From Vice to Nice Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.10.2025
Verlag
University Of North Carolina PressSeitenzahl
338
Maße (L/B/H)
23,1/15,5/2,3 cm
Gewicht
499 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4696-9039-1
Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to fuel gentrification. During the height of the epidemic, white gay activists and politicians pursued social acceptance by assimilating to Midwestern cultural values. This approach, René Esparza argues, diluted radical facets of LGBTQ activism, rejected a politics of sexual dissidence, severed ties with communities of color, and ushered in the destruction of vibrant queer spaces.
Drawing from archival research, oral histories, and urban studies from the 97 s through the 99 s, Esparza illustrates how the onset of the AIDS epidemic provided a pretext for further criminalization of perceived sexual deviance, targeting sex workers, "promiscuous" gay men, and transgender women. More than the criminalization of people and behaviors, it also saw increased targeting of urban venues such as bathhouses, adult bookstores, and public parks where casual, anonymous encounters occurred. Cleansing the city of land uses that undermined gentrification became a protective measure against the virus, and the most marginalized bore the brunt of the ensuing surveillance and displacement. Esparza contends that, despite purporting seemingly progressive values, LGBTQ Midwestern politics of conformity leveraged the AIDS crisis to further instigate racial and sexual exclusion and fundamentally alter the urban landscape.
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