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- Who Needs Gay Bars? : Bar-Hopping Through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet..
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- Sexuality & Culture Sexuality & Culture offers an international forum for analysis of ethical, cultural, psychological, social, and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. Coverage extends to sexual consent and sexual responsibility; harassment and freedom of speech; privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film and literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships, such as interracial relationships and student-professor relationships.
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About Sex in Space: Communities of Sexualities
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for WR152: Sex in Space: Communities of Sexualities
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- Why We Swipe: Looking for Love in Online Places (The Brink) COM’s Katy Coduto researches how people use dating apps and what they expect of them.
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- Online Dating Creates New Forms of Digital Racism: Sociologist Celeste Curington Explains Why (BU CISS) Research finds that sexual racism, or the act of ranking “individuals as romantic partners in a way that reinforces ideas of racial hierarchy,” runs rampant in dating. The anonymity built into the design of online dating apps, the contemporary context of neoliberal colorblindness or “not seeing race”, consumerism and the rise of new digital technologies, disguises enduring racial discrimination in intimate life.
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- The Woman Who Made Online Dating into a 'Science' (The Atlantic) A biological anthropologist discusses the science of dating apps and love.
Featured Resource: Associated Press Images Collection
In this Wednesday, July 30, 2014 photo, the solar deck of the North Hollywood Spa is viewed in Los Angeles. Gay bathhouses that once were shut down by laws or public outcry are facing a new pressure: lack of interest. A generation ago, bathhouses thrived at society’s fringes, offering a discreet haven for friends and lovers to meet. Now, as homosexuality heads mainstream and hooking up is done online, competition means change for bathhouses. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.