Lesbian and gay quarters
As gay village (also gay area ; engl .: gay neighborhood, gay village, gayborhood ) are Neighborhood referred to by a pronounced gay gay-subculture distinguished. Typical are a high proportion of gay and lesbian populations and an infrastructure geared towards these groups, such as bars, pubs, night clubs, saunas , restaurants, club rooms, advice centers, bookshops and video stores. In academic research, lesbian and gay quarters are the main theme in queer studies and urban research .
history
In the second half of the 20th century, lesbian and gay quarters in the western industrialized countries became recognizable as such for non-residents, but they emerged decades earlier. Before the spread of the lesbian and gay movement , such areas were rather unknown to a broader public, often because of the criminal law situation , but they established themselves in niches of large cities. The historian George Chauncey reports from the Bowery as such a niche in New York City at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, which was replaced by Harlem and Greenwich Village by the 1920s . Also Marc Stein says of Philadelphia from that, there have been concentrations of both lesbians and gay men in the 1940s, -50ern and -60ern that overlapped in part, and how also included public space housing, commercial space.
Street sign in the lesbian and gay district of Philadelphia with rainbow
Exit of Beaudry Subway Station in Montreal's gay and lesbian district
Christopher Park in Greenwich Village with the "Gay Liberation Monument" by George Segal , which is supposed to commemorate the " Stonewall uprising " of 1969.
As a meeting point of gay life in Berlin literary z. B. Described by Klaus Mann ( Der pious dance ) and Christopher Isherwood : The area around Nollendorfplatz and Motzstraße
literature
- Manuel Castells : The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles 1983.
- John D'Emilio : Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. Routledge, New York, London 1992.
- Jeffrey Escoffier: American Homo: Community and Perversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1998.
- Richard Florida : The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life. Perseus Books Group, New York 2002.
- Benjamin Forest: West Hollywood as Symbol: The Significance of Place in the Construction of a Gay Identity. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 133-157.
- Moira Rachel Kenney: Remember, Stonewall was a Riot: Understanding Gay and Lesbian Experience in the City. In: Leoni Sandercock (Ed.): Making the Invisible Visible. Chapter 5, pp. 120-132. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1998.
- Mickey Lauria, Lawrence Knopp: Toward an Analysis of the Role of Gay Communities in the Urban Renaissance. In: Urban Geography. Volume 6, 1985. pp. 152-169.
- Martin P. Levine: Gay Ghetto. In: Martin Levine (Ed.): Gay Men: The Sociology of Male Homosexuality. Harper & Row, New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London 1979, pp. 182-204.
- Brian Ray, Damaris Rose: Cities of the Everyday: Socio-Spatial Perspectives on Gender, Difference, and Diversity. In: Trudi Bunting, Pierre Filion (Eds.): Canadian Cities in Transition: The Twenty-First Century. Second edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, pp. 507-512
Web links
- gayScout with a list of the "top gay cities"
swell
- ^ MP Levine: Gay Ghetto. In: Journal of Homosexuality. Volume 4, 1979, p. 364
- ^ George Chauncey: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay World. Basic Books, New York 1994, p. 227.
- ↑ Marc Stein: City of Brotherly and Sisterly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 21