"Since the landmark Obergefell decision by the Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage and effectively mainstreaming LGBT citizens, there has been much hand wringing in the media and academia about the fate of iconic gay neighborhoods. While the residential compositions of gay neighborhoods are demographically changing, conclusions predicting their demise have not come to fruition, and point to new strategies for keeping gayborhoods relevant in the "post-gay" era. How do neighborhoods retain their cultural identities ...
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"Since the landmark Obergefell decision by the Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage and effectively mainstreaming LGBT citizens, there has been much hand wringing in the media and academia about the fate of iconic gay neighborhoods. While the residential compositions of gay neighborhoods are demographically changing, conclusions predicting their demise have not come to fruition, and point to new strategies for keeping gayborhoods relevant in the "post-gay" era. How do neighborhoods retain their cultural identities when residential patterns shift? In Not in My Gayborhood!, Theodore Greene draws on seven years of ethnographic, interview, and archival research gathered from gay neighborhoods in Washington, DC. It introduces and explores the concept of the vicarious citizen, which include a diverse group of self-identified community members, some of whom were former or displace residents of the neighborhood, who draw on a variety of practices to mobilize against perceived thereat to their notion of an authentic community. Whether challenging the increased presence of heterosexual families, the displacement of institutions due to rising property values, or the toning down of a neighborhood's sexual culture, vicarious citizens draw on symbolic claims to to the physical space of the neighborhood as a form of self-enfranchisement, with a focus on the conduct of key community anchors. Vicarious citizen may hold differing and even contradictory perspectives of the community than its residents, and they may have only passing or superficial contact with its residents. Nevertheless, vicarious citizens take on the responsibility of constructing and preserving a place based neighborhood culture"--
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