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We're from Oz: marking ethnic and sexual identity in Chicago.
- Source :
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Environment & Planning D: Society & Space . Aug2003, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p425-440. 16p. 8 Black and White Photographs. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- In 1998 the City of Chicago installed street furniture (including twenty-two twenty-threefoot-high, illuminated, rainbow-ringed pylons) designed to mark a gay neighborhood known as Boys Town. In this paper I describe the historical context for this project and the debates it occasioned in a US context where, sociologists suggest, sexual and ethnic identities are increasingly convergent. 1 challenge, from a visual-studies perspective, the values attached to invisibility by critics who would prefer that sexual identity remain unmarked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *GAY neighborhoods
*GENDER identity
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02637758
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning D: Society & Space
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10893228
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d372