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Processes of gentrification ranked at the top among the reasons for closing included in the Facebook post. Photo: Dreamyshade. Yet these claims of lesbian-queer assimilationist extinction are unfounded. Instead, to understand the project of queering urban space, we must read queerness both in, across, and beyond cities.

A decade before the Lex closed in San Francisco, queer geographers and scholars writing broadly on queer space took a much-needed turn backwards queer anti-urbanism Halberstam At the same time, certain queer cities remain objects of reverence, along with the middle-class cosmopolitanism that they represent Herring Now there are three — and none of these primarily serve people of color.

Still, New York City is one of the cities to host the most lesbian bars in the world; there are two lesbian bars left in the entire UK. If we are to ever bar beyond queer urbanism as a default model of queer space, then we must also look at lesbian-queer spaces that include and go beyond the lesbian bar.

What if we were to look again to how queers resist cis-heteropatriarchy in order to create urban space? This ability to create and claim queer physical spaces is also mirrored in the digital realm. In Novemberjust over five years after the Lex bar closed, the Lex. Since its launch, the upscale New York Magazine posited that the Lex.

This is Lex, Lex. Nov 5, With the long-time fixation on bars as defining the lesbian queer space, what if the fall of lesbian bars in North Calgary and Europe is not an end, but a beginning? The Lex app is evidence gay lesbians and queers have not assimilated but rather adapted.

A Tale of Two Lexes: a Lesbian-Queer Anti-Assimilationist Approach to Queering Space

In the ways lesbians and queers survive and thrive on the Lex. I see people looking for advice and love, sex and connection — and below each of their names is a physical place. Cifor The attendees and users of Lex — Lexes both past and present — never assimilated or disappeared. Lesbians and queers cannot economically and politically afford to hold on to, let alone build, physical spaces in ever-increasingly expensive cities, and lesbian-queer specific spaces are often absent beyond these cities.

Instead, queers on the Lex. Jen Jack Gieseking is an urban cultural geographer, feminist and queer theorist, and environmental psychologist. Jack can be found at jgieseking. Many thanks to Elizabeth W. Williams, Nick Lally, and Nari Senanyake for their comments. All mistakes are my own. Talk at the University of Kentucky, Department of Geography.