Queers in Space (English)

Queers in Space: Claiming the Urban Landscape makes space the new frontier of queer theory. In a vital and wide-ranging collection of essays, Queers in Space examines queer experience in its local, regional, and global contexts. Grounded in the geography of queer social relationships, Queers in Space reframes the terms of current thinking about gay and lesbian identities, communities, visibility, and activism. In Queers in Space, activists, scholars, and community leaders explore personal, political and economic links to the places where we live, work, play, and travel -- outdoor and indoor, public and private, highly eroticized, and less sexualized but more communal. From nation to neighborhood to nightclub, Queers in Space envisions the shifting and often hidden locations of queer experience, and reflects on how queer neighborhoods and communities have historically been defined and named. Queers in Space makes mapping these territories a way of defending and reinventing the queer social landscape. In the process, it creates a new vocabulary to describe queers in space and explores the implications of site-specificity for queer politics. Queers in Space powerfully demonstrates that queer cartography is a crucial step in coming out and coming home. Queers in Space will be an important collection for scholars and students of gay and lesbian studies, cultural studies, and urban studies. minimize