coalesce. In a similar way, Sarah Schulman, in The Gentrification of the Mind, argues that the urban process of “gentrification literally replaces mix with homogeneity, it enforces itself through the repression of diverse expression.” “Key to the gentrification mentality,” she writes, “is the replacement of complex realities with simplistic ones.”22 In light of Schulman’s theory of the gentrification of the mind, there is a clear and urgent political drive to my interest in documenting the queer life of New York’s abandoned waterfront in the 1970s.
