"This book will likely find appeal ... among social scientists, planners, and architects seeking insights into the shifting character of post-pandemic urban living in the twenty-first century. ... considering the disparaging and supercilious comments from a few ostensibly cisgender colleagues ... encountered by the editors in the early stages of The Life and Afterlife, Professors Bitterman and Hess are to be commended for their commitment to producing an informative and courageous study." (Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research, September 13, 2022)

"The book is scholastic ... and serve as impetuses for future research. ... The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods provides methodologies and concept grounds for this approach and is an invaluable resource for planners, sociologists and designers to both confront and integrate notions of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice into education, research, scholarship and practice." (Michael A. Richards, Town Planning Review, Vol. 94 (1), January, 2023)
"The volume is a stimulating and enjoyable anthology, which is on the whole well written and richly illustrated. Notably, it remains low on jargon and thus accessible to audiences beyond academia or the professional realm. ... The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods will find-and reward-multiple audiences, a process aided by its democratizing open-access availability." (Manish Chalana, Journal of the American Planning Association, June 9, 2022)