Lesbian Community

In the essay “Traveling on the Bowlertown Underground: The Formation of a Lesbian Community,” the author, Tamara Pope Roghaar; an anthropology student, tries to explain the formation of a lesbian community in a fictional city called Bowlertown. This is a good topic for a study and an essay because as the author said most of the publicized literature about gay communities have been targeted towards gay men and not very much information is available about lesbian communities. This city has a population of about 33,000 with surrounding areas amounting to 70,000 people, and the city itself is all urban, this hints to me that the city in which this study takes place is comparable to Lisle, which is good because it is like an average American city. This is a good city to do an investigation in because as it is said in the essay, people already know about the lesbian communities in the larger cities like New York, or San Francisco where the gay community congregate, for instance, in b...