birlinterrupted:

remember, bathhouses and gay bars were closed in the name of children who might be lured within, who might see ‘obscenity’ in the public spaces near them. The act of bringing up the Child has historically been a method of disappearing societal undesirables like this is both hypersecurity logics (like Ive mentioned before, the idea of all Public Space as the sorta capitalist social authoritarianism of The Mall/Disney Land) combined w the sort of ideologies that fuel geographic gentrification. People should be more internally critical of these impulses, I believe