Why Are Gay Ghettoes White?

Measuring urban sexual cultures

“…That said, they also carry a risk of reductionism and selection bias that is worth mentioning. Not all same-sex cultures are urban (Herring 2010;Gray 2009;Brekhus 2003;Kazyak 2012), not all urban sexual cultures are based in gay neighborhoods (Barrett and Pollack 2005), those that are can sometimes exclude women, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, bisexuals, and transgender individuals (Nero 2005;Pritchard et al 2002;Valentine 2000;Adler and Brenner 1992;Doan 2007;Hemmings 2002;Valocchi 1999a), and sexual cultures, whether urban or otherwise, can vary by region (Sears 2001;Fellows 1996;Stryker and Van Buskirk 1996).…”

Straight Gods, White Devils: Exploring Paths to Non-Religion in the Lives of Black LGBTQ People

“…For example, a 'gay neighborhood' can be safe for a moneyed group of white gay men (Castells 1983, Knopp 1990, Nero 2005) but unsafe for poor LGBTQ people of color displaced through policing (Eng 2010, Mogul, Ritchie andWhitlock 2011) and gentrification (Rothenberg 1995, Knopp 1995, Hanhardt 2008, Gieseking 2013. This makes it difficult for black LGBTQ people to belong in LGBTQ spaces and communities, which are crucial for the survival of LGBTQ people as a whole (Davis 1995).…”

Homonormativity, Charternormativity, and Processes of Legitimation: Exploring the Affective-Spatio-Temporal-Fixed Dimensions of Marriage Equality and Charter Schools

“…No amount of homonormativity can deracialize Black and Brown bodies from the racial logics of U.S. imperialism and capitalism. Yet, by using the Black activism of the Civil Rights Movement as symbolic capital without explicitly being on the side of antiracism coalitions, gay rights movements have alienated and exploited communities of color and even displaced them through gentrification (Nero, 2005). Much of the current gay rights movement has shifted toward the preservation and promotion of "class and race privilege of a small number of elite gay and lesbian professionals while marginalizing or overtly excluding the needs and experiences of people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, indigenous people, trans people, and poor people" (Spade, 2011, p. 65).…”