Queer space and alternate queer geographies: LBQ women and the search for sexual partners at two LGBTQ-friendly U.S. universities

Open to More: Queer Hookups, Temporalities, and Life Courses

“…While Pham's work is integral to the literature of queer hookups, it does not answer the question of how queer life courses shape behaviors among queer college students who hookup. Several authors have called for research focused specifically on the sexual experiences of those understudied within current literature (Barrios and Lundquist 2012; Heldman and Wade 2010; Pham 2017, 2019b, 2020; Spell 2016; Vrangalova 2014; Williams and Harper 2014). This paper answers that call by examining how envisioned queer life courses shape queer hookups.…”

“…(2019) examined emotional outcomes of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth and found that most had positive experiences with hooking up; however, their research assumed that LGB youth sought hookups as a way to alleviate minority stress, framing hookups in a sex‐negative light and ignoring other causal possibilities (including but not limited to the influence of the emerging adulthood stage of the life course linked to heterosexual hookups). Janelle Pham explored how institutional and subcultural factors impact and regulate public and private sexual acts in hookups between college women (2019a) and how LBQ women navigate among queer, heteronormative, and digital spaces to find partners (for hookups or more) (2020). While Pham's work is integral to the literature of queer hookups, it does not answer the question of how queer life courses shape behaviors among queer college students who hookup.…”