We are here to party? Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans leisurescapes beyond commercial gay scenes

Browne, Kath; Bakshi, Leela

doi:10.1080/02614367.2010.506651

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“…Queer‐friendly neighborhoods are emerging alongside the declining centrality of gayborhoods. This suggests some simple truths worth stating: we cannot represent the urban landscape as a binary of gayborhoods versus all other undifferentiated ‘straight spaces' (Frisch, ; Brown, ; Browne and Bakshi, : 181). The dichotomy is invalid––for neither is monolithic.…”

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‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

Ghaziani

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Journalists, activists and academics alike predict that gay neighborhoods in the United States will disappear, yet many of their claims are unsubstantiated or overly deter mined by economic factors. This article examines 40 years of media accounts to identify the mechanisms that explain why these urban areas are changing. I begin with the obser vation that the rate of assimilation of sexual minorities into mainstream society has accelerated in today's socalled 'postgay' era. Assimilation expands the residential imag ination of gays and lesbians beyond the boundaries of a specific neighborhood to the entire city itself. Furthermore, as sexual orientation recedes in centrality in everyday life, residents opine that few care if a person selfidentifies as gay or straight. These two respective mechanisms of expansion and cultural sameness bring existing economic wisdom into dialogue with a cultural and political perspective about how our shifting understandings of sexuality also affect the decisions we make about where to live and socialize.

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‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

Ghaziani

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…According to the American Psychological Association (2011), genderqueer individuals "may define their gender as falling somewhere on a continuum between male and female, or they may define it as wholly different from these terms." Scholars have used leisure contexts to situate and expose the lived experiences of transgender and genderqueer individuals across a range of lived experiences (Browne & Bakshi, 2011;Jones, 2010;Lewis & Johnson, 2011;Travers, 2006). What all of these gender categories demonstrate is that there is much greater diversity in bodies and behaviors than binary heteronormative gender classifications allow.…”

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Heteronormativity in Leisure Research: Emancipation as Social Justice

Robinett

2014

Leisure Sciences

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Leisure research has the capacity to contribute to social justice when it provides emancipatory spaces for the interrogation of pervasive heteronormative ideologies. Heteronormative ideologies permeate social practices much like infections pollute a body. Research is not immune to heteronormativity, given that assumed links among sex, gender, and sexual orientation can pervert empirical inquiry. In this essay I suggest that by interrogating categories and relational positions as practices of power, leisure scholars may better examine to what level heteronormative ideologies are corrupting socially just research. By exposing how social practices regulate bodies relationally, emancipatory space is created for describing, interrogating, and challenging how heteronormative regulatory practices simultaneously privilege and oppress. I conclude this essay by suggesting that emancipatory research can create opportunities for social justice when researchers and participants are transparent in recognizing and respecting the uniqueness of their own positions and those of others.

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“…As Cresswell () argues, physical movement reflects the raw materials for the production of mobilities, and we can thus mark out, locate, map and track the changing organization of LGBT people in and beyond the cities. Some scholars have used newly available census data in the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia, as well as other quantitative and qualitative data, to plot shifting locations of businesses, services, leisure spaces and family spaces (Birrell and Rapson, ; Cooke, ; Duncan and Smith, ; Cooke and Rapino, ; Visser ; Gorman‐Murray et al ., ; Browne and Bakshi, ; Gorman‐Murray and Brennan‐Horley, ). In tracing movements over urban and regional spaces, this research finds new ‘queer’ neighbourhoods in Sydney and Melbourne (in the inner suburbs and periurban areas) and in Toronto in newly visible post‐gay, gay‐friendly and gay/straight landscapes (Visser, ; Gorman‐Murray and Waitt, ; Nash, ).…”

Section: Lgbt Mobilities In Urban Space: a Reframingmentioning

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LGBT Neighbourhoods and ‘New Mobilities’: Towards Understanding Transformations in Sexual and Gendered Urban Landscapes

Nash

Gorman‐Murray

2014

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article we apply insights from ‘new mobilities’ approaches to understand the shifting sexual and gendered landscapes of major cities in the global North. The empirical context is the purported ‘demise’ of traditional gay villages in Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia, and the emergence of ‘LGBT neighbourhoods’ elsewhere in the inner city. We reinterpret the historical geography of twentieth century LGBT lives and the associated ‘rise and fall’ of gay enclaves through the lens of the ‘politics of mobility’. In this reading, it is apparent that multifaceted movements — migration, physical and social mobility, and motility — underpin the formation of gay enclaves and recent transformations in sexual and gendered landscapes. After the second world war, LGBT communities in the global North were embedded in specific historical geographies of mobility and we trace these in the Canadian and Australian contexts. The ‘great gay migration’ from the 1960s to the 1980s has been joined by new LGBT constellations of mobility in the 2000s, and these have imprinted upon the sexual and gendered landscapes of Toronto and Sydney.

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We are here to party? Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans leisurescapes beyond commercial gay scenes

Cited by 75 publications

References 40 publications

‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

‘Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being PassÉ': How Assimilation Affects the Spatial Expressions of Sexuality in the United States

Heteronormativity in Leisure Research: Emancipation as Social Justice

LGBT Neighbourhoods and ‘New Mobilities’: Towards Understanding Transformations in Sexual and Gendered Urban Landscapes

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