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Thinking Allowed

Gaybourhood and City Life

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4997 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gay life at home and in the 'city' - a special edition of Thinking Allowed presented by Laurie Taylor. From squatted terraces to rented bedsits, the social historian, Matt Cook, explores the domestic and family lives of gay men - the famous, infamous and unknown - in London over the past century. The social anthropologist, Rachael Scicluna, charts the changing domestic lives of metropolitan lesbians. And US sociologist, Amin Ghaziani, describes the way in which urban enclaves such as Greenwich Village in New York have long provided sexual minorities with a safe haven in an unsafe world.

How have gentrification, as well as increasing social acceptance and legal rights, impacted on the existence of gay neighbourhoods? And do lesbian and gay home lives now mirror those of heterosexuals rather than offering alternative models of domesticity, family and belonging?

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:16.1

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0:19.4

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0:25.4

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0:29.7

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0:44.0

Hello. We were sitting around in the senior common room at York discussing where

0:49.6

and where not to live in the city. Oh don't go near that round for his factory. not anywhere near the river,

0:53.0

don't go near that round for his factory,

0:55.0

said the English professor.

0:56.0

You can smell the after-eats while you're having your dinner.

0:58.0

And not anywhere near the river,

1:00.0

said the woman from Social Admin.

1:01.0

We lived there once and the ooze came halfway up our

1:04.1

front room window. Well, it was then that the man from computer science mentioned a

1:09.8

well-known street near the city centre. It's got a club, a couple of very, very good restaurants, he said admiringly.

1:16.0

Oh, yes, said the lecturer for a medieval history.

1:20.0

All very well, if you fancy living in a gay area. Well, it's not uncommon now to hear streets and

1:25.9

districts and sometimes even towns described as gay as old Compton Street

1:30.0

in London and Manchester's Canal Street. Or how about Brighton or perhaps Hebden Bridge recently

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