ISBN:
9781477328347
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 250 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, Damon, Ph. D. City aroused
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, Damon, Ph. D. City aroused
DDC:
306.760979461
Keywords:
Gay bars / California / San Francisco / History
;
Gay bars / Political aspects / California / San Francisco / History
;
Sexual minority community / Political activity / California / San Francisco / History
;
Sexual minority community / California / San Francisco / History
;
City planning / Political aspects / California / San Francisco / History
;
Urban renewal / Political aspects / California / San Francisco / History
;
Bars pour personnes homosexuelles / Californie / San Francisco / Histoire
;
Bars pour personnes homosexuelles / Aspect politique / Californie / San Francisco / Histoire
;
Communautés de minorités sexuelles / Activité politique / Californie / San Francisco / Histoire
;
Communautés de minorités sexuelles / Californie / San Francisco / Histoire
;
Rénovation urbaine / Aspect politique / Californie / San Francisco / Histoire
;
City planning / Political aspects
;
Gay bars
;
Sexual minority community
;
Urban renewal / Political aspects
;
California / San Francisco
;
History
Abstract:
"The City Aroused is a lively history of urban development and its influence on queer political identity in postwar San Francisco. By reconstructing the planning and queer history of waterfront drinking establishments, Damon Scott shows that urban renewal was a catalyst for community organizing among racially diverse operators and patrons with far-reaching implications for the national gay rights movement. Following the exclusion of suspected homosexuals from the maritime trades in West Coast ports in the early 1950s, seamen's hangouts in the city came to resemble gay bars. Local officials responded by containing the influx of gay men to a strip of bars on the central waterfront while also making plans to raze and rebuild the area. This practice ended when city redevelopment officials began acquiring land in the early 1960s. Aided by law enforcement, they put these queer social clubs out of business, replacing them with heteronormative, desexualized land uses that served larger postwar urban development goals. Scott argues that this shift from queer containment to displacement aroused a collective response among gay and transgender drinking publics who united in solidarity to secure a place in the rapidly changing urban landscape"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : exodus on the eve of destruction -- The changing sexual geography of the waterfront -- The birthplace of modern San Francisco -- Hanging out at the Ensign Café -- A queer history of 90 Market Street -- The demise of the queer waterfront -- Conclusion : destruction and creation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
