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"The queer ruin persists, as [Henry] Miller had noted a quarter century earlier, 'despite all the efforts to clean it up!' ... As New York continued to reel from its industrial and economic decline, its heteronormative fabric also began to fray at the edges."

In the 1950-60s, because of the homophobia of the NY State Liquor Authority, who would shut down gay bars as "disreputable," places like Stonewall were run by the Mafia, who used them to avoid paying taxes. "The city raised little objection ... when gangsters began to underwrite a new network of clandestine and unpretentious gay bars." In 1966 the mob "put up $3,500 to reopen the Stonewall [Inn] as a gay club."

2019 me is vibrating over the fact that i have a new david wojnarowicz book to read

For a Research project, I am very interested on reading about the viewpoints of gentrification through a queer lens instead of the heteronormative narrative that only families are affected by this