"The Gay Land Rush"
American Studies Doctoral Candidate Ryan Murphy is presenting The Gay Land Rush: Race, Gender, and GLBT Identity in the Life of Minneapolis Neighborhoods as part of the University of Minnesota’s GLBT-Q Colloquia Series.
A brief browse through the glossy condominium advertisements in Lavender, the Twin Cities’ only regularly circulating GLBT weekly, exposes how the GLBT community functions as a niche market for the real estate industry. This talk will examine how these fashionable and profitable formulations of GLBT identity and community are increasingly offered as “solutions” to urban poverty intensifying after the demise of the welfare state. The talk will also highlight the raced and gendered problems that this focus on gay domesticity and consumption presents for mainstream GLBT politics.
Wednesday, 2/27
3:30-4:30pm
Room 235, Nolte Center for Continuing Education
Minneapolis Campus
Call (612) 626-2562 or e-mail schochet@umn.edu for more info.
[Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies & Campus Life]
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Its great. We are everywhere! I live NE Mpls. Over here we are trying too save area. What we can offer long term residents. Is that we build areas. Fix up houses. Improve the area. Unlike other aspects of our Society. So I would hope you will welcome your gay neihbors. Many of us arent afraid of confronting the worthless members of our society.