Tag: homonormativity

• March 15, 2021

  Chapter: Update to “Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San Francisco”

  I updated my 2015 piece in Urban Studies for Christopher T. Connor and Daniel Okamura’s edited volume, The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle. “Reductionist conceptions of gay nightlife and the neighbourhoods they anchor have obscured their diversity amid claims of gentrification or displacement. The divergent trajectories of San Francisco’s three gay bar districts…
• November 4, 2015

  Article: Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San Francisco

  Another of my journal articles on San Francisco gay bars appears in the current edition of Urban Studies. My very simple point is not all gay neighborhoods are (or were) the same. The point was so simple it languished in 4 journals for 7 years, going through 9 revisions. But now it’s out – complete…