TY - BOOK AU - Delany,Samuel R. AU - Reid-Pharr,Robert F. TI - Times Square red, Times Square blue T2 - Sexual cultures SN - 9781479827770 (pb : alk. paper) AV - HQ 146 D337t 2019 U1 - 338.4/7306709747 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Sex industry KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Sex customs KW - Male homosexuality KW - Urban renewal KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Prostitución KW - Historia KW - Nueva York (Estados Unidos) KW - Costumbres sexuales KW - Homosexualidad masculina KW - Rehabilitación urbana KW - Siglo XX KW - Times Square (New York, N.Y.) KW - Social life and customs KW - Times Square (Nueva York, N.Y.) KW - Vida social y costumbres KW - Social conditions KW - Condiciones sociales N1 - The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments ix Writer's Preface xi Part 1. Times Square Blue 1 Part 2... Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red 109 Works Cited 201 N2 - Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City. In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children's theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany's groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue ER -