Fieldwork Flashbacks
As Treasure Island closes its stores and union workers sue the grocery store chain, I began to reflect of all of the changes that have...
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Gay Life's Featured Bars from the mid-1970s
Below are some clippings from Chicago's Gay Life, chronicling some of the gay neighborhood's most prominent gay bars in and around New...
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New Town to Boystown: Gay Men and Lesbians in the Gayborhood
As the writing continues, I thought I should post this article published in 1983 in the Chicago Tribune titled, "Dollars, votes promote...
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Research Media Coverage
I was organizing the newspaper articles I clipped during my fieldwork and came across one of my study of Boystown. It was published in...
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In the archives
I spent this week doing a lot of revisions and going back to the archives, page by page, flipping through resources like Chicago Gay...
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East Lakeview Arts Festival
For the next few months, I will be writing short pieces here about key moments documented through my fieldwork in Chicago's Boystown that...
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Gay. Art Deco. Disney.
For years, I have wanted to write an article about the relationship between Gayness, Art Deco, and Disney. While there are a few...
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"Safe Place" Programs: Neoliberalism and Violence Against LGBT People
Six months after the Pulse shooting, Orlando launched a "Safe Places" program in an effort to help victims of LGBT violence through...
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Starbucks and The Problem with Commercial "Safe Space"
In the days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, acts of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that...
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The LGBTQ+ People and Festivals of Boystown, Chicago
Here are some photos of Pride and Market Days from 2007-2010, which I took during my ethnographic fieldwork in Boystown, Chicago. #gay...
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No Tea, No Shade
On October 28th, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies will be published. This is a volume of scholarly works edited by...
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On Writing Ethnography (for the first time)
Writing has never been a problem for me. I have always loved writing. But writing an ethnography has been such a huge challenge. There...
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Boystown: Gentrification continues...
As gentrification continues in the neighborhood of Boystown, so too does the writing of my dissertation. I have written and re-wrtiten...
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