ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in the preceeding chapters of this book. The book raises a number of critical questions for planning practitioners and scholars, highlighting the ways that current planning practices have treated the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community as invisible, immoral, and insignificant. Recognizing the diversity of identities as expressed by local LGBT people can be challenging. Forsyth suggests using the more inclusive term, which is inclusive of a broader range of people from these marginalized communities. The central theme of the book is that planning practice has been based on heteronormative assumptions that frequently have negative impacts on LGBT individuals. The book explores a broad range of neighborhoods incorporate the residences and specific commercial enterprises of LGBT individuals. As Adler and Brenner describe in their commentary, the lesbian neighborhood they described in 1992 in Portland has been redeveloped, and its former lesbian residents have moved into poorer African-American neighborhoods.
