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What’s Queer about Queer Spaces Now?: What We Can Learn about Resistance from the Geographies of New York City, 1983-2008. Gentrification of gayborhoods. The end of lesbias bars. Commodification of queer culture. Sexualization of lesbians, gay men, and trans people. Rights that come and go, attacks that never seem to end, and public and self-policing. A rainbow we only see come June. Is queer space just for Pride? Are we really “post-gay,” as many argue? No. Queers and queer spaces are needed more than ever. Jen Jack Gieseking is an urban cultural geographer, feminist and queer theorist, environmental psychologist, and American Studies scholar. S/he is engaged in research on co-productions of space and identity in digital and material environments. Jack’s work pays special attention to how such productions support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in regards to gender and sexuality. S/he is working on her second book project, Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queer Women, 1983-2008, and conducting research on trans people’s use of Tumblr as a site of cultural production. S/he is Assistant Professor of Public Humanities in American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.