Homosexuality and the city: An historical overview. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Īldrich, Robert. Metropolitan lovers: The homosexuality of cities. This paper examines New York lesbian bars in the 1950s as delineated in Audre Lorde’s memoir Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), in an attempt to answer these questions: Were those bars urban enclaves or clusterings? Did they unlock the individual closets in which many lesbians hid or did they act as collective ones? Were they a locus of conquest or defeat for Audre? KeywordsĪbraham, Julie. The experience of lesbians, in particular, is not another underground story of the city for it delivers a unique urban experience that only they get to endure.
Urban landscapes grow into symbolic itineraries in gay spatial narratives nonetheless, these are not just one narrative because the gender line exists among homosexuals.
Cities, through their urban milieux, dynamic tempo, erotic gaze, voyeurism, alluring mobility, and seductive promises, open up new realms for sexual diversity and experimentation to pursue pleasures unlikely to be practiced elsewhere, but the cities also sexually dupe their residents into other snares, especially homosexuals.
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