● LGBT NYC Historic Sites Project, 2017 ● MAPD Twitter Data, 2017
● Data from This Study’s Survey , 2017
● Tax Lots of New York City Map Pluto 16v2: Department of City Planning, 2016 ● New York City Neighborhood Boundaries: Bytes New York, 2014
● New York City Borough Boundary 15b: Department of City Planning, 2015 ● Tri-State Water Bodies: Department of City Planning, 2006, Joined 2008 ● New York City Open-Spaces: Department of City Planning, Date Unknown ● Tri-State Region State Boundaries: Department of City Planning, Date Unknown
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138 Recruitment Flyer Back: Information Sheet
Instructions for participation 1. Go to (website url)
2. Read the information and instructions provided on the website 3. Follow the links that says "Take Survey"
4. After you have answered all the questions that you would like to, click "Submit Survey" button. 5. Repeat! The more sites you value the better, though only submit one survey per building.
Benefits
Your participation in filling out one or more surveys (as many as you want!) will hopefully benefit the LGBTQ+ community by allowing for more visibility of LGBTQ+ cultural heritage as well as benefit the architectural preservation field by offering insight on what sites are most valued by the LGBTQ+ community. It hopes to find out what sites need better advocacy and attention. Participants will be aiding in research that also aims to help develop tools that can raise awareness of resources in their community and in turn can give the community more tools and resources to advocate for such cultural resources.
Risks
As the LGBTQ+ population is often subject to societal prejudices, this survey keeps all participants anonymous at all times. There are thus no potential risks involved in this research, as no personal identifying information of participants will be gathered at any time. The survey questions are not triggering in any way, as they do not ask unnecessarily personal questions. Participants can stop taking the survey at any time and choose to not fill in any or all questions. The survey taker's online information will be kept private through Squarespace in accordance with their privacy policies and only the anonymous survey responses will be sent to researcher's confidential Columbia University Google drive. All addresses offered by participants that are then mapped will be kept as general area pins to keep locations general to protect the site.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, contact Stacy Tomczyk at [email protected] or Erica Avrami at [email protected].
139 Online Survey:
Participants had to acknowledge all of the following before taking the survey:
○ Responses will be used for Columbia University Master’s thesis research. ○ No personal identifying information will be gathered nor used in thesis report. ○ Participant can choose to leave any answers blank.
○ Participant can quit this questionnaire at any time. ○ Participant is LGBTQ identifying person or LGBTQ ally.
The name of the site as well as any nicknames, the address and location were asked as basic questions that would allow the study to map the site. Then, more traditional questions for such a survey were asked to set an indicator for things that might put the site at a higher level of attention. Each of these are also multiple choice in order to make the data more quantifiable and mappable. These questions included:
● Does the site still exist? ● What is its current use? ● What is its condition? ● Is it historical?
● Does it deserve protection? ● Is it in danger in some way?
The participants were asked to provide two major free response questions that sought to form the qualitative and more narrative information to supplement the quantified responses. These questions included:
● Do you have any additional comments or information about the site? ● Why is this place significant?
The part of the survey that directly was attempting to quantify and assess value, was a question that asked people to rank how significant the site was to various levels of society. The question was, “How important is this place as an LGBTQ site…” It then had the subquestions as follows:
● To me?
140 ● To the neighborhood it is in?
● To New York City? ● To the country? ● To the world?
Then for each sub-question the participant would then chose one answer from the multiple choice answers:
● Not important at all ● Not that important ● Somewhat important ● Very important ● Extremely important
The survey then asked, “Is this place significant to any specific group of people in particular? (select all that may apply)” This question was aimed at getting at intersectionality within the LGBTQ community and included many options for identity to be as open as possible to the possible constituency around the site.
This was a multiple response question and included the following choices: ● Lesbian identifying ● Gay identifying ● Bisexually identifying ● Transgender identifying ● Queer identifying ● Non-binary identifying ● Male identifying ● Female identifying ● Black people ● Hispanic people ● Asian people ● White people ● other
141 ● do not know
● do not wish to disclose
This question was followed by a free response question asking “If other, who?”
The last two questions ask the participant’s age group as well as their zip code in order to give some idea if the person lived in New York and the range of location of participants.