Times Square red, Times Square blue
Edition
20th anniversary edition.
Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xxviii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series
Summary
"In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafés, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany's groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue."--nyupress.org viewed July 28, 2023.
Notes
"First published in paperback in 2001."--Title page verso.
Subjects
- Sex industry > New York (State) > New York.
- Sex customs > New York (State) > New York.
- Male homosexuality > New York (State) > New York.
- African American gay men > New York (State) > New York > History.
- Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
- Times Square (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
- Times Square (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs.
- Times Square (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions.