Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Streets Patrols and the New Gay Ghetto, 1976 -- 1981.
The article focuses on the strategies of two patrols during the 1970s, namely the Butterfly Brigade in San Francisco, California's Castro District and the Society to Make America Safe for Homosexuals (SMASH) in Chelsea, New York. It contends that grassroots activism lying outside the orbit usually a...
| Published in: | Radical History Review no. 100; pp. 60 - 86 |
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Duke University Press
Winter2008
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the strategies of two patrols during the 1970s, namely the Butterfly Brigade in San Francisco, California's Castro District and the Society to Make America Safe for Homosexuals (SMASH) in Chelsea, New York. It contends that grassroots activism lying outside the orbit usually associated with property ownership is one means by which neighborhoods have been claimed and marketed for exclusive urban constituencies. It also demonstrates how the public uptake of a racialized culture of poverty thesis based on ideas of wounded masculinity has shaped new activist understandings of the homophobia found in gentrifying central cities. |
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