Queer Cultural Archipelagos are New to Us

Greene, Theodore M.

doi:10.1111/cico.12382

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“…Ghaziani (2019) uses ‘cultural archipelagos’ to capture Queerpsaces as spatially plural and culturally complex, in which groups that have been erased by traditional ‘gaybourhoods’– lesbians, transgender individuals and people of colour – can develop new political imaginaries. Greene (2019) develops this analogy to illuminate – even within traditional gaybourhoods – emergent multiple Queer counterpublics that nurture new inclusive identities, discourses and practices (see also Brown, 2007; Warner, 2000).…”

Section: Sex In the Gentrified Citymentioning

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‘Where the state freaks out’: Gentrification, Queerspaces and activism in postwar Beirut

Nagle¹

2021

Urban Studies

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In this article I illuminate the production and erasure of Queerspaces in Beirut as part of postwar gentrification. A dual Beirut has emerged within assemblages of sectarian power, sexual citizenship and political economy. Commercial Queerspaces tacitly incorporated into the neoliberal and sectarian state exist while the ‘Queer unwanted’– spaces and people deemed transgressive to the moral order – are violently erased by state and non-state actors. These dual spaces expose the limits on life for Queer communities. To analyse these dynamics, I turn to the testimonies of LGBTQ activists in Beirut in relation to the possibilities offered by Queerspace. While activists note the exclusions – class, gender and sexuality – of commercial Queerspace that restrain political agency, they have powerfully asserted radical intersectional politics into recent revolutionary anti-sectarian waves of protest. This politics is marked by articulating Queerness as a project of connecting marginality for all excluded groups in Lebanon’s postwar order and by a queering of sectarian/neoliberal space that has hitherto cleansed undesirable LGBTQ bodies. This article draws on extensive fieldwork in Beirut (2011 to 2020), thus permitting longitudinal research of LGBTQ activism.

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Section: Sex In the Gentrified Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, I examine the coproduction and erasure of Queerspaces in Beirut within the context of postwar gentrification and reconstruction. Second, I turn to the testimonies and debates of activists in Beirut about the potentiality of Queerspaces as sites where new claims of local citizenship arise out of insurgent place-making (Greene, 2019).…”

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‘Where the state freaks out’: Gentrification, Queerspaces and activism in postwar Beirut

Nagle¹

2021

Urban Studies

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“…Taking sexual plurality seriously includes studying the role of digital spheres and technology (Adams‐Santos, 2020; Cserni, 2020) as well as shifting pop‐up experiences (Ghaziani & Stillwagon, 2018) and ephemeral performance (Muñoz, 2009). Queer sexual space and community have existed beyond gayborhoods even if not legible to the mainstream for reasons related to gender, race, migrant status, and class (Bailey, 2014; Brown‐Saracino, 2011; Carrillo, 2018, 2019; Drexel, 1997; Greene, 2019; Taylor, 2008). This was true even in the early 20th century (Chauncey, 1994; Drexel, 1997; Faderman, 1992).…”

Section: Queer People and Placemakingmentioning

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Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

Chica

2021

Sociology Compass

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I call for a globally informed sociology of comparative placemaking that integrates historical and contemporary processes and includes the ephemeral, institutional, and personal. By placemaking, I am referring to the explicit or tacit cooperation among people to create, maintain, and give meaning to places in space through bodily occupation given differential resources and constraints. I review select place, space, and community‐based literature about urban, Black, migrant, LGBTQ, and international populations to think about how we can build upon and integrate multiple theoretical, methodological, and epistemological insights to form an explicit placemaking research agenda. A US focus on neighborhoods contrasts with a comparative examination of global urban networks, social polarization, and transformation of the built environment in the interdisciplinary field of global urban studies (Ren, 2018). I argue for a placemaking research agenda that bridges insight from US Urban Sociology with Global Urban Studies to consider how various structures and actors constrain and facilitate place projects. With a globally reaching and comparatively informed sociology of placemaking, we can illuminate our multi‐structured story of place and agency in context. We can answer questions about how and why we co‐create and are simultaneously disciplined by the process of creation.

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“…Very little research focuses specifically on LGBTQ people of color in small cities, let alone LGBTQ communities of color in small cities, despite the centrality of communities of color to small cities (Hunter and Robinson ) and demographic shifts toward majority–minority small cities (Camarillo ). Researchers have examined LGBTQ communities of color in large cities (Hunter ; Moore ), and how LGBTQ people of color navigate communities of color (Moore ) and largely white gayborhoods (Greene ), but whether and how these identity‐making processes apply to small city contexts remains under‐studied. In my own research, the presence of covert and overt racism within majority‐white LGBTQ communities and the absence of queer‐friendly communities of color were key factors in some participants’ migration to larger cities, whereas, for others, family ties and employment kept them rooted to their city.…”

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Theory Making from the Middle: Researching LGBTQ Communities in Small Cities

Forstie

2020

City & Community

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Urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community research in sociology has largely ignored LGBTQ communities in the most common urban form: small cities. In this article, I argue that LGBTQ communities in small cities are an underexplored source of theory making about LGBTQ communities more broadly, and I highlight the ways such research enhances LGBTQ community research. I first discuss a definitional framework of LGBTQ communities in small cities. In other words, what do we mean by small cities, and what do we mean by LGBTQ communities within them? I then discuss the handful of examples of research on LGBTQ communities in small cities, describing the kinds of theoretical questions such research raises. I examine specifically how small‐city LGBTQ communities shift our thinking about urban LGBTQ community research in the following four areas: social networks, spatial and temporal dimensions of community, identity intersections, and allyship. Next, I identify three reasons why a focus on small cities is necessary to theory making in LGBTQ and community research more broadly, including and moving beyond questions of representation. I conclude by highlighting the methodological diversity needed to effectively research LGBTQ communities in small cities and briefly address a few challenges in moving this field of research forward.

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Queer Cultural Archipelagos are New to Us

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

‘Where the state freaks out’: Gentrification, Queerspaces and activism in postwar Beirut

‘Where the state freaks out’: Gentrification, Queerspaces and activism in postwar Beirut

Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

Theory Making from the Middle: Researching LGBTQ Communities in Small Cities

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