{"product_id":"the-city-aroused-queer-places-and-urban-redevelopment-in-postwar-san-francisco-hardback-9781477328347","title":"The City Aroused; Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (Hardback) 9781477328347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQueer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDamon Scott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477328347, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 36 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e is full of revelations . . . For readers interested in early LGBTQ history and its association with labor history and the history of development of a queer community nearly a decade before Stonewall it is essential reading. With around 40 pages of notes and quotes from sources not readily available before this book it expands knowledge of our history in a vital way.\u003c\/div\u003e (Bay Area Reporter) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how a crackdown on gay life by the city of San Francisco in the 1950s led to the first stirrings of gay rights activism...with meticulous attention to detail but without sacrificing readability.\u003c\/div\u003e (The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e captures an intricate and complex history of San Francisco (CA) previously unassembled...[in] a narrative that is as meticulous as it is intriguing...\u003ci\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e is an unusual and compelling account of the politics and policy of discrimination but also a blueprint of how oppressed nondominant groups can energize and organize to resist injustice and mistreatment.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the American Planning Association)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively history of urban development and its influence on queer political identity in postwar San Francisco. By reconstructing the planning and queer history of waterfront drinking establishments, Damon Scott shows that urban renewal was a catalyst for community organizing among racially diverse operators and patrons with far-reaching implications for the national gay rights movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Following the exclusion of suspected homosexuals from the maritime trades in West Coast ports in the early 1950s, seamen’s hangouts in the city came to resemble gay bars. Local officials responded by containing the influx of gay men to a strip of bars on the central waterfront while also making plans to raze and rebuild the area. This practice ended when city redevelopment officials began acquiring land in the early 1960s. Aided by law enforcement, they put these queer social clubs out of business, replacing them with heteronormative, desexualized land uses that served larger postwar urban development goals. Scott argues that this shift from queer containment to displacement aroused a collective response among gay and transgender drinking publics who united in solidarity to secure a place in the rapidly changing urban landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Exodus on the Eve of Destruction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. The Changing Sexual Geography of the Waterfront \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. The Birthplace of Modern San Francisco \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Hanging Out at the Ensign CafÉ\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. A Queer History of 90 Market Street \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. The Demise of the Queer Waterfront \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: Destruction and Creation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670808391960,"sku":"9781477328347","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-city-aroused-queer-places-and-urban-redevelopment-in-postwar-san-francisco-hardback-9781477328347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}