continue to express a preference for living in traditional, visibly gay and lesbian neighborhoods (Ghaziani, 2010(Ghaziani, , 2014. Doan (2015) and Doan and Higgins (2011) suggest that this longing may be strongest among the young, poor, and racial and ethnic minorities, while long-term, mostly non-Hispanic White gay and lesbian property owners in traditional enclaves have profited by improving and integrating their properties into the mainstream market.…”

Section: Gay and Lesbian Neighborhoodsmentioning

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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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There Goes the Gayborhood?

Cited by 35 publications

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‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

The post‐gay debates: Competing visions of the future of homosexualities

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

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