A Queer New York: Author Talk with Jen Jack Gieseking

A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008 is the first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City. In this Preservation Book Club webinar, we invited author Jen Jack Gieseking to talk about their research exploring how lesbians and queers have survived in the face of twenty-first century gentrification and urban development. A Queer New York highlights the historic significance of lesbian and queer spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home. In his presentation, Jack focuses primarily on Greenwich Village, which is also talked about in the book along with other NYC neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Park Slope.