A Queer New York by Jen Jack Gieseking

The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City. Rapid gentrification has erased many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. Gieseking maps the political, economic and geographic dispossession of communities in neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, showing how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have given way to white, wealthy gentrifiers, and how lesbians and queers have nonetheless carved out spaces and lives in a city that keeps pushing its most vulnerable residents away.