James Michael Buckley

San Francisco’s continued economic boom threatens to displace much of its culturally diverse population, including LGBTQ residents who have made the city a center of the national and international struggle for civil rights and equitable treatment. Queer activists and their preservation allies have worked together to apply several new cultural preservation strategies to help LGBTQ people maintain their place in the city and preserve their significant local cultural heritage. This article examines three particular strategies—the Legacy Business Program, a citywide LGBTQ Cultural Heritage Strategy, and a series of cultural districts—to consider their effectiveness in preserving the tangible remains of LGBTQ heritage and sustaining contemporary queer culture in an increasingly unaffordable city. The analysis yields several recommendations for advocates of preserving LGBTQ culture in rapidly changing, high cost communities: develop tools that move beyond traditional preservation methods to capture the intangible aspects of culture; act at a citywide scale and in a manner that includes the broad range of LGBTQ practices and perspectives; integrate economic and community development strategies into standard preservation methods; and recognize the salience of identities other than and in addition to queer as part of an intersectional approach to sustaining the city’s diverse cultural heritage.

Public heritage practice in American cities has largely focused on the physical landscape of the European-based majority culture. As the nation’s urban areas continue to become more culturally diverse, preservationists have begun to explore new approaches to serve
the needs of minority populations through community development planning. Examples include programs in San Francisco that focus less on physical fabric and more on the intangible cultural aspects associated with marginalized groups, and the work of Project Row Houses in Houston, which uses the historic building fabric of an African-American
minority community as a canvas for expressing the group’s experience within the majority society. While US public heritage practice still lags behind in its representation of America’s diversity, the ability of preservationists to combine more subjective tools like
intangible culture and artistic place-making with community development planning can help prevent the displacement of minority cultures from their traditional locations due to development pressure.

Driving across California's San Joaquin Valley, past miles of fields and orchards, the traveler encounters small farm towns every few miles. Along one particular country road, off Highway 99 almost twenty miles southeast of Fresno, a 1960s-era neon sign catches the traveler's ...

The redwood lumber industry of California is a characteristic example of western industrial development. The rapid harvesting of the redwood forest produced a dramatically new landscape of industrial capitalism, characterized by huge processing plants, diminished forests, and a form of settlement found throughout the West: the company town. Scotia, the home of the Pacific Lumber Company, represents one of many experiments in the use of architectural form to create a modern, stable industrial community. It reinterpreted for a new corporate leadership the earlier, paternalistic visions of individual factory proprietors like George Pullman. Pacific Lumber's attempt to create order out of the haphazard mill village represented a conscious effort to design a structured physical and social work community that would regularize the unpredictable character of labor.

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