ABSTRACT
This chapter takes into account the ways politics of resource distribution, immigration, cultural pluralism and multiculturalism, segregation and gentrification, to name a few dynamics, shape urban space and therefore are related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) people and issues in urban education. Urban has come to connote many different things, of course, but at its most essential level, it denotes meaning about physical and imaginary space. The work of researchers, educators, and policy makers, locally and nationally, in both metropolitan and rural locales is related to LGBTQQ people and issues in urban education. LGBTQ people living in urban communities experience some real advantages that their rural and suburban counterparts do not. Human Rights Watch, for example, found that “harassment against LGBTQ students of color is prevalent and is usually combined with racial and ethnic harassment”.
