A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

Jen Jack Gieseking

Published by New York University Press 2020

A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

Jen Jack Gieseking

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479891672.001.0001

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The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City

Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home.

Focusing on well-known neighborhoods like Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights, Gieseking shows how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have folded under the capitalist influence of white, wealthy gentrifiers who have ultimately failed to make room for them. Nevertheless, they highlight the ways lesbian and queer communities have succeeded in carving out spaces—and lives—in a city that has consistently pushed its most vulnerable citizens away.

Beautifully written, A Queer New York is an eye-opening account of how lesbians and queers have survived in the face of twenty-first century gentrification and urban development.

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Gieseking Jen Jack :

Jen Jack Gieseking is an urban and digital cultural geographer and environmental psychologist. They are Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches courses on digital studies and queer geographies.Jen Jack Gieseking is an urban and digital cultural geographer and environmental psychologist. They are Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches courses on digital studies and queer geographies.

Reviews

Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora:
In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking offers a stunningly trenchant and much needed study of lesbian-queer spaces in the city. He deftly demonstrates how place and belonging can be mapped into lesbian-queer generational shifts. With light, elegant, and sometimes humorous prose combined with an incisive analytical approach, Gieseking showcases the processes of urban emplacement and displacement of lesbian-queer lives and bodies from Greenwich Village to Crown Heights to Park Slope. A fabulous geographical portrait of an-other Big Apple.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Navigating A Queer New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Belonging in Greenwich Village and Gay Manhattan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. You vs. Us in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
4. Dyke Slope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
5. Constellating a Queer Map of the Lesbian City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Epilogue: What We Cannot Not Want Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Appendix I. Identity Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Appendix II. Biographical Sketches of Participants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Appendix III. Methodological Details Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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- Other: 45 b/w illustrations
Keywords: Lesbian; Constellations; Gentrification; Neighbourhood; Queer theory; Feminist theory; Urban geography; Production of space; Transgender and gender non-conforming people; People of color; Black geographies; Whiteness; Manhattan; Brooklyn; Racism; Greenwich Village; Paradoxical space; Queers of color; Disidentifications; Queer failure; Lines and orientations (Ahmed)

eBook

Published: September 15, 2020
ISBN: 9781479891672