Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Becoming Gayfriendly
Reticence, recognition, indifference: three different
generations
‘It simply didn’t exist’
‘It would be un-cool to be un-gayfriendly’
‘A non-issue’
The learning processes
Atypical heterosexuals
The ordeal of coming out
Chapter 2. Gay Respectability
The right to love each other American-style and sexual freedom in
France
The Power of the Law
Sexual Liberalism
Gay marriage, heterosexual relief
Republican
universalism and the difference between the sexes
Good neighbours, good husbands and wives, good parents
Appropriating an area in the name of
diversity
Progressive
synagogues and churches in Park Slope
A cause for
gentrifiers
From lesbian
enclave to gayfriendly district
Family
integration, class integration
Gayfriendliness within the family
You shall be gayfriendly, my child
Integration
and surveillance of same-sex families
You will
(perhaps) be gay, my child
The guide
for gayfriendly parents
From tomboy
to invisible lesbian
Chapter 3. Heterosexuals as allies
Feminine Compassion
The division of moral labour
Male unease
The ‘Cruisers’ of the Parisian night scene
The ‘fag hag’ and her ‘gay best friend’
Disillusions, safe haven and substitute
The Prism of femininity
Gayfriendliness and lesbophobia
Women rebelling against marriage
(Re)-building your life when living alone
Sexual experiments
Chapter 4. The frontiers of gayfriendliness
A race and class norm
Homophobia as bad taste
Talking about space, not race
The Southern United States as a deterrent
Visibilities and invisibilities
Keeping the streets clean
My gay friends
The home of heterosexuality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Sylvie Tissot is Professor of Political Science at University of Paris 8.
“As anti-gay and anti-trans sentiment surges, the illusion of a
rainbow coloured world of queer inclusion is rendered ever more
apparent and the need for critical and complex analysis becomes
ever more pressing. Sylvie Tissot has given us just such an
analysis. In this compelling comparative study of two
‘gayfriendly’ oases, she unpacks the often contradictory affects of
both queers and straights as they imagine sexual identities in
supposedly ‘tolerant’ urban spaces and, in so doing, offers a
critical commentary on the limits of tolerance and the
possibilities of radical inclusion in a world still governed by
normative heterosexuality. A smart and nuanced addition to the
burgeoning literature on queer spaces and the promises (and limits)
of straight allyship.”
Suzanna Danuta Walters, author of The Tolerance Trap: How God,
Genes, and Good Intentions Sabotaged Gay Equality
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