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Thirdly, and most importantly, those afflicted by AIDS were risk-takers living in an oppositional subculture who paid the financial price for being out of the closet and community-oriented, and for pioneering new art ideas.

For that reason, many of the gay people who died of AIDS did not own their apartments, but rather relied on the cheap rents that made the East Village a welcoming homeland; their deaths increased the number of rental apartments available in such large numbers that the demographic of the neighborhood was rapidly transformed.

As a result, their apartments went at market rates, thereby speeding up the gentrification process and turning the East Village from an interracial enclave of immigrants and artists into a destination location for wealthy diners and shoppers in less than a decade. And it transformed the more monied West Village from a long-term gay neighborhood into one dominated by double-income heterosexuals, and then in turn by celebrities, as new gay arrivals shifted to Chelsea.

Today, the West Village is predominantly a straight neighborhood, and the gay property owners who remain there are elitist to the point that they have a famously antagonistic relationship with the young black gay men and lesbians who have socialized on the streets and piers of the West Village since World War II.

Their gay predecessors, who died of AIDS, socialized on those same streets and piers in one of the most well-known public sex communities in American history. With their disappearance, gay life in the West Village is expected to take place indoors, and thus out of sight, by people who are white and upper-class. Plata by Ivy Mason. Built for Power by Kathleen Brooks. Double Double by Ken Grimes. Your Rating:. Your Comment:.

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The lives of a homosexual and two lesbians, one of whom works in the New York City pest control office. All three were rejected by their families because of their sexual orientation. A look at the culture gap between straights and gays. There are no reviews yet. My main focus, however, is its questioning of love. Rat Bohemia grapples with several identities that I cannot relate to, but I do know about being lonely and gay and struggling with the what-ifs of lonely gay love.

People talk about how Love Trumps Hate, but my real question is if love can be stronger than denial and tragedy and exhaustion. How can two hurt people love each other without their own individual traumas clashing?

Rat Bohemia skillfully explores these conflicts as it sketches out the lives of gay men abandoned by dying boyfriends and indifferent siblings; gay women abandoned by ashamed girlfriends and disgusted fathers; entire gay communities abandoned by the very cities that they raised from infancy.

But despite its constant unrequited hunger, Rat Bohemia puts up a small smile at the end.