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A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture. The City Aroused is a lively history of urban development and its influence on queer political identity in postwar San Francisco. By reconstructing the planning and queer history of waterfront drinking establishments, Damon Scott shows that urban renewal was a catalyst for community organizing among racially diverse operators and patrons with far-reaching implications for the national gay rights movement. Following the exclusion of suspected homosexuals from the maritime trades in West Coast ports in the early 1950s, seamen's hangouts in the city came to resemble gay bars. Local officials responded by containing the influx of gay men to a strip of bars on the central waterfront while also making plans to raze and rebuild the area. This practice ended when city redevelopment officials began acquiring land in the early 1960s. Aided by law enforcement, they put these queer social clubs out of business, replacing them with heteronormative, desexualized land uses that served larger postwar urban development goals. Scott argues that this shift from queer containment to displacement aroused a collective response among gay and transgender drinking publics who united in solidarity to secure a place in the rapidly changing urban landscape

Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Permissions -- Epigraphs -- CONTENTS -- The Classroom -- A Warning -- The Vulgar, Not the Vulgate -- Clowns -- Bubbles -- Tiresias' Secret -- Choke Me -- Solomon Kane's Demon -- The Face of Nakedness -- Alone with Enki -- Fuckzilla -- Solidarity -- Akiko's Boys -- Prince and Lady -- Generous Promiscuity -- Acknowledgements.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imprisoned in the American Dream: Cold War America and the Origins of the Counterculture, 1945 to 1965 -- 2. Something Happening: The Emergence of the Counterculture, 1965 to 1967 -- 3. Vibrations across the Nation: The Expansion of the Counterculture, 1967 to 1970 -- Photo Gallery -- 4. Freaks and Harries Everywhere: The Rise of the Countersociety and Its Apogee, 1970 to 1972 -- 5. Changing the World: The Politicization of the Counterculture and Its Decline, 1972 to 1974 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Foreword -- Pernilla Leviner -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview and Context -- 1.2 Practical and Legal Challenges Relating to Children -- 1.3 Drugs, International Law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 1.4 Argumentation and Institutional Practice: a Critical Approach -- 1.5 Outline and Summary -- 2 Detachment and Convergence: the History of Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Children and Early Multilateral Drug Controls -- 2.3 The Bedrock of the System -- 2.4 Upheaval in the 1960s -- 2.5 The 1971 Convention -- 2.6 'An Especially Serious Threat to the Youth of the World': a Change in Tone and the 1972 Protocol -- 2.7 'A Danger of Incalculable Gravity': the 1988 Convention -- 2.8 A Human Right: Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3 Fragmentation: the Treaty Framework -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The UN Drug Conventions -- 3.3 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 3.4 The Treaties as Frames of Reference: Complementarity or Conflict? -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Contention: the Politics of Article 33 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Human Rights and Drug Control 'Positions' -- 4.3 Thematic Points of Disagreement -- 4.4 Article 33 and Its Relationship to the Drug Conventions -- 4.5 Resolution through the VCLT and Conflict Rules? -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 The Committee on the Rights of the Child: Content, Balance and Normative Framing of Concluding Observations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data Collection -- 5.3 Is a 'Dialogue' Taking Place? -- 5.4 The Content and Balance of Concluding Observations -- 5.5 Normative Framing -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 Drug Laws, Policies and Interventions: Monitoring 'Appropriate Measures'? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Appropriate Measures' -- 6.3 Drug Laws and Policies -- 6.4 Response to Specific Information Raising Human Rights Concerns -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Dynamics of Structural Bias -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Committee's 'Preferences' -- 7.3 Practical Considerations -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1 The Content of Article 33 and the Relationship between the Regimes -- 8.2 What Kind of Norm is Article 33? -- Annex 1: Content and Structure of the Drug Conventions -- Annex 2: Content and Structure of the CRC -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction: Living while black is an extreme sport -- Nigger fight story -- Street cred -- Bomb-ass poetry -- Your turn -- No homo -- Driver's ed -- Three niggas -- Obama bomaye -- Broke -- How to make the internet hate you in 15 simple steps -- Banging over bacon -- Yolo -- Living while black killed my mom -- East liberty kutz -- Thursday-night hoops -- Zoe.

Sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. He came from a great family, in a home full of God, love, support, and opportunities to reach any goal. A natural born leader, an athlete with good looks and charm, he appeared to be the all-American kid pursuing his dreams. Underneath this facade, however, was an addict in the early stages of disease. After suffering childhood sexual abuse by a babysitter at the age of nine, Damon began putting chemicals into his body to alter the way he felt. Once he was introduced to methamphetamines, however, he became instantly hooked and the lives of so many innocent people would forever be changed by the choices he made in order to feed his insatiable meth habit. After a fateful discussion during his incarceration with a seasoned convict, Damon had a spiritual awakening. He learned that, like a coffee bean changing with the application of heat and pressure, he was capable of changing the environment around him. Armed with a program of recovery, a renewed faith, and a miraculous second chance at life, Damon emerged from over seven years of prison a changed man. His story of redemption continues to inspire audiences today