Queer Geography

Creolizing Marcuse bridges the gap between traditional interpretations of Herbert Marcuse and Caribbean/Africana theory. It challenges the rigid boundaries often found in Marcusean scholarship, especially those shaped by ideas of purity and scarcity, both historically and in current debates. Rather than simplifying Marcuse’s theory, this book embraces its complexity to offer new insights into contemporary discussions on freedom, reciprocity, liberation, oppression, repression, and object relations theory. Creolizing Marcuse moves beyond producing static theoretical frameworks, instead urging decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, and queer scholars to actively incorporate Marcuse’s ideas into evolving, practical approaches to difference and social justice. The book calls for theorists, activists, and scholar-activists alike to engage in ongoing, dynamic practices that resist standing still.

Esse trabalho possui o intuito sintetizar uma análise acerca do uso e importância dos WebMappings, com o intuito de apresentar questões que o conceituam como uma ferramenta de suma importância junto a área cartográfica. Assim sendo, objetiva-se em realizar uma discussão detalhada acerca das funcionalidades dos WebMappings. Além disso, toda a análise estará contextualizada junto a área dos desastres naturais, com foco às inundações urbanas. Metodologicamente, realizou-se, de forma resumida, o detalhamento teórico e histórico sobre os WebMappings, a apresentação dos seus pontos positivos e a análise das suas principais aplicações. Entre os resultados obtidos, salienta-se a ampla análise teórica realizada, com a associação das práticas e vantagens referente a sua aplicabilidade. Destarte, concluiu-se que a dinâmica de realizar a exposição de dados geográficos junto a internet mostrou-se como uma rotina que perpassa muita simplicidade na análise de uma informação geográfica.

Crisis rhetoric and practice is all around us, whether pertaining to the current migration flows or to the global financial meltdown. This Discover Society issue will address the topic of ‘Relationships and Families across Crises’ by focussing on the ways in which families and relationships are created, sustained, challenged, and disrupted against the backdrop of social and political crises. It thereby shifts away from approaches that consider relationships (however conceived) as being ‘in crisis’ and concentrates instead on crisis as a backdrop for relationships. In other words, it collects contributions to the question of how changing material and ideological conditions inaugurated by the different crises impact on families and relationships in Europe and how families and intimate relationships have responded to crises.

While queer people exist everywhere, including within the confines of militarism, rurality, religiosity, and Southernness, their geographies remain underexplored. Thus, this paper examines the state of queer identity and belonging in rural and suburban spaces in the context of a hegemonic military culture in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. More broadly, it sheds light on nontraditional aspects of queer geographies by identifying modes of queer life that exist despite the dearth of factors that are typically associated with queer culture. In so doing, this paper also names larger socio-political forces that dampen the possibilities of certain queer modes of existence as well as the potentials of certain queer futures. Lastly, the meager documentation of queer phenomena in the Fort Bragg region has meant, at least for me, a seemingly infinite number of avenues to pursue that almost always led to yet more questions. Within this context, the experiences relayed to me through 28 s...

How can the 'dark side' of urban policy and planning be transformed into a 'light side?' How can displaceability and exclusion of an urban minority be reversed? How can marginalized groups enter the mainstream and achieve recognition, security and a stake in urban resources? The critical literature on the 'dark side' of planning rarely deals with the transformation from oppression to justice for excluded groups. The story of queer (LGBTQ+) space in Beersheba, Israel, which illustrates such a process, is analyzed here through the struggle to organize a gay parade and be allocated municipal assets for community use. The paper traces the transformation of the relationships between the community, the mayor and the City Council. The analysis shows how urban citizenship became a site of struggle constructed "from below," coupled with the ability to mobilize support from other cities and political pragmatism. In order to locate this struggle in a broader context, the LGBTQ+ struggle is compared to that of another minority, Beersheba's Bedouin-Arab community. The latter's plight shows that while the LGBTQ+ commrecognition and moving towards the 'light side,' the Arab community was experiencing the 'dark side,' with increasing urban oppression and displacement. The study thus shows how a liberal, gay struggle may also be used to "pinkwash" ongoing displacement of other communities in the urban periphery.

The question of refugee rights and immigrant entry to the UK presently has come under attack with the rise of nationalist sentiment and the exit of the UK from the European Union. The figure of the Muslim migrant has been normatively constructed to represent a limit to UK's multiculturalism (and, arguably globally). Such anti-Mus-lim sentiment operates via displacing racialized bodies from UK public culture. This article situates the ways in which racialized queer Muslim subjects attempt to maneuver structural racism and heteronormativity in the UK. The article argues that queer Muslim immigrants perceive queer spaces in Central London as white spaces. Secondly , we will analyze how the racialized queer Muslim subject creates ethnoracial specific spaces that are located outside central London. We argue that queer migration needs to be understood as an embodied experience by paying attention to how racialized queer Muslim migrants moves through multiple spaces in the city. The article develops a mixed method approach through an analysis of Ian Iqbal Rashid's film A Touch of Pink (2004) alongside Raisa Kabir's recent exhibition In/Visible Space: Reflections on the Realm of Dimensional Affect, Space and the Queer Racialised Self (Rich Mix, April, 2013) and the narrative of a gay identified working class Muslim immigrant male from East London. We argue that queer Muslim migrants reside on the margins of British symbolic culture through a non-belonging to one's religious identity. Such non-belonging is a spatialized experience. An analysis of the film, exhibition and our ethnography reveals the ways in which sexuality is constructed and conferred through racialization and creates precariously situated queer Muslim migrant subjects within present day UK.

Neoliberal discourses associate resilience with active stances and independence. Conceptualizing the relationship between vulnerability and resilience, this paper discusses lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women's experiences of LGBTphobia in Israeli rural space. Addressing the 67th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) challenge to describe intersectional issues, this paper reveals alternative negotiations of LBT women's vulnerabilities. Using a theory of vulnerability, we claim that LBT women express resilience even in situations of marginalization and vulnerability. The paper shows how resilience, embedded within vulnerability, is constructed through the management of LGBTphobia via three strategies: construction of alternative spaces, advocacy, and direct resistance to acts of violence.

This contribution is rooted in an ethnographic exploration conducted in Rome aimed at investigating the urban geographies of street sex workers. Capturing the voices of those entangled in the phenomenon, including trans sex workers and their «neighbors», two case studies will exemplify the complex interactions between sex workers, residents, and urban spaces. In fact, while the city government strives to distance and confine the presences perceived as disturbing, degrado areas constitute a space of possibility for some non-normative subjectivities or practices. This potential extends beyond mere survival, encompassing the formation of diverse relationships. Drawing on literature from feminist and critical geography, urban studies, and political ecology, this contribution explores the relational ecologies of degrado, hoping that their recognition could redefine how policymakers understand and govern places that stimulate us to innovate the categories by which we recognize communal living.

Η παρούσα εργασία -παρά τον ευρύ της τίτλο- επικεντρώνεται στην μελέτη της πόλης και της σεξουαλικότητας την περίοδο της Μεταπολίτευσης. Σημεία αναφοράς είναι οι λογοτεχνικές αναπαραστάσεις της πόλης στο λογοτεχνικό λεύκωμα Ομόνοια 1980 (1980) του Γ. Ιωάννου, την ποιητική συλλογή Η Μεταφυσική της μιας νύχτας (1982) και τη συλλογή αφηγημάτων Αλησμόνητα σινεμά (1989) του Α. Αγγελάκη. Η συγγένεια  των συγκεκριμένων λογοτεχνικών έργων έγκειται καταρχάς στο περιεχόμενο, τα οποία πραγματεύονται το ομοερωτικό βίωμα εντός της πόλης και των χωρικών της σημείων· δεύτερον στην ειδολογική υβριδικότητά τους, αφού όλα χρησιμοποιούν λόγο και εικόνα, όχι απλώς ως πλαισίωση, αλλά ισάξια για το τελικό αποτέλεσμα· και τρίτον αναδεικνύονται παρόμοια θεματικά μοτίβα, τα οποία εξετάζουμε για να αναδείξουμε τη διαφορά με την οποία τα αναπλάθει ο κάθε συγγραφέας ξεχωριστά. Οι παραπάνω τακτικές, λογοτεχνικά πραγματωμένες, υποστηρίζεται ότι αποτυπώνουν την ατομική ομολογία του κάθε συγγραφέα προς το κοινό, ενώ εκ παραλλήλου εντάσσουν τα γράφοντα υποκείμενα σε έναν συλλογικό βίο, ο οποίος εκείνη την εποχή αναδύεται – έπειτα από την αποσιώπηση δεκαετιών και διεκδικεί ορατότητα.

Research shows that gay couples living in gay neighborhoods across America stay closer to home than their straight neighbors. Many gays and lesbians move to LGBT neighborhoods in order to be near other gays, lesbians, and LGBT-oriented businesses and organizations and presumably, their straight neighbors are not as closely tied to the social fabric of the neighborhood. To study the effect of social contexts on activity patterns, a review of data from the nationally representative 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) was conducted. For gay men, it was found that living in a gay or lesbian neighborhood leads to non-work trips that are significantly shorter in distance. On average, gay men work much closer to home when they live in a gay or lesbian neighborhood than when they do not. This research suggests that, when it comes to travel decisions, being connected to one's neighborhood matters and that the social fabric of a neighborhood, in conjunction with the built environ...

What is left of subsumption Petrus Liu's book comes as a welcoming intervention in the field and at least makes two significant advancements. First, this book makes material concerns central to the theorizing and researching of Book Review Forum Dialogues in Human Geography 1-4

In this article, we explore how people in conflict-affected societies use language to navigate the affective constraints that political conflicts impose. Specifically, we consider the role of multilingualism in enabling sexual and romantic intimacy between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in Israel/Palestine. Our data are drawn from a close examination of the speech of Fadi Daeem, one of the protagonists in the 2015 documentary Oriented. Building on studies of (in)securitization and everyday bordering, we show how the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Palestine serves to instantiate a regime of affective checkpoints, a space in which sexual and romantic relations between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are discursively blocked. We describe how Fadi and his friends use strategic instances of code-switching between Arabic, Hebrew, and English to navigate this ideologically fraught terrain. Our primary goal is to demonstrate how multilingualism can be employed as a resource for managing affect and desire in a conflict-ridden context like Israel/Palestine. In doing so, we further highlight how the intimate domain of romantic desire is inevitably situated within a broader matrix of power and constraint.

KEYWORDS: (in)securitization; checkpoints; queer; desire; code-switching; Israel/Palestine

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.

La primera ola de personas LGBTIQ+ que se politizó y visibilizó ya ha envejecido. Sin embargo, pese a los logros en materia de derechos, de visibilidad y de política, las vejeces LGBTIQ+ han quedado relegadas al margen de los discursos activistas, militantes y las representaciones socioculturales mediatizadas de este sector poblacional. Por ello, en este artículo trazo las rutas para dilucidar las estrategias que emplean 3 hombres homosexuales para hacer frente a la violencia y la discriminación por motivos de su edad y de su orientación sexual. Parto de la premisa que la reclusión de las vejeces en el hogar, ha convertido a la casa en un pequeño territorio para los gerontes homosexuales, desde donde confrontan las violencias heteropatriarcales y edadistas.

V současnosti se čím dál tím otevřeněji mluví o existenci gay, lesbické a transgender komunity (LGBT) a mnoho lidí se nebojí svou orientaci veřejně přiznat. Vzhledem k tomu, že lékařská péče o tuto část populace se v některých faktorech odlišuje, přinášíme v tomto článku přehled těch nejvýznamnějších odlišností. Informace se snažíme podat tak, aby byly přínosné pro běžnou praxi a aby pomohly lékařům při preventivní a léčebné péči o tyto pacienty.

Feedforward Interview (FFI) is an organizational intervention designed as a replacement or an augmentation of various feedback interventions (Kluger & Nir, 2010). FFI consists of a systematic analysis of a story regarding peak work experience of top performance, aiming at improving performance and strengthening relationships between participants. The FFI reveals the crucial conditions that enabled past top performance. These conditions are used as guidelines for future plans to recreate and expand their presence, thus promoting a work environment that encourages people to perform at their best by expressing their strengths and providing them with the necessary conditions for top performance.
This work is the first systematic empirical investigation of the FFI. Results show that FFI increases positive affect, self-efficacy, and learning. These effects are moderated by attachment avoidance. Managers who participated in FFI training provided more detailed feedback to their subordinates and focused more on positive aspects of their performance, while not neglecting criticism.

Gavin Brown (University of Leicester, UK) is one of today's most eminent scholars of political geography and sexualities. In this intellectual-biographical interview, he describes his academic path, as well as discusses some of his major contributions to the fields of geographies of sexualities and gender and protest movements and activism. This interview by Gilly Hartal introduces some of his major conceptual and theoretical contributions in the fields of sexualities and gender, geopolitics, the spatiality of protest camps and, in particular, the spatial practice of solidarity. Knowledge, as feminist theory has taught us, is always grounded in personal-political contexts and subjectivities. This conversation with Gavin Brown offers an intimate perspective into Brown's academic experience, which interestingly also reflects the growth and materialization of the field of geographies of sexualities into a sub-discipline. The interview also addresses the current state of critical geographical work and calls for support of and solidarity with scholars and departments under threat.

This paper uses framing theory to challenge previous understandings of queer safe space, their construction, and fundamental logics. Safe space is usually apprehended as a protected and inclusive place, where one can express one's identity freely and comfortably. Focusing on the Jerusalem Open House, a community center for LGBT individuals in Jerusalem, I investigate the spatial politics of safe space. Introducing the contested space of Jerusalem, I analyze five framings of safe space, outlining diverse and oppositional components producing this negotiable construct. The argument is twofold: First, I aim to explicate five different frames for the creation of safe space. The frames are: fortification of the queer space, preserving participants' anonymity, creating an inclusive space, creating a space of separation for distinct identity groups, and controlling unpredictable influences on the participants in the space. Second, by unraveling the basic reasoning for each frame and its related affects I show how all five frames are anchored in liberal logics and reflect specific ways in which we comprehend how queer subjectivities produce/are produced through safe space and its discourse.

Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men's bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic practices, which are immanent to gay men's travel cultures, play into a pinkwashing geopolitics in this specific circumstance. Thus, this paper conceptualizes pinkwashing mechanisms operation through heritage tourist sites just as much as they are produced via the presentation of Tel Aviv as a modern space of acceptance of LGBT sexualities, albeit obviously in different ways. Moreover, tourists' notions of place and non-place construct how (urban) space is produced as meaningful while other (heritage) space is marginalized. Methodologically, I present a reflexive embodied ethnography, which relies on my researcher's reflexivity to produce an analysis through a story.

In this chapter, I focus on providing a perspective through which we may understand the current conditions and challenges of LGBT+ activism in Czechia and the other countries that are part of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). By zooming out from the current Czech context, I will show how are broader transnational contexts influenced by overlooked specific developments. Departing from clumsy discourses of ‘belatedness’, and ‘immaturity’ of the regional LGBT+ rights, I will also detour from representations of the situation as mere stagnation. Instead, by discussing the research on so-called ‘anti-gender movements’, I will represent the current situation as dynamic equilibrium, or an active stalemate caused by the simultaneous vibrancy of activists’ efforts and particularly vocal political opposition. Instead of focusing on their further description, I will attempt to understand these novel challenges as an opportunity to notice a vast set of relatively overlooked or underestimated issues. Building on previous work, I suggest that ontological insecurity may represent one such overlooked phenomenon or a type of resource, that is being aroused by populist politicians who exploit morality politics. Finally, I will focus on our NGO Queer Geography, in which we seek to employ strategies that may help buffer Czech society against efforts of moral entrepreneurs.

Attività didattica e incarichi ufficiali di docenza presso istituzioni accademiche Corso di Geografia (corso annuale) presso l'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore per Geografia (sede di Brescia e di Milano, Fac. Scienze della Formazione). Titolarità di contratti di ricerca presso istituzioni accademiche

Returning to the Radical Roots of Queer Liberation through Prison Abolition As a phenomenological inquiry, this project is first and foremost concerned with human experiences of incarceration, queerness, and the lifeworlds that grow up in the overlay. I extend Kendall Thomas' contention that antisodomy laws legitimize homophobic violence to say that even after their renunciation, antiqueer laws have a resonant effect and continue to legitimize antiqueer violence. Through the narrative of Jason Lydon, Black and Pink's founder, this dissertation seeks to understand the worldmaking project of Black and Pink. Black and Pink produces an interstitial politics, growing up through the cracks between the criminal justice movement, which fails to engage queers in their fight for carceral justice, and the mainstream LGBTQ movement, which neglects queer prisoners in their fight for queer liberation. Through letter correspondence and a newspaper publication, Black and Pink members inside and outside of prison connect with each other, forging survival relationships and survival community, to respond to threats to queer survival. In a society that assumes state punitive mechanisms as necessary, Black and Pink offers a different path toward survival. Through joining concepts of Dean Spade's mutual aid and adrienne maree brown's emergent strategy, and employing them as social movement theory, I demonstrate how the intimate bonds between Black and Pink members cultivate connective action. Black and Pink is a complex organization working to confront carceral v antiqueer violence on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Black and Pink produces a "fugitive" knowledge that serves as empirical evidence implicating the state as a major thread to queer survival. The stories authored by queer prisoners reveal that systems-based approaches for mitigating harm and violence not only fail to do so, but are exploited and produce altogether new antiqueer violence. When we name the violence of prisons as statesanctioned homophobia and transphobia, it becomes imperative for queer movements to recognize that it does not make sense to seek remedy from these institutions that are themselves foundries of queer violence. Ultimately, I understand Black and Pink as a project of survival which arrives at abolition through an embodied course.

This article charts the changing knowledges within Israeli feminist geography in the last few decades. It briefly reviews some of the topics that characterize Israeli scholarship, and in particular the ways in which the academic knowledge changed from the focus on women's geography, to feminist and gendered analysis of spaces, to a more recent focus on sexuality and gender. We argue that it is not that one knowledge replacing others, but rather all knowledges and approaches exist simultaneously within Israeli geography today.

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Article publié dans la revue EspaceTemps.net le 20/04/2015 http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/des-geographies-queers-au-dela-des-genres-etdes-sexualites/ Le terme de queer geography est employé depuis la fin des années 1990. Il a fleuri dans les recherches en géographie anglophone alors qu'il apparaît timidement dans la géographie francophone. Il est cependant porté par des chercheur-e-s 1 reconnu-e-s dans le champ des sciences humaines et sociales en France, comme Marie-Hélène Bourcier ou Beatriz Preciado. Lors de la parution de Mapping Desire, pierre angulaire du champ de la géographie des sexualités, les expressions queer et queer space étaient déjà évoquées et rapidement définies (Bell et Valentine 1995). Description auteur.e : Cha Prieur est Attaché Temporaire à l'Éducation et à la Recherche (ATER) en géographie à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (UMR Espaces, Nature et Culture). Sa thèse porte sur les lieux, milieux et sexualités queers. Iel opère une comparaison entre Paris et Montréal. Plus généralement, ses centres d'intérêt sont les géographies des genres et des sexualités ouvertes aux autres disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. Iel apporte également un grand intérêt aux questions méthodologiques, notamment sur la situation du chercheur par rapport à sa thématique d'étude et son terrain. Résumé : le but de cet article est de voir comment les géographies queers s'intègrent dans l'histoire de la géographie et ce qu'elles apportent de nouveau à la discipline dans les pays francophones. Il permet de voir ses origines (postmodernité et féminismes) et ses précédents (géographie des sexualités). On explique ensuite l'originalité de ce nouveau champ de la géographie, qui permet d'aller au-delà des études des genres et des sexualités en s'ouvrant à l'intersectionnalité (dimensions politiques, ethniques, sociales et culturelles).

This report explores a number of factors which might contribute to making public space safer and more inclusive for all, not least LGBTQ+ people. It examines issues including the rise of the gayborhood, the location of hate crimes and incidents, the impact of planning, licensing and design regimes on inclusivity and safety in public spaces and the importance of queer heritage. The report concludes with a number of detailed recommendations about how developments in planning procedures and changing approaches to design should contribute to desistance of hate crimes and incidents and produce public space which is more truly public

In the postwar decades, Miami Beach became a majority Jewish city partially due to the entrepreneurship first of Jewish hotel owners and then of Jewish builders. As a popular, middle-class vacation resort, it blended elements of big city sophistication with ethnic Jewish tastes. Its southern section housed an exceptional, visible community of elderly, Yiddish-speaking Jews who brought their public culture to its beaches and sidewalks. American Jewish photographers pictured this world as an American shtetl even as Jewish American television producers imagined Miami as a multicultural and multiracial site of vice, eroticism, and cool melodrama.

Around the globe, trans and gender diverse people have a wide range of access to health care, psychological as well as physical, that is unique to their home country's context. Some of the contributing factors are nations' health care systems, laws and policies surrounding discrimination, adequate resources, and under-trained health care professionals. Unfortunately, inability or difficulty in accessing transition related health care and support leads to negative impacts on mental health. In this article, the authors describe the unique contexts related to transgender health care in Canada, Japan, South Africa, and the United States. We focus specifically on the financial cost of transition for trans and gender diverse people, including gender affirming surgeries as well as mental and health care more broadly. We discuss the role of mental health professionals as advocates for gender affirming care and the fundamental human right to health care. We include discussions of therapy, assessment, medical care such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and surgeries, and additional invisible costs. We highlight the importance for all mental health professionals to be aware of the impacts to trans and gender diverse people's mental health when their fundamental health care needs are not met. Furthermore, we provide recommendations for how mental health professionals can advocate for their clients' access to transition related care.

Building on a review of the literature combined with ethnographic research, this chapter concentrates first on women’s participation in formal political institutions to show how they are underrepresented in decision-making and political leadership positions throughout the Middle East. It also shows how this general statement needs to be nuanced, as it obscures substantial differences both within and among different states. The second section focuses on the variable and often ambivalent impact of gender quotas that were introduced in the 2000’s. The third section concentrates on the challenges to women’s participation in formal political institutions, as identified by scholars. The fourth and last section moves the focus from formal to informal spaces of politics. It shows that women’s underrepresentation in formal politics does not mean that they do not participate, but rather that they participate in alternative spaces.

I would first like to thank all my research partners, friends, mentors, and teachers in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador. Your careful, critical insights served as a constant intellectual guiding light. It has truly been an honor to actively witness and partake in this arduous game we call life with other Black LGBT and queer youth. I would also like to thank my advisors, Drs. Bjørn Sletto and Caroline Faria, who have worked tirelessly to teach me, challenge me, and guide me to the finish line, toward future successes. Your patience with me throughout this process has been astounding, and your teaching and mentorship will continue to inspire me in my own career. At The University of Texas at Austin, I would like to sincerely thank the Lozano-Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), the Brazil Center, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS), and the School of Architecture (UTSoA) for their financial and institutional support during my tenure at the University. Also worthy of heartfelt acknowledgements are Dr. João Vargas and Carla Silva-Muhammad, who together made possible my unforgettable experience as Teaching Assistant for the African Diaspora in the Americas summer program while in Rio, in partnership with the illustrious staff of Criolaone of Brazil's largest and oldest Black women's organizations. My experiences as both a student-participant and TA in the course during summers 2015 and 2017, respectively, were transformative and served as a key ponto de partida for this research project. Lastly, I would like to thank my family as well as my partner, Eric, for putting up with my vi workaholic tendencies and long stints abroad all these years. Thank you, Eric, for (lovingly) pushing me toward the finish line.

Queer Urbanism deserves a place in any sort of conversation about our built world, examining how we traverse, alter and think about our relationship with cities. Rebellious movements in the past such as Dadaism, Situationism and Fluxus gave free reign to artistic practicesin our cities by merely occupying space on the sidewalks. The AIDS epidemic in the 1980s brought the LGBTQ+ community into the spotlight, at that point, ACT UP! and Queer Nation implemented performative protest, taking back the streets for a marginalized community. The fine/performing arts have upheld this practice of subverting public space. But what do these actions signify? Beyond the "city as a stage", we see them for what they are: seismic changes in the urban fabric. The planning of cities and streets takes place within the safe confines of an office; however, this paper argues that urban design should not be approached without taking the uses of the spaces into consideration. Combining the disruptive methods of Queer Theory, Queer Urbanism is much more than a protest. It is a recognition beyond "We're Here! We're Queer!": "We're here! Now this is queer!" In its contradictory nature, Queer Urbanism fights back the heteronormative patriarchal power system that shapes our cities. But will it cannabalize itself? A popular talking point for queer space is the "safe space", yet if we hold a critical queer lens to this, does queer fight for safety? Is it not born from a desire to design, redesign and reconstruct the idea of what most people consider safe? This paper tackles various works of artistic practices, both historical and contemporary, with a special eye to how they changed a given space by occupying it, if even only for a brief moment. As queer bodies move through a space, are we defining that space? Or are we designing the space?

Chairetis, Spyros (2020) «Μόνο εδώ βρίσκω αυτό που θέλω’: διασταυρώσεις φύλου, ομοσεξουαλικότητας και ηλικίας στα αθηναϊκά τσοντοσινεμά» [‘Mono edo vrisko afto pou thelo’: diastauroseis fylou, omosexoualikotitas kai ilikias sta athinaika tsontosinema] [‘Only here I can get what I want’: intersections of gender, homosexuality, and age in the Athenian porn theatres], in Dimitra Vassiliadou, Glafki Gotsi (eds.), Ιστορίες για τη σεξουαλικότητα [Istories gia ti sexoualikotita] [Histories on sexuality], Athens, Themelio Publications, pp. 210-231 [in Greek].

A permanente reflexao metodologica durante todo o processo da pesquisa, preocupando-se em questionar se a metodologia escolhida e capaz de apreender o objeto estudado e de extrema importância. No entanto, a Geografia, de uma maneira geral, infelizmente, e marcada pela escassez de reflexao sobre os procedimentos por meio dos quais produzem suas informacoes. Por isso, nao com a intencao de preencher essa lacuna ou esgotar o tema, mas sim em dar subsidios relacionados a pesquisa, sobretudo qualitativa, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar, resumidamente, algumas das principais problematicas, conceitos e autores que versam a respeito da pesquisa qualitativa na Geografia. Para tanto, partimos da discussao a respeito da carencia do debate metodologico e o papel da teoria e do sujeito na pesquisa geografica, para, em seguida, levando em consideracao que a escolha da metodologia a ser empregada na pesquisa e determinada pelo objeto de estudo, apresentamos resumidamente as metodo...

This article aims to review and reflect on the diverse life patterns and social needs of aging gay men in Israeli culture from an interpretive socio-historical perspective. Using the life course perspective as a leading theoretical framework, a few significant implications of the late emancipation of the Israeli LGBT community on contemporary gay male aging are raised. Appropriately, the current knowledge about gay aging in Israel is first reviewed from an activist autoethnographic viewpoint, including in relation to evidence unfolding from two documentaries about aging gay men, and the author's gay activist life course. Community group activism that concurrently drove this autoethnographic inquiry brought the author together with recurring and ongoing themes in the present lives of older gay men. These themes reflect on the tension between concealment and disclosure of sexual identity in older age, the rift between conflicting social gay identities, and the need for community-based social support. This study is discussed as a basis for future research and community practice.

Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the emerging carceral landscape to provide a new critical epistemology for carceral geographies. In so doing, a meta-institutional agenda for critical carceral geography is derived, and possible ways to short-circuit carceral systems are revealed.

בניית חיים משותפים בישראל היא משימה המתבצעת במרחב לא-נודע ובתנאים מאתגרים במיוחד. הימשכות הסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטיני, מאבקי הדת והמדינה, ריבוי השסעים הפנים-ישראליים, אי-השוויון המבני, השיטה הפוליטית ומגבלותיה, ומעל לכול המרחב הפיזי המצומצם שבתוכו אנו חיים ומתנהלים – הופכים את המשימה לאתגר יוצא דופן. מסמך זה מציג מודל לניתוח ואפיון מרחבי מפגש בערים מעורבות. המודל מאפשר לזהות את היתרונות והחסרונות של מרחב מפגש נתון, ובהתאם לכך להציע התערבויות פיזיות, קהילתיות וניהוליות אשר ישפרו את תפקודו ויהפכו אותו למרחב בטוח ומכיל – מרחב משותף. המסמך נכתב בשיתוף קרן קונרד אדנאואר בישראל, והוא מיועד למקבלי החלטות ברמה המקומית, למנהלי ארגונים הפועלים במרחבים מעורבים, לאדריכלים ומתכנני ערים ולפעילים קהילתיים ופעילי חברה אזרחית. המסמך בנוי משלושה חלקים: החלק הראשון מציג את הרקע התאורטי לחקר מרחבי המפגש בערים מעורבות, החלק השני מציע מודל של ניתוח ופעולה לפיתוח מרחבים משותפים, והחלק השלישי מדגים
את השימוש במודל בשני מקרי בוחן בירושלים - שדרות אלרוב ממילא וגן הפעמון.

Drawing on the life stories of nine LGBTTTIQ-identified people who have lived in Acapulco (Guerrero, Mexico), this article provides a queer mapping of this city, peripherally situated in the Global South yet with longstanding entangled transnational connections. The frame for this analysis is the concept of "territorial inequality," a term coined by urbanism scholar Óscar Torres Arroyo, whose seminal work examined the emergence of this southern Mexican city as an urban space formed through a process of socioeconomic segregation driven by tourism. This article also responds to the call of queer urban scholars to look beyond the metropole for spaces of the political theorized on their own terms. In Acapulco, class, race, and nationality intersect with sexuality in ways that have made it a destination for some queers while also dangerous and unpredictable for others, a segregated sociopolitical space where norms of masculinity have collided with multiversal expressions of sexuality imbued with patterns of exploitation. A key destination during the 20th-century rise of international tourism and a place now securitized as "violent," this urban space is also the site of evolving LGBTTTIQ movements, communities, and shifting patterns of queer life and queer tourism. This article reconsiders proposals made by queer theorists such as Lionel Cantú and Jasbir Puar regarding the complicated role of tourism in shaping sexualities, urbanization patterns, and state practices structured through colonial, neoliberal, and liberational processes, to theorize queer dimensions of the development of this city.

This paper discusses about the relation between discontinuous paradoxical territory, LGBT movement, prostitution and pimping in Southern Brazil. Such proposition relates to the content analysis of 22 interviews with travestis which acted in sexual services and with 7 more interviews with people acting in NGOs concerned with the travestis group. We verified that this knowledge flow is made through the participation of various social actors and it is constituted with the relations established between travestis, NGOs and owners of ‘boarding houses for travestis’, from paradoxes and complementarities between legal and illegal activities. The multiple scale of the phenomenon highlights how these relations have a mobile and indeterminate position, thus surpassing the notion that conceives categories as something fixed and it shows how complex the relations among subjects and space are.Este artigo discute a relação entre território descontínuo paradoxal, movimento LGBT, prostituição e cafe...

Bali as a global destination has been recognized by various of people including the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community. Despite of being known for its cultural tourism, the pink tourism phenomenon exists and lives together along with the locals of Seminyak village. This research aims to discover the existence of pink tourism at Mixwell Bar in Seminyak as well as the perception from the locals and the government toward the happening phenomenon. This qualitative-descriptive research used snowball sampling to determine the population. The result shows that the pink tourism phenomenon exists due to the motivation from LGBT community to aim freedom of travelling without any discriminations toward them. Seminyak as a developing tourist area, has a gay bar that is considered as a safe place for the LGBT community, and is called Mixwell Bar. This motivates the LGBT community to visit Seminyak in order to get the freedom they need. The government confirmed that pink tourism is not in line with the cultural tourism in Bali. However, the locals see the LGBT tourists as economic stimulus through tourism industry, but do not acknowledge them to have a legal behavior. The researchers hope that the information provided could be a consideration for Bali tourism policy in the future.

This article accentuates higher education LGBTQ+ (HE-LGBTQ+) students’ lived experiences of off-campus housing in the Deonar Campus District of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. It is observed that key urban stakeholders such as brokers, landowners, neighborhood resident families, and hostel wardens informed by cis-heteronormative moralities work in tandem in shaping the student housing market. The article argues, first, that these powerful urban stakeholders collectively contribute to two mutually feeding phenomena—”studentphobia” and “cis-heteronormative familification”—which in turn effectuate a homonegative labyrinth of representational distortions of the HE-LGBTQ+ student-image. Secondly, when compounded with an increasingly unaffordable urban housing market in the finance capital of India, it results in relatively acute experiences of “spatial dysphoria” for HE-LGBTQ+ students that cannot be comprehended within the neat binary of socio-spatial un/belonging. Met...

Cook and EvansÕ anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time. Although its temporal focus requires further conceptual substantiation, the work is generally effective in analysing queerÕs complex socio-spatial dimensions. This is particularly done in the domains of politics, mobility, migration, tourism, democracy, religion, language, sex, health, prejudice and justice that have been structurally intersecting urban queer culture over the last seven decades or so. Across genders and academic stages of career, the contributors approach these matters of urban queer culture from anthropological, historical, gender, philosophical, sociological, linguistic and legal epistemologies.

As more cities and local governments resort to gender sensitive approaches to urban planning, it is insightful to address gender and the environment as crosscutting issues (Levy, 1992). Indeed, the greening of cities is a widespread response to climate change, as mitigation and adaptation to its microclimatic effects in cities. This creates opportunities to reassess the gender inclusiveness of urban space, as projects of greening school yards show (Maruéjouls, 2014). Yet if the conversation on gender inclusive public space is not well rooted in the local government, policies to protect the biodiversity might impede the appropriation of the city by women and LGBTI people. Our paper is based on the empirical work conducted as part of a PhD thesis on that matter, in three French cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. We question how gendermainstreaming translates into tools and solutions for urban green spaces, as well as re-vegetated public places. The paper will show how civil servants working on the conception and maintenance of such green spaces understand and familiarize themselves with the gender sensitive perspectives and the challenges they face doing so. We will describe what hinders the production of more gender inclusive public green spaces. We will also discuss how civil servants and elected officials regard at the right to the city for women and LGBTI people as a security issue, and its implications on the framing of the public problem and the solutions to it.

International audienceAs more cities and local governments resort to gender sensitive approaches to urban planning, it is insightful to address gender and the environment as crosscutting issues (Levy, 1992). Indeed, the greening of cities is a widespread response to climate change, as mitigation and adaptation to its microclimatic effects in cities. This creates opportunities to reassess the gender inclusiveness of urban space, as projects of greening school yards show (Maruéjouls, 2014). Yet if the conversation on gender inclusive public space is not well rooted in the local government, policies to protect the biodiversity might impede the appropriation of the city by women and LGBTI people. Our paper is based on the empirical work conducted as part of a PhD thesis on that matter, in three French cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. We question how gendermainstreaming translates into tools and solutions for urban green spaces, as well as re-vegetated public places. The paper wi...