A transformation is taking place in cities throughout North America, which are doing away with their heteronormative practices of designing cities, and creating more “gay spaces.” This trend is largely driven by a changing cultural perspective among the various cultural groups, as well as the general trend towards acceptance for those who are gay. These gay spaces are usually confined to areas of the community where there is typically a high concentration of gay people. The locations that contain these “queer spaces,” are areas of reprieve for the gay community, and they should be accepted in communities that have an identifiable neighbourhood consisting largely of gay people. In her statement “Today in most overtly gay spaces there is little to no visible gender queerness or any indication that such variance is tolerated,” Petra Doan is saying that while there are gay spaces that are created for the queer community, these areas often do not contain a high number of gay people, and they are in fact mostly inhabited by heterosexuals. The gendering of these spaces is meant to increase the general acceptance of gay people and to provide a haven for them, but Doan believes these spaces are still largely dominated by heterosexuals. The treatment of the urbex (or urban environment) in what makes up the cities, it is important to consider that the geography has mirrored many of the troubling characteristics of the urban exploration. People are curious about how the majority of
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, society wasn’t the most accepting of places for people who were different from the “social norms”. Now I know, people today still struggle with trying to fit in and be “normal” but it was different. Being a gay man living in San Fransisco at the time, which had a large gay population, Richard Rodriguez had a hard time dealing with the discrimination he faced. Richard Rodriguez was an American journalist who wrote and published a memoir about his life as a gay man. In October of 1990, Rodriguez published his memoir “Late Victorians” in Harper’s Magazine, a critically acclaimed publication of the time. In his memoir, Rodriguez describes what it was like to realize he was gay and watch as the country changed to become a more accepting place. He does this by setting up how things can change and then explaining the actual ways things change for the gay population.
There are so many ways that we can change the world we are living in today. I think I would want to change the world by putting a stop on drugs, alcohol, and smoking and making this a serious thing. People have told me that some kind of drugs are good for you and I tell them “that is for the dogs none of that is true” and all I have to say about this is not one drug on this earth is going to help breathe when you wake up the next morning. The reasons people drink is for their own entertainment I have heard about how so many people have drunk to get something off of their mind. Not to be offensive but that is something that hurts other people and hurts you also.” Promising this is the best thing I will ever do” I will never drink any alcohol for the rest of my living days. Every time I turn on the news all I hear about is how people drinking and driving. We all know for sure they can put a ban on items like this but I don’t see it happening any time soon. When I turn on the news to see how people have got diseases from putting a cigarette in their mouth. How would you make a change in world?
Greenwich Village is a known territory for sizable homosexuals; gays and lesbians. The huge numbers of homosexuals in the region may be due to the influx of men and women who earlier served in the military. The increasing population of homosexuals in the region encouraged the New York City to pass laws against homosexuality
Over the years, North America has developed in many different ways. However, one particular time period in which change was significant was the 1600’s, a time of trade, labor, and territorial settlements. As many people began to settle in different areas of North America, such as the Native Americans, Pilgrims, and more, there came along the fur trade, colony building, and more foreigners looking to live in North America. With these different people coming to North America, they have created ways in which cohabitation is possible, but unlikeable. As more Europeans and Spaniards arrived, the more likely spread was to happen, thus creating an unexpected competition between the developing colonies.
Chauncey’s, Gay New York Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, is essentially a social history investigation into the non-invisible gay New York. The author introduces his reader into city where no man was either a homosexual or heterosexual. Instead, this was a place where a man was either masculine of feminine rather than the sex of their chosen partner. Chauncey makes this argument by saying
This paper will continue on, researching the societal change/acceptance in the gay and lesbian community as no longer being unorthodox and with the stigma coming from the gay community itself.
These local Kansas City publications show how the gay community functioned in the 1970s. As with other publications across the United States, each publication is a unique record of events, supportive businesses, gay rights issues, and the relationships between the members of the community during the period . The advancements in these publications are proof that there was a solid community in Kansas City that demanded more coverage as it continued to
Change in America has constantly been occurring since we first colonized into this country. Since then, plenty of people have made tons of changes for the sake of our country to move forward as a whole. The changes made take a great deal of effort, and the people making these changes dedicate so much time and effort. The people involved in the changes want to help themselves, a group or section of people, or just want to change the society as a whole.
Long before the Europeans discovered the Americas, the North American region went through a lot of geological and geographic changes. Originally there was just one super large mass of land but overtime that land broke apart forming continents. Shifting and folding of the earths crust formed mountains across North America and the rest of the world. One major change that the region of North America went through was during the period of the Great Ice Age. The Great Ice Age took place 2 million years ago. During the Great Ice Age, large glaciers covered North America (along with other continents). When the glaciers disappeared 10,000 years ago they left North America new and transformed. The changes that the glaciers made were forming of lakes,
Rosa Parks once said, “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” (BrainyQuote) In the world, mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, and brothers, are all models for each other. Children look up to their parents and follow in their footsteps. After birth, we grow up around one main race, and that race becomes ”normal” as we get older. America is being colored with a variety of colors of races as time goes on. In the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for the rights of the black citizen, whites were portrayed superior to any other race, especially blacks. As the face of America is changing, this superiority of whites isn't so strong as it was before and races are being able to be looked at as a whole and not different social classes as they were in the past. As the years are changing and the race demographics is changing, we find ourselves more accepting each other, we realize the change is rapid, and we wonder why.
LGBT history has changed the way society works in the United States and has had an impact around the world. The homosexual community came as an impact to the world during the early 1900’s. They were considered different; odd, ill, and weak, but little did we know the effects it would have in today’s society and politics. The war, queer, and AIDs movements seem to relatively impact members of the gay and lesbian community the most. In an series of interviews in “Word is Out” conducted by Nancy Adair and Casey Adair, the reader is introduced into the lives of Pam, Rusty, and Pat; lesbian women living within their true identity during the mid-1900’s. Their stories consist of broken family relationships, marriage failure, and gender roles. To help one understand the dynamics of their relationships and lives, John D’Emilo talks about the effects of war and how it structures and damages the gay community and their opportunity for equality. Elizabeth Davis speaks about the Lesbian experience in public spaces that exposes many to find their character by associating with those that fit best to their community in “Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1930’s and 1940’s”. The LGBT community for centuries has won the spotlight in the news and many articles published in well know newspapers, but what many never get to hear or see are the struggle that many homosexuals face. Both gays and lesbians in the United States have received backlash because of their race, gender, and social class. The
In this article, the authors argue that gay men experience greater psychological distress than heterosexual men. They cite research and statistics surrounding anxiety and depressive disorders as support. They also argue gay men tend to cope with this distress by using a sense of coherence, an outlook that life is predictable and meaningful. This might explain why gay nightlife and social life is centered around positivism and a lack of judgement. This sense of coherence, in which they feel they are valued, meaningful, and belong somewhere, can be embodied in these gay clubs, as they are all united in this. The
There are many reasons that cause this big shift in the United State economy. One reason was the improvement in transportation. Since the country ran under one central government, they help create better roads and canals which help in the transportation. Another reason that enable this change was innovation or new technology. For example, the invention of railroad and creation of steam machines increase the effectiveness of transportation and decrease the time it takes to deliver goods (lecture). Another important invention at this time were the cotton engine. This engine increased the production of cotton of America significantly (Slavery, The Making of America). This started from organizing the workers and therefore caused the creation of
What does it mean when we make spaces for everybody but cis men? Let’s talk about gender separatism. Whether or not we use longer descriptions aimed at framing the message in positive terms: “This is a space for cis women and transgender people” or “All lesbians, transpeople, bi- and heterosexual women are welcome” the intent is to create spaces where everybody but cis men can feel welcome. There was a time when I loved this idea and these spaces. Cis men take up way too much space in the world. It’s a damn relief to know I’m going to a space where I will not have to deal with that particular type of bullshit. I’d hate to see this type of separatism disappear altogether. Still, this approach certainly doesn’t preclude other varieties of bullshit – and that’s the stuff I’d like to interrogate. Increasingly, I have come to view ‘no cis men’ separatism as the following: spaces for anyone assigned female at birth and extremely self-assured and/or well-(queer)networked trans feminine people. Who actually comes to spaces with this type of separatist policy? Who is technically included and not showing up? There are many queer communities in Copenhagen. I’m talking about the one that populates Queer Festival and Queer Sauna… *** This one is extremely dominated by cis women and trans-masculine people. All transgender people are welcome in theory but the only a handful of brave trans women actually show up in these spaces with any regularity. AFAB playground As a
For my first assignment, I spent two hours observing customers’ interaction in a fancy bar in downtown Toronto. During my observation, I see people chatting, playing their phones and doing make-ups. These are the type of interaction commonly found in a bar. As a space defined by alcohol selling, bars have become the exclusive place where adults find entertainment, socialise with other like-minded people and escape temporarily from the scary world of stress, work, and sometimes, oppression. Lesbian bars are a potential candidate that fulfil all of them. Do lesbian-bar-goers think that lesbian bars are safe shelters? Do they behave or express themselves differently in lesbian bars compared to when they are in other public space because lesbian bars are safer? What are the reasons and meanings behind the ways in which they choose to behave or express themselves? What is the significance of having lesbian bars in their daily lives? I propose to answer these sociological questions through my research. I will also use gender-neutral pronoun to avoid exclusion in this assignment.