Geography and sexuality: Why space (still) matters

Hubbard, Phil

doi:10.1177/1363460718779209

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“…Topics studied include: the experience and embodied performance of sexuality in different spaces (e.g. homes, streets and workplaces, and in urban and rural settings), including both discrimination and affirmation of LGBTIQ+ people across these sites; legal transformations and sexual citizenship at the national scale; the territorialisation and evolution of LGBTIQ+ neighbourhoods; the geographies of same‐sex families; LGBTIQ+ migration at international and national scales; LGBTIQ+ mobilities and placemaking; LGBTIQ+ tourism and festivals; and global sex work (Bell & Valentine, 1995; Browne & Ferreira, 2015; Browne, Lim & Brown, 2007; Gorman‐Murray & McKinnon, 2015; Hubbard, 2018; Johnston & Longhurst, 2009).…”

Section: Geography Of Sexualities: Opportunities For Further Intersec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ageing, sexualities and place: Aligning the geographies of gerontology and sexualities

2022

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The spatial studies of both sexualities and gerontology have been established as subfields within the discipline of geography, but there are few studies that combine both strands of literature and examine old age and sexualities from a spatial perspective. Our aim is to highlight the contribution geographers can make to this research, which is based on the assertion that experiences of both ageing and sexualities are intrinsically linked to place. We first outline the subfields of sexualities and gerontology within geography and then review the work that has drawn on both of those literatures–within and beyond geography–with a focus on LGBTIQ+ older adults. We then propose a number of spatial enquiries into ageing and sexualities that will enable a better understanding of the spatial uses, needs and preferences of the older LGBTIQ+ population. The proposed areas of research include: generational changes and relations with gay communities, spaces and neighbourhoods; retirement migration; aged‐care facilities and services; ageing‐in‐place and in‐home care; lesbians, queer women and ageing; trans* ageing; Indigeneity; intersectionality; and digital spaces. We argue that advancing this research will contribute to the establishment of a queer geographical gerontology that enhances our understanding of older LGBTIQ+ adults and their lifeworlds.

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Section: Geography Of Sexualities: Opportunities For Further Intersec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ageing, sexualities and place: Aligning the geographies of gerontology and sexualities

2022

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“…(Homo-)Sexuelle Lust jenseits der Metropole das Loch ist hinter der Toilettenpapierrolle versteckt, siehe Abbildung 1). Dies zeigt neue Formen der Interaktion zwischen virtueller und physischer Kontaktaufnahme sowie Praktiken, bei denen der physische Raum seine zentrale Relevanz weiterhin behält (Hubbard 2018).…”

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(Homo-)Sexuelle Lust jenseits der Metropole

Martínez¹,

Kallitsis

2022

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Bereits seit Jahrzehnten beschweren sich queere Aachener_innen darüber, dass ihnen die lebendigere Subkultur der 1980er und 1990er Jahre fehle. Die wenigen queeren Räume in der Innenstadt sind heute institutionalisiert und konzentrieren sich meist auf soziale Arbeit oder ehrenamtliches Engagement – distanziert von Elementen der Lust und sexueller Begegnung. In den vergangenen 50 Jahren lassen sich jedoch zahlreiche Beispiele für Raumproduktionen finden, die auf eine belebte Klappenkultur und eine Sexualisierung von Räumen hinweisen. In Parkanlagen, öffentlichen Toiletten auf Bahnhöfen oder in Hochschulgebäuden sowie über Dating-Apps haben Männer, die Sex mit anderen Männern suchten, trotz – oder gerade wegen des erzkatholischen Glaubens in der Stadt Aachen – immer wieder neue Cruising-Orte für sich kreieren können. Die Schaffung dieser Räume, die Verbreitung des Wissens über sie, ihre Nutzung – der gesamte Prozess um das cruising herum war in Aachen, ebenso wie in vielen anderen (Groß-)Städten, aufgrund gesetzlicher Regelungen und sozialer Normen jahrzehntelang versteckt, tabuisiert, schambehaftet und geächtet. Dieser Beitrag deckt diese (zumindest für die Mehrheitsgesellschaft) verborgene und unbekannte Welt der Aachener Klappen-Kultur auf. Der Artikel stützt sich auf Archivrecherchen und Interviews mit queeren Zeitzeugen verschiedener Generationen. Diese kombinierte Methodik bietet Einblicke in die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und erwartete Zukunft von Aachens intimen Raumproduktionen. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es, queere sexuelle Lust in einer Stadt außerhalb des deutschen LSBTIQ+-Mainstreams zu kartieren, sichtbar zu machen und über seine Entwicklung innerhalb des vergangenen halben Jahrhunderts zu reflektieren.

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“…LGBT people articulate their fear of discrimination and violence among other things around concepts of space or 'sexual geography'. Space still matters in questions of sexual conduct despite digitisation of the queer cyberspace, social media and internationalisation (Spruce 2020, p. 964;Hubbard 2018).…”

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Border Regimes: Homophobia and LGBT Place Making in Six Ordinary Cities in Europe

Klett-Davies¹

2021

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European nation states increasingly hail LGBT identities as part of modern values; LGBT recognitions have become a symbol of secular achievements. Discourses around gay rights and sexual diversity are increasingly pitted against presumably homophobic and intolerant ‘others’. An increased intolerant and repressive attitude towards migrants and racialised minorities is justified by their supposed threat to exactly these values. LGBT people are finding themselves positioned as ‘border patrollers’ who can count as part of the modern liberal nation. This paper analyses 92 interviews with LGBT participants who live in six small and medium sized ordinary cities in Europe. It discusses how their fear of homophobia is evaluated according to perceived sexual and gendered norms and attitudes at the neighbourhood level. Neighbourhoods are considered either LGBT friendly or unfriendly according to their socio-demographic characteristics that focus on social class and/or migration and that intersects with race, ethnicity and religion. Based on the findings, neighbourhoods are both a geographical and a cultural terrain that can be understood, organised and contested through a sexuality discourse in the production of border regimes that discipline and produce the confines of the normative, the ‘modern’ and the ‘backward’. Not only are LGBT people positioned as border patrollers but their fear of homophobia is also expressed through bordering. The neighbourhood can then be understood, organised and contested through a sexuality discourse in the production of border regimes.

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Geography and sexuality: Why space (still) matters

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Ageing, sexualities and place: Aligning the geographies of gerontology and sexualities

Ageing, sexualities and place: Aligning the geographies of gerontology and sexualities

(Homo-)Sexuelle Lust jenseits der Metropole

Border Regimes: Homophobia and LGBT Place Making in Six Ordinary Cities in Europe

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