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Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. "The White Ghetto": Sexual Deviancy, Police Accountability, and the 1960s War on Poverty 352. Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Safe Streets Patrols and Militant Gay Liberalism in the 1970s 813. "Count the Contradictions": Challenges to Gay Gentrification at the Start of the Reagan Era 1174. Visibility and Victimization: Hate Crime Laws and the Geography of Punishment, 1980s and 1990s 1555. "Canaries of the Creative Age": Queer Critiques of Risk and Real Estate in the Twenty-First Century 185Conclusion 221Epilogue 227Appendix: Neighborhood Maps of New York and San Francisco 231Notes 233Bibliography 315Index 335