Description: Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark's queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Review Quotes: "The book snuffs out the dominant view of the city, one ethnography and endnote at a time. . . . The whole book is a marvel. . . . Books on queer life outside the largest US cities remain rare, and for Newark and New Jersey they are almost nonexistent. . . . Queer Newark is the first but, one hopes, not the last of its kind. . . . As well as preserving queer stories and scenes that might have gone undocumented, Queer Newark seeks to re-eroticize the hood. While academic queer theory too often neglects the classed dimensions of sexuality, most of the book's chapters explicitly center working-class and queer people of color struggling with the material effects of ghettoization."-- "n+1"