Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Zoning out Sex

Ethics, politics and sex.  Is the 'neighborhood' dangerous to city planning? Only if, as the author points out on page 189, that the fantasy is that sexuality only happens in the home.  Zoning helps to keep the heirarchy as it exists today, alive and well.  We all visit communities that don't share our mailing address, some of us have made regular visits to neighborhoods we don't call home in order to express or share our sexuality.  I feel sometimes, that I simply find new ways to devise an old sentence in order to rephrase a similar question.  Here it is:   In order to enable or allow those whose sexuality does not always conform to the top of the food chain, queer politics must have public representation  on City Planning Commissions that establish these zoning laws-right?

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