ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT) issue by focusing, on one hand, on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race through a critical spatial lens, and, on the other, the normative imperatives of planning theory and practice. Interrogative studies on sexuality and space have been propelled by theoretical and empirical work at the intersection of critical geography and queer theory. The West Village in New York City is often held up as the epicenter of the LGBT rights movement in the United States. During the Stonewall Rebellion, in June 1969, queers fought back en masse after yet another police raid on a bar. The Christopher Street Liberation Day, the precursor to the annual Pride Parade, took place a year later in 1970. Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE) has been successful in holding to a radical and transformative political analysis, even while working with those in more traditional institutional structures.
