Not in My Gayborhood

Not in My Gayborhood provides a new perspective on iconic gay neighborhoods. Greene’s book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the gayborhood, attending not only to its limits and problems (especially for racial and gender minorities) but also its continued symbolic and practical significance. I wholeheartedly recommend the book to anyone interested in queer settlements and, more generally, to those who wish to learn more about how any neighborhood includes and excludes. -- Japonica Brown-Saracino, author of <i>How Places Make Us</i> and <i>A Neighborhood That Never Changes</i> Not in My Gayborhood is at once timely and enriching. A needed account of the life, sudden death, and resurrection possibilities of LGBTQIA+ neighborhoods uplifting the Black placemaking at their roots. -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, author of <i>Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation</i> This richly conceptualized work shows how Black and queer placemakers preserve the meanings of neighborhoods they have been priced out of. “We” may be everywhere, but this can feel like being nowhere until we converge on a fountain, bar, or street corner, and then the world is temporarily—but gloriously—ours. -- Greggor Mattson, author of <i>Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places</i> Going beyond conventional understandings of gayborhoods, Greene examines how LGBTQ people develop a sense of place in the city. The sustained engagement of his research in Washington, DC, is a model for ethnographers everywhere. -- Amy L. Stone, author of <i>Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South</i>