Queer Newark: stories of resistance, love, and community

"Queer Newark brings New Jersey's largest city into LGBTQ history, moving beyond the reductive urban-crisis vision of Newark that has dominated media depictions of the city since its famous urban unrest of 1967 to reveal the vibrant queer history of a working-class Black-majority community...

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Weitere Verfasser: Strub, Whitney (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, Camden ; Newark, New Jersey , London ; Oxford Rutgers University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:"Queer Newark brings New Jersey's largest city into LGBTQ history, moving beyond the reductive urban-crisis vision of Newark that has dominated media depictions of the city since its famous urban unrest of 1967 to reveal the vibrant queer history of a working-class Black-majority community. In contrast to histories that focus on middle-class activist organizations and tourist-destination enclaves, Queer Newark charts a history in which working-class people of color are the central historical agents, and in which violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire. Authors uncover the sites and people of Newark's rich queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches; they offer fresh perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, community relations with police, Latinx immigration, and gentrification; and they consider how to narrate complicated queer urban histories for public audiences"--
Beschreibung:viii, 310 pages illustrations 25 cm
ISBN:9781978829213
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