Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City's LGBTQ Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3632048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Vogler (0000-0001-7166-5999, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-192 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2015.1083781 |
| PMID | 26296138 |
| OpenAlex | W2228606121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 55 |
Using document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers' and city's goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space due to its dress code and redevelopment history. I argue that the debate surrounding this controversy reveals limits to notions of diversity and diverging approaches to sexual politics within the LGBTQ community that are normally obscured by political actors within the movement but that work to create symbolic boundaries that exclude "non-respectable" members of the LGBTQ population. Recovering queer perspectives allows us to imagine a more capacious definition of diversity and inclusion, both within the LGBTQ movement and in urban space
Diversity (politics · Inclusion (mineral · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Population · Pride · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Money, Myths, and Change
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
Cosmopolitan Urbanism
The global emergence of gay and lesbian politics
The City and the grassroots.
The Neoliberal City
Respectably Queer
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens
Urban Space and Homosexuality
Handbook of Feminist Research
On the Organizational Question
Occupy Wall Street and A Radical Politics of Inclusion
Producing `Pride' in West Hollywood
Out” in Columbus
The Intersection of Gay Street and Straight Street
Dress to Impress
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
What Sexuality Is This Place? Building a Framework for Evaluating Sexualized Space
Without Working?”
Cleansing the Metropolis
Introduction
USA's Destiny? Regulating Space and Creating Community in American Shopping Malls
Social Capital, Gentrification and Neighbourhood Change in London
Public Disorder and its Relation to the Community–Civility–Consumption Triad
Remaking Place and Securitising Space
Urban Space and Homosexuality
Super‐gentrification in Barnsbury, London
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
Authenticating Queer Space
Urban Lifestyles
Anything But Heavy Metal
The marketing of diversity in the inner city
Changing Highbrow Taste
Cracking the Code
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space
The Class-Inflected Nature of Gay Identity
Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma
Tank Tops Are Ok but I Don't Want to See Her Thong
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Civil Society and the Sexual Politics of Difference
Theorizing the 'Modes of Incorporation
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |