Gayborhood

Christopher T. Conner is visiting professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Daniel Okamura is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

• Introduction: Queering the Sociological ImaginationChristopher T. Conner and Daniel OkamuraChapter One: Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the GayborhoodAdriana Brodyn and Amin GhazianiChapter Two: Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San FranciscoGreggor MattsonChapter Three: The Triumph of Collective Intimacy—Gay Collective Sex in New York City from the Late 1800s to TodayÉtienne Meunier and Jeffrey EscoffierChapter Four: Gayborhoods as Criminogenic SpaceVanessa R. PanfilChapter Five: Disappearing: Gay Spaces and the Gay SingletonAliraza JavaidChapter Six: Erotic Capital and Queer Men of ColorOmar Ali MushtaqChapter Seven: The Whiteness of Queer Urban PlacemakingTheo GreeneChapter Eight: Beyond the Homonormative Framework: How Two-Mother Families in Poland Deal with Social Invisibility and Related AnxietiesMagdalena WojciechowskaChapter Nine: When the Gayborhood Isn’t Enough: How Trans Y

Mapping the field of gayborhood studies, this volume is a masterful one-of-a kind collection that invites readers to rethink what they know about queer communities. The rich contributions from a wide range of scholars fill an important niche and makes it a must-read. A wonderful accomplishment.