There Goes the Gayborhood?

by Amin Ghaziani

Book Overview

Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the origins of these unique cultural enclaves, the reasons why they are changing today, and their prospects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691158797
• ISBN13: 9780691158792
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"