‘Reclaiming raunch’? Spatializing queer identities at Toronto women's bathhouse events

Nash, Catherine J.; Bain, Alison L.

doi:10.1080/14649360701251809

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“…Although slowly increasing, within the (re)writings of geographies of sexualities and queer geographies, lesbians/nonheterosexual women's everyday lives continue to be marked by an 'absence of presence' [15,16,54,55]. Approaches to lesbian/non-heterosexual women within geographies of sexualities can, in part be summarised by Quilley [56] who states '[b]y gay community I refer mainly to men' (p. 49).…”

Section: Gendering Geographies Of Sexualitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perceptions of place may also solidify borders between, and dichotomise, towns and cities attributing them (and lives associated with them) distinct characteristics. In investigating how perceptions and lives interact and (re)constitute each other it is possible to move between the divisions of urban/rural, town/city augmenting the complexities of lesbian geographies that can defy fixed forms of mapping [15,16,54,55,61,81]. Here, I will, tentatively, use (without presuming homogeneity) the terms 'towns' and 'cities' as participants have to examine how rural lesbian lives are interconnected with the mythical lesbian urban.…”

Section: Beyond the Urban/rural?: Understanding The Homosexual Urbanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In moving beyond the focus on commodification and gay territories as signifiers of 'mappable' identities, lesbian geographies may not centralise facilities and sexual opportunities as markers of existence [16,45], although recent research has foregrounded female appropriation of bathhouses [55,61,62]. The territorial visibilities that these facilities, and sexual opportunities, afford gay men may not be available to (and may not be sought by) women [63].…”

Section: Gendering Geographies Of Sexualitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Imagining Cities, Living the Other: Between the Gay Urban Idyll and Rural Lesbian Lives

Browne¹

2009

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By focusing on often neglected lesbian geographies, this paper deconstructs the urban/rural divide which has pervaded discussions of (sexual) geographies. In particular, the paper addresses the intersections between imaginings of urban idylls (what could be termed the urban gay) and how these places 'beyond' can, in part, (in)form everyday lives in small towns (what could be termed the lesbian rural). In doing this, the paper furthers lesbian geographies by examining how fantasises and imaginings of cities become important to 22 lesbians women who live in a small town in the South West of England. The problematic assumptions of visible sexual expressions and 'gay' territories as central defining features of lives outside heterosexuality are contested. The paper examines the messy interstices, movements and interactions between towns and cities in the UK, through lesbian negotiations and understandings of everyday life.

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Section: Gendering Geographies Of Sexualitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Beyond the Urban/rural?: Understanding The Homosexual Urbanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gendering Geographies Of Sexualitiesmentioning

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Imagining Cities, Living the Other: Between the Gay Urban Idyll and Rural Lesbian Lives

Browne¹

2009

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“…Productive work has explored how sensations experienced within queer spaces ''produce embodied emotions of attraction, disgust, arousal, identity, (dis)connectivity and belonging'' (Taylor and Falconer, 2015: 45; also see Nash and Bain 2007;Waitt and Johnson, 2013) and recent work has highlighted the sensuousness of migrant settlement (Lobo, 2014b;Wise, 2010). These aesthetic forms and modes of relation give space to encounters, even as encounters themselves can shift, disrupt, or reinforce these coordinates.…”

Section: The Aesthetic Politics Of Encountermentioning

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“I never felt targeted as an Asian … until I went to a gay pub”: Sexual racism and the aesthetic geographies of the bad encounter

Ruez

2016

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Abstract:Encounters across difference-in city spaces marked by diverse migration trajectories, cultural differences, and racialized hierarchies-have captured the attention of urban scholars concerned with both the challenge of ''living with difference'' and the promise of multicultural conviviality that inhere in the super-diversity of many cities. Expanding on approaches that focus on analyzing the conditions of a good or ''meaningful'' encounter that can reduce prejudice or promote intercultural understanding, this paper brings interviews with queer Asian men in Sydney, Australia into dialogue with Sara Ahmed's revaluation of the ''bad encounter.'' It shows how research on encounters can more productively engage with how negative encounters can become meaningful political occasions in their own right. Focusing on the problem of sexual racism as it emerges in accounts shared by participants, the paper highlights dating and sex as important moments through which the aesthetic orderings of race, gender, and sexuality shape the unevenly shared spaces of citizenship and urban life.

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“…Careful analyses in queer geography have further provided insights into these claims and shown that they are to be understood in a wider context of class, gender, ethnicity and regionality (Longhurst 2008). Gay neighborhoods may be a western phenomenon and moreover available only to those who can afford to live in them (Rushbrook 2002), queer events or organisations may re-enforce gendered norms (Nash & Baine 2007), and moreover be de-politicized and claimed as a hallmark for the cosmopolitan stance of the city in question (Bell & Binnie 2004;Stella 2013). We suggest that religio-sexual and nationalist discourses on homosexuality need to be understood in the context of this complex ideological struggle over the perception of the city, in this case Belgrade.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pride Parades and/or Prayer Processions: Contested Public Space in Serbia #Belgrade Pride 2014

2015

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In post-Yugoslav countries, national identity seems to be increasingly defined by the formulation of a traditional discourse on sexuality and gender, culminating in a growing interference of religious institutions with national debates and policies on LGBTrights. In this paper we aim to gain more insight into the discursive effects of such sexual nationalist discourse by exploring responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the 2014 Belgrade Pride parade. Drawing from theories on religious and sexual nationalism and queer geography, we will argue that while the Serbian Orthodox discourse on homosexuality is becoming more secular, this secularization of public speech is compensated by a strategy of reclaiming the streets of Belgrade through politically charged public religious ritual. As the church is in this way making its anti-LGBT attitude physical and visible, Serbian citizens are increasingly requested to agree to Church teachings on sexuality and gender as a prerequisite for religious participation, resulting in an increasing divide between those "within" and "without" the community of Orthodox Serbs.

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‘Reclaiming raunch’? Spatializing queer identities at Toronto women's bathhouse events

Cited by 111 publications

References 28 publications

Imagining Cities, Living the Other: Between the Gay Urban Idyll and Rural Lesbian Lives

Imagining Cities, Living the Other: Between the Gay Urban Idyll and Rural Lesbian Lives

“I never felt targeted as an Asian … until I went to a gay pub”: Sexual racism and the aesthetic geographies of the bad encounter

Pride Parades and/or Prayer Processions: Contested Public Space in Serbia #Belgrade Pride 2014

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