Queering Urbanism : : Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice / / Stathis G. Yeros.

• VerfasserIn: Yeros, Stathis G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement. Combining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories, Queering Urbanism traces these phenomena through the history of a network of sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that urban landscape, Stathis Yeros investigates how queer people appropriated existing spaces, how they expressed their distinct identities through aesthetic forms, and why they mobilized the language of citizenship to shape place and secure space. Here the legacies of LGBTQ+ rights activism meet contemporary debates about the right to housing and urban life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Queer Politics of Space -- 1. Spaces of Separation, Assimilation, and Citizenship -- 2. New Victorians in the 1970s -- 3. Lesbian Feminism and Women’s Spaces -- 4. AIDS and the City -- 5. Living in Queer Times -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index