Rethinking queer migration through the body

Gorman‐Murray, Andrew

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“…More importantly, the gay male subjects targeted by health institutions are not necessarily fixed in place at all. Geographers have long suggested that gay men and other sexual minority individuals move frequently throughout the life course to come out, improve their health and well-being, and negotiate variegated landscapes of stigma and inclusion (Knopp 2004;Gorman-Murray 2007;Lewis 2012Lewis , 2014aLewis , 2014b.…”

Section: Sexuality Place and Gay Men's Healthmentioning

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Placing HIV beyond the metropolis: Risks, mobilities, and health promotion among gay men in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region

Lewis

2015

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Research on HIV/AIDS among gay men in North America has departed from pure disease diffusion models to consider the social and environmental contexts where transmission may take place. Most of this work, however, focuses on large metropolitan areas and operationalizes the concept of place with only some degree of nuance. Large cities-and the bars, bathhouses, and gay villages within them-are often treated as containers of attributes that contribute to and concretize HIV risk. This article therefore seeks to apply a critical, ecological conception of place to understanding HIV risk, education, and prevention among gay men in the small city-region of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Using in-depth interviews with HIV/AIDS-related service providers and self-identified gay men, the study highlights four dynamics of HIV risk potentially affecting gay men in smaller cities and rural areas: (1) institutional ambivalence toward HIV education and messaging, (2) narrow conceptions of risk, (3) migrations into unfamiliar social and sexual environments, and (4) social and structural barriers to health service utilization. Keywords: HIV/AIDS, gay men, Nova Scotia, sexual health, health promotionSituer le VIH au-del a de la m etropole : les risques, les mobilit es, et la promotion de la sant e chez les hommes gais dans la r egion d'Halifax, NouvelleEcosseLes travaux de recherche men es sur le VIH/sida chez les hommes gais en Am erique du Nord ont rompu avec les mod eles limit es a la diffusion de la maladie afin de tenir compte davantage des contextes sociaux et environnementaux de transmissions possibles. Cependant, ce corpus scientifique est consacr e aux grandes r egions m etropolitaines et applique la notion de lieu de faS con peu nuanc ee. Les grandes villes, les bars, les saunas, et les villages gais qu'on y retrouve sont souvent d esign es comme des milieux caract eris es par les attributs qui favorisent et concr etisent le risque de transmission du VIH. S'appuyant sur une conception ecologique critique du lieu, cet article a pour objet de mettre en lumi ere le risque, les programmes d' education et la pr evention en mati ere de VIH chez les hommes gais a Halifax, NouvelleEcosse, une viller egion de petite taille. Au moyen d'entrevues r ealis ees aupr es de fournisseurs de services sp ecialis es dans le VIH/sida et aupr es d'hommes s' etant d eclar es gais, l' etude montre combien les dynamiques sociales et institutionnelles particuli eres ont une influence sur la faS con dont les gais de la r egion conS coivent et se pr eoccupent du risque de transmission du VIH. Leurs r ecits mettent en evidence l'ambivalence institutionnelle envers les programmes d' education et la communication de messages portant sur le VIH, les n egociations individuelles complexes entourant l'identit e sexuelle et l'acte sexuel proprement dit, et les obstacles a l'acc es aux services de sant e sexuelle. Il en ressort un agencement particulier de discours sur le VIH et des risques potentiels que courent les hommes gais dans les petites villes et les autres ...

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Section: Sexuality Place and Gay Men's Healthmentioning

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Placing HIV beyond the metropolis: Risks, mobilities, and health promotion among gay men in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region

Lewis

2015

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Investigations of ruralities have moved sexual practices away from categories of identities that rely on 'urban' manifestations of gay sexualities, such as gay ghettos, or even the necessity of defining within the category 'gay' or 'homosexual' [44,45] and with the advent of 'queer' questioned the boundaries, privileges and normativities of such categories [18,30,46]. The re-claiming of a rural idyll within what is assumed to be oppressive countryside has been the task for some authors [2,6,43,47]. Yet as Spurlin notes the rural is diverse and it is important not to essentialise particular places [48].…”

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“…Moreover, Knopp and Brown [3] argue that the simple diffusion model that sees innovations as coming from urbanities and diffusing to ruralities is problematic. They go on to reveal complex spatialities challenging the view of big cities as 'urban utopias' and explore the multiple spatial scales that are negotiated in the creation of sexual subjectivities [2].…”

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“…Geographies of sexualities have conceptualised cities, as Weston notes, as an 'escape from the isolation of the countryside and the surveillance of small-town life in contrast to the freedom and anonymity of the urban landscape' [1] p. 274) [1][2][3]. In this way 'cities' have often been constructed as urban utopias which beckon those who wish to enact 'deviant' sexualities [1,4].…”

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“…The relational constitution of cities/towns/villages/ruralities unsettles the urban/rural divide, revealing that the urban and rural, while useful in discussions within (gay/lesbian/non-heterosexual) geographies has particular limitations. Some of these have been highlighted in terms of movement, embodiments and unfixities [2,4], yet how the urban/rural binary is lived as fixed rather than moveable and fluid has yet to be examined. By deconstructing the urban/rural binary in relation to sexual, practices identities and particularly imaginings this paper aims to augment lesbian geographies beyond urban spaces.…”

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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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Transnational Geographies of the Heart

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Rethinking queer migration through the body

Cited by 139 publications

References 26 publications

Placing HIV beyond the metropolis: Risks, mobilities, and health promotion among gay men in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region

Placing HIV beyond the metropolis: Risks, mobilities, and health promotion among gay men in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region

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

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