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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784829203321

Autore

Johnston Lynda <1964->

Titolo

Queering tourism [[electronic resource] ] : paradoxical performances at gay pride parades / / Lynda Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-42914-2

1-281-15788-0

9786611157883

0-203-96380-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in human geography ; ; 11

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Gay pride parades

Gay Pride Day

Gay men

Gay men - Travel

Lesbians

Lesbians - Travel

Homosexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [128]-139) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title: Queering Tourism; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Proud beginnings; 2 Queer(y)ing tourism knowledges; 3 Bodies; 4 Street scenes; 5 Sex in the suburbs or the CBD?; 6 Cities as sites of queer consumption; 7 Paradoxical endings; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals and written media accounts,



photographs, advertisement