Profit-driven owners cap how far a space becomes private territory

Evidence

Inasmuch as the Hangout is defined first as a public drinking place and only alternatively as a home territory for homosexuals, the degree to which the invasion of outsiders can be curtailed by the indigenous population is limited. The interest of the owner in maintaining the bar as a profitable establishment tends to set the limits on the degree to which the bar can be converted into a private territory. In this sense, then, no outsider can be forceably removed from the area unless he can be categorized as a public nuisance. But on the part of the indigenous population, the difference between legitimate customers and public nuisances is often vague and in general almost all outsiders are classified somewhere in between, as objects which can be officially treated in improper ways. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 765

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how economic ownership bounds territorial claims in public space — parallels the Lofland/Simmel tension the reader is tracking.