Read the following pieces: Jackson, Black, D., Gates, G., Sanders, S., & Taylor, L. 2002. “Why do Gay Men Live in San Francisco?” Journal of Urban Economics, 51(1): 54-76; Boyd, Nan. 2003.
“Transgender and Gay Male Culture from the 1890s to the 1960s” in Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1865. Berkeley, University of California Press. (Citations for the book are located here); Rubin, Gayle S. 1998.
“The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather 1962-1997” Pp.247-269 in Reclaiming San Francisco.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.phptitle=Folsom_Street:_The_Miracle_Mile
This week, you explored the history of queer communities in places like San Francisco. What did you learn about the roots of LGBT people in the Bay Area — and in what ways have queer communities helped to define places like San Francisco? What challenges do researchers face in creating these narratives? How did the works that we read this week face, resolve, or work around those challenges?
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