I learned a new word today, "hetrification".
Now P-Town knows how South Boston felt when gays crashed the Irish Catholic safe space of the St Patrick's Day parade, and yuppies gentrified the neighborhood.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/08/08/researchers-warn-bachelorette-parties-in-provincetown-are-destroying-lgbtq-safe-spaces/?p1=hp_primary (https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/08/08/researchers-warn-bachelorette-parties-in-provincetown-are-destroying-lgbtq-safe-spaces/?p1=hp_primary)
Researchers warn bachelorette parties in Provincetown are destroying LGBTQ+ safe spaces
"We know the end of this story because we know how gentrification works."
By Dialynn Dwyer
August 8, 2022 | 10:02 AM
Two researchers are sounding the alarm over the damage caused by bachelorette parties taking over safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people, warning that the presence of the bridal celebrations often destroys the locations for the individuals who created them in the first place.
Vincent Jones II, an assistant professor of community health and director of the Health Promotion Center at York College, and Laurie Essig, a professor and director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College and author of “Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, Big White Weddings, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter,” wrote in The Boston Globe that the process of taking over LGBTQ+ spaces is called “hetrification.” The researchers said that like gentrification, hetrification occurs when people feel “privileged to take over spaces of others” and is fundamentally about money. ...