Queers in Space: Communities / Public Places / Sites of Resistance

Cultural Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Urban Planning. Exploring the interactions between queer identity, experience, and activism and a range of communal and public spaces, QUEERS IN SPACE: COMMUNITIES, PUBLIC PLACES, SITES OF RESISTANCE opens up a new direction in gay and lesbian studies. From gay space in Mexico City to the now legendary baths of New York and San Francisco, QUEERS IN SPACE travels to bars, parks, beaches, neighborhoods, and cities to follow the expansion and transformation of queer communities beyond the gay ghetto. By focusing on the geography of queer social relationships QUEERS IN SPACE raises critical and timely questions about the role of social space in shaping identities, the meaning of communal space for marginalized peoples, and the significance of public spaces for social visibility. Edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter. Lost In Space: Queer Theory And Community Activism At The Fin-de-millénaire / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter -- Queer Space / Jean-ulrick Désert -- Marginality And The Landscapes Of Erotic Alien(n)ations / Gordon Brent Ingram -- Part 1. Experience, Place, Maps : Narratives Of Place: Subjective And Collective / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter -- Restriction And Reclamation: Lesbian Bars And Beaches Of The 1950s / Joan Nestle -- The Interim Photographs / Bill Jacobson -- People And Their Streets, Places / Sarah Schulman -- One-handed Geographies: An Archaeology Of Public Sex / David Bell -- Part 2. Queerscapes : Surveying Territories And Landscapes / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter -- Open Space As Strategic Queer Sites / Gordon Brent Ingram -- No More Shit: The Struggle For Democratic Gay Space In Toronto / John Grube --^ From Landmarks To Spaces: Mapping The Territory Of A Bisexual Genealogy / Clare Hemmings -- Domestic Dykes: The Politics Of In-difference / Elsie Jay -- Part 3. Regional Dynamics And Community Formation : Queer Zones And Enclaves: Political Economies Of Community Formation / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter -- San Francisco: Revisiting The City Of Desire / Pat Califia -- Gay Male Places Of Mexico City / Alvaro Sanchez-crispin And Alvaro Lopez-lopez -- Queer And Gendered Housing: A Tale Of Two Neighbourhoods In Vancouver / Anne-marie Bouthillette -- The Queer Nation Acts Up: Health Care, Politics, And The Sexual Diversity In The County Of Angels, 1990-92 / Ty Geltmaker -- Constructing Manchester's New Urban Village: Gay Spaces In The Entrepreneurial City / Stephen Quilley -- Part 4. Queer Sites : Placemaking And The Dialectics Of Public And Private / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter --^ Invisible Women In Invisible Places: The Production Of Social Space In Lesbian Bars / Maxine Wolfe -- Lesbian Spaces In Los Angeles, 1970-1990 / Yolanda Retter -- Leather Nights In The Woods: Locating Male Homosexuality And Sadomasochism In A Dutch Highway Rest Area / Maurice Van Lieshout -- Queer Spaces In New York City: Places Of Struggle, Places Of Strength / Betti-sue Hertz, Ed Eisenberg, And Lisa Maya Knauer Of The Repohistory Collective -- Part 5. Queerscape Architectures : Making Room: Queerscape Architectures And The Spaces Of Activism / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter -- Having Something To Wear: The Landscape Of Identity On Christopher Street / James Polchin -- The Meaning At The Wall: Tracing The Gay Bathhouse / Ira Tattelman -- This Is About People Dying: The Tactics Of Early Act Up And Lesbian Avengers In New York City: An Interview With Maxine Wolfe / Laraine Sommella --^ Do You Love The Dyke In Your Face? / Carrie Moyer And Dyke Action Machine! -- Strategies For (re)constructing Queer Communities / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette And Yolanda Retter. Edited By Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-marie Bouthillette, And Yolanda Retter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 497-522). Queers In Space explores the full queer experience in its local, regional and global contexts to radically redefine and reinvent the queer landscape In a vital and wide-ranging collection of essays, Queers in Space explores the queer experience in its local, regional and global contexts. This book explores the interactions between queer identity, experience, and activism and a range of communal and public spaces