For Holleran, too, the historical suggestiveness and ruinous dereliction of these spaces are markers of the harbor’s temporal and spatial disjunction from the rest of the city and from heteronormative sexual cultures and productivity—and so add to its appeal as a cruising space, in terms of both safety and fantasy. One of Holleran’s friends, an “alumnus of the Mineshaft,” ponders what will happen “if Westway [a proposed development] is ever built” and “the shoreline made pretty by city planners”:
