Riding the Dialectical Waves of Gay Political Economy: A Story from Birmingham's Commercial Gay Scene

Bassi, Camila

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00577.x

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“…They suggest that policy-makers, far from trying to eradicate commercial sex, are seeking to render it more palatable and less 'sleazy' by encouraging corporate venues that can be marketed as part of a diverse package of urban entertainment. The corporatisation of gay-sex venues (or adult entertainment shows like Casa Rosso in Amsterdam) can for example be read as the expression of an urban neoliberal capitalism that commodifies particular sexualities (Bassi 2006). Some of the new 'creative' entrepreneurs also explicitly embrace the identity of the Red Light District and, for example, refer to sex work in their Downloaded by [University Library Utrecht] at 03:27 03 November 2017 branding -like Red Light Radio, or the café Quartier Putain in Amsterdam -even though no sex work takes place there.…”

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The gentrification of progressive red-light districts and new moral geographies: the case of Amsterdam and Zurich

Liempt

Chimienti

2017

Gender, Place & Culture

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Even though there is a long tradition of red-light districts (RLD) being concentrated within the city centre, gentrification policies in many European cities now aim at spatially dispersing the sex market (and its workers) to the fringes of the city. Moving RLDs out of the city centre (or transforming them into more-upscale entertainment provision) calls into question the physical place allotted to sex work in our cities, as well as the moral geography behind these decisions. This article examines urban regeneration processes in two particular European cities -Amsterdam and Zurich -both cities with a long history of progressive drug and sex-work policies where sex work has been part of the visible urban fabric. In the article we look at urban policies and the legal framework, as well as at moral reasoning and discourses around the legitimacy of moving sex-workers away from city centres. We argue that in both cities moral arguments play an important role in the legitimization of the transformation of the RLD which contributes to a new race and gender order that stigmatises sex-workers as a group as if they were all victims of trafficking.

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Section: What Changes Have Taken Place Through Plan 1012?mentioning

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The gentrification of progressive red-light districts and new moral geographies: the case of Amsterdam and Zurich

Liempt

Chimienti

2017

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Brown, 2012G. Brown, , 2009Andersson, 2011;Bassi, 2006;Oswin, 2005). While aware of these caveats, homonormativity helps us qualify a certain genre of neoliberal urbanism.…”

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Remaking South Beach: metropolitan gayborhood trajectories under homonormative entrepreneurialism

Kanai

Kenttamaa-Squires

2014

Urban Geography

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This paper contributes to research on metropolitan gayborhood trajectories and homonormative urban entrepreneurialism by assessing a South Florida case study. We probe allegations of gay men being displaced from South Beach and the opposing narrative of a sexually-diverse city with undiminished appeal. To that end, we present expert informant interviews, participant observation, media archives, and census data showing that the remade gayborhood coexists and competes with other, more affordable LGBT nodes. While socioeconomic, demographic and cultural characteristics differentiate these clusters, exploratory spatial data analysis indicates that the majority of metropolitan same-sex households reside elsewhere.We acknowledge Miami Beach's recent pro-equality efforts, yet argue that homonormative politics conditions them. Public-private actions adopt corporate formats, prioritizing tourist-oriented initiatives and spectacular events that promote non-threatening, market-friendly forms of sexual dissidence. The conclusion discusses implications for queer community-building in metropolitan regions fragmented by socio-spatial inequality and competitive city-marketing catering to heterogeneous yet exclusive global audiences.

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“…Reconhecer esses aspectos mais amplos da vida econômica de gays e lésbicas (BADGETT, 2001;BASSI, 2006;GLUCKMAN & REED, 1997) imediatamente eleva o debate para além do foco único sobre a sexualidade, passando a considerar a interseccionalidade da sexualidade com idade, classe, (d)eficiência, etnia e gênero. Além disso, no contexto de ataques neoliberais sobre a prestação do Estado e da privatização dos serviços (em particular no atual período de austeridade), é importante considerar como estes benefícios sociais estão sendo reconfigurados, quais condicionalidades estão embutidas, e como eles podem ser defendidos.…”

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Pensando Além da Homonormatividade: Explorações Performativas de Economias Gays Diversificadas.

Brown¹

2013

Revista Latino-ame

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This paper performatively decentres the role of mainstream gay consumption in contemporary thought about the economic and social lives of lesbians and gay men in the Global North. It is simultaneously critical and reparative in outlook. This paper critically engages with writing on homonormativity from the last decade, suggesting that this work presents`homonormativity' as an all-encompassing structure that becomes politically unassailable. In parallel with an analysis of contemporary lesbian and gay life as being complicit in the reproduction of various normativities, this paper takes the innovative and reparative stance of considering how such spaces and practices also produce interdependent relationships across social difference. Drawing on the work of Gibson-Graham (2006, 'A Postcapitalist Politics', University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN) this paper considers the prospects for outlining the diversity of lesbian and gay economic practices, with the performative ambition of making existing noncapitalist practices more visible and viable. To this end, the paper examines a number of gay spaces and practices to consider the different forms of enterprise, transactions, and labour that take place within them. On the basis of its preliminary inventory of diverse gay economic practices and spaces, this paper proposes that there are many aspects of contemporary urban gay life that already offer alternatives to the homonormative practices of neoliberalism.Keywords: Homonormativity; Economy; Gay. Resumo AbstractEste artigo performativamente descentra o papel do consumo gay nas correntes do pensamento contemporâneo sobre a vida econômica e social de lésbicas e gays no Norte Global. É ao mesmo tempo crítico e reparador nessa perspectiva. Este trabalho engaja-se criticamente com as obras da década passada sobre a homonormatividade, sugerindo que estes trabalhos apresentam a 'homonormatividade' como uma estrutura por demais abrangente e que se torna politicamente incontestável. Em paralelo com a análise contemporânea de como as vidas lésbicas e gays se tornam cúmplices na reprodução de diversas normatividades, este artigo assume a posição inovadora e reparadora de se considerar como tais espaços e práticas também produzem relações interdependentes entre diferenças sociais. Com base na obra de Julie Graham e Katherine Gibson, publicada em 2006, 'A Postcapitalist Politics', este artigo considera tais perspectivas para delinear a diversidade de práticas econômicas de lésbicas e gays, com a ambição performativa de fazer práticas não capitalistas existentes mais visíveis e viáveis. Para este fim, o artigo examina um número de espaços e práticas gays para analisar os diferentes formatos de empreendimentos, transações e trabalho que ocorrem dentro destas. Com base em um inventário preliminar das diversas práticas econômicas e espaços gays, este trabalho propõe que já existem muitos aspectos da vida gay urbana e contemporânea que já oferecem alternativas às práticas homonormativas do neoliberalismo Palavras -chave: Homonor...

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Riding the Dialectical Waves of Gay Political Economy: A Story from Birmingham's Commercial Gay Scene

Cited by 42 publications

References 14 publications

The gentrification of progressive red-light districts and new moral geographies: the case of Amsterdam and Zurich

The gentrification of progressive red-light districts and new moral geographies: the case of Amsterdam and Zurich

Remaking South Beach: metropolitan gayborhood trajectories under homonormative entrepreneurialism

Pensando Além da Homonormatividade: Explorações Performativas de Economias Gays Diversificadas.

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