LGBTQ America

Jen Jack Gieseking
Mississippi. 44 In many of these studies and histories, gender plays out
differently in these areas, and masculinity in both men and women is
generally accepted. 45 In all of these examples, however, most attention is
paid to white experience and paints rural LGBTQ people of color still
having less support and infrastructure to claim and enact physical space.
Neighborhoods and Territories
Figure 3: Harlem United provides help and advice for people in the community with HIV/AIDS.
Since 1988 it has provided health and housing related services in the Harlem neighborhood of
New York City, New York. Photo taken at New York City Pride by Tadekk, 2008. 46
Throughout the twentieth century, LGBTQ people have developed
physical enclaves in the form of territories in suburban or rural settings or
ghettos and/or neighborhoods within cities. These spaces afford more
navigable areas within those larger landscapes from which to create and
share community, culture, politics, rituals, and economies. LGBTQ
neighborhoods hold an iconic place in literature and popular media as a
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Malcolm Ingram, Small Town Gay Bar. Documentary, 2006.
45
Kazyak, “Midwest or Lesbian?”
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