Drawing from surveys of political attitudes and voting patterns among gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, Bailey's study is a revealing window into how sexual identity has fostered political alliances. The book investigates mayoral voting patterns in America's three largest cities-New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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Robert W. Bailey is associate professor of public policy administration at Rutgers University, Camden.
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Bailey, a political scientist who until his untimely death in 2001 was one of the foremost authorities on gay politics and voting patterns in large cities, blends data with detailed studies of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Birmingham, Alabama, to illustrate the role gays and lesbians play as distinctive members of urban political communities, where they have traditionally been part of liberal coalitions. Bailey argues that the ends of urban-based gay political involvement have had more to do with the definition and assertion of identity than with influencing the levers of economic policy-making. At a time when "identity politics" as a mode of analysis has fallen out of fashion in academic gay studies, Bailey compiles an impressive array of evidence that identity politics, at least in the urban setting, actually is becoming more important as municipal politicians seek to build coalitions and consensus.
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Despite the important legal and legislative changes made at the national and state levels, the lesbian and gay rights movement has made its most dramatic political impact in the cities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, African American, Voting Rights Act, United States, Jackson Heights, New Orleans, Park Slope, Board of Supervisors, Census Bureau, World War, Jefferson County, Lower East Side, Board of Estimate, City Hall, Mission Bay, West Hollywood, Eureka Valley, Metropolitan Community Church, Greenwich Village, Harvey Milk, Philadelphia Police Department, West Village, Asian American New!
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Despite the important legal and legislative changes made at the national and state levels, the lesbian and gay rights movement has made its most dramatic political impact in the cities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, African American, Voting Rights Act, United States, Jackson Heights, New Orleans, Park Slope, Board of Supervisors, Census Bureau, World War, Jefferson County, Lower East Side, Board of Estimate, City Hall, Mission Bay, West Hollywood, Eureka Valley, Metropolitan Community Church, Greenwich Village, Harvey Milk, Philadelphia Police Department, West Village, Asian American New!
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- Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action by Harrison C. White in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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