The Homosexuality of Cities

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Abraham, Julie (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 586-595

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch51

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

Samuel Delany, gay American novelist, writer and essayist ‐ New York City in Times Square Red, Times Square Blue , Edmund White, and gay men ‐ in Arab neighborhoods of Paris in The Flâneur, not being Arabs , homosexuals and urbanites, sharing qualities ‐ making them un‐American , homosexuality and urbanity ‐ fused as subjects , third phase, homosexuals ‐ political, and social and cultural force in the United States, after World War II , European “great city,” as the home of “blacks” ‐ of various colors, the Irish, Africans, South Asians, or Arabs , homosexuality of cities , context of homosexuality of cities, city divided and polarized ‐ contemporary political concerns, core pattern of urban study , history of homosexuality of cities ‐ three phases , White, Delany, and Florida, and gays in the city ‐ via their uses of Baudelaire, Benjamin, and Jane Jacobs, within modern “great city”