Friday, April 30, 2004

Salon.com Life | Out of the closet and behind the gate
"The first gated community marketed at gays and lesbians is under construction in a small Florida town. Will it be a queer utopia -- or one more sign of the fragmentation of America?"

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You may recall that the Public Policy Institute of California's recently published study about HOAs and gated communities concluded that this fragmentation was not taking place. They used quantitative methods and good data sources. But it is very hard to pick up the kind of fine-grained fragmentation that developers can create with HOAs. I don't know whether this gated community is being marketed as the Slate article says, but if it is, (and how about calling this niche the "gayted" community?) you'd never identify it using normal social science methodology.

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