A Queer New York Indigenous Wasn’t it always part of

Wasn’t it always part of their lives

in an explosive

one that can never reconcile itself with her existence

With lyric and tonal dexterity

while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion

A Queer New York Indigenous Wasn’t it always part ofBy Jen Jack Gieseking Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York