Book Talk | Sylvie Tissot | Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris with the author Sylvie Tissot, in conversation with Christina B. Hanhardt, on October 18th at 12:00 PM.

Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Political Science at University of Paris 8. Her research focuses on the intersection of class analysis and urban studies. Her previous book, Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End (Verso, 2015), reveals the ambivalent way in which upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity. She is also a founder of the collective Les Mots Sont Importants (Words Matter) and engages in debates on feminism, race, and religion. Her book Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris is out now with Polity (2023).  

Christina B. Hanhardt is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the history of U.S. cities and social movements, with close attention to the interplay of sexuality, race, and political economy. She is the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke), which won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. She is currently at work on a new book titled “Left Out” that engages debates in queer theory and politics to track the history of stigma in U.S. left social movements.