Economic, Cultural and Social Factors Influencing the Development of Gay Businesses and Places: Evidence from the European Union / Ekonomické, Kulturní A Sociální Faktory V Pozadí Rozvoje Gay Podniků A Míst: Situace V Evropské Unii

Gabiam, Koessan; Pitoňák, Michal

doi:10.2478/mgr-2014-0014

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“…gayborhoods] staly prubířským kamenem studií sexualit a prostoru, které vztahují sexualitu a identity k určité a viditelné zóně města." (Brown 2014: 457) Navzdory faktu, že se problematice městské koncentrace "gay-podniků a aktivit" mimo anglosaský kontext věnovalo jen minimum prací, některé hovoří o jejich pozvolném ústupu, který může být projevem probíhající emancipace ne-heterosexuálních lidí ve společnosti (Gabiam a Pitoňák 2014), stále intenzivnějšího vlivu internetu a sociálních sítí (Ruting 2008), které tyto tradiční prostory nahrazují, či jiných faktorů, které doposud nebyly konzistentně zmapovány (Brown 2014).…”

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„Queer podniky“ v Brně

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2019

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Brno, Czech Republic is amongst the most liberal of cities and yet, but few know that in Brno as early as during the interwar period there were unique spaces dedicated to sexual diversity, various gay and lesbian initiatives came into existence, and that the first post-war semi-official / semilegal Czech gay business was opened here. Also, Brno hosted the first big Czech “queer march”, and the most significant Czech queer film festival was born there. This article aims to examine whether and, if so how, this diversity is mirrored in Brno’s “queer venues”, which we have contextualized within the broader perspective of geographies of sexualities, using semi-structured interviews. Our goal was to understand the locally-specific forms of socio-spatial organization and how they influence local non-heterosexual people, including their effects on sexual orientation and/or sexual identities in everyday negotiations. Our main findings include the identification of the characteristic features of Brno “queer enterprises”, the elucidation of their relative spatial concentration, and the physical and visual unobtrusiveness associated with the degree of use of “queer symbolism”. Our findings clarify the specific homonormative, and to a certain extent heteronormative, settings of local queer venues, which in the context of gay commodification significantly influence not only the form and degree of acceptance of non-heterosexual people in Brno, but also their mutual relationships, the possibilities of self-realization and new forms of exclusion. Even though we cannot find a “gay neighbourhood” in Brno, we can speak of a “queer-friendly city”.

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Feminist Interventions: Central and Eastern Europe

Timár¹

2019

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

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Feminist perspectives were introduced into urban and regional studies in Central and Eastern Europe only after the fall of state socialism and seem to be taking a long time to become widespread in the region. Mapping gendered space was a typical means of introduction in a number of countries. Analyses of new social roles that evolved, as well as spatial processes such as suburbanization that emerged and gathered momentum in the postsocialist era, were other common types of “early” research with a gender perspective. Researchers, mainly of a younger generation, have been addressing issues like urban spaces and representations of the body, homosexuality, heteronormativity, or fear since the 2000s. The number of studies presenting the gendered nature of space and society as a matter‐of‐course phenomenon is on the rise.

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