The margins of the city : gay men's urban lives

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The margins of the city : gay men's urban lives

edited by Stephen Whittle

(Popular cultural studies, 6)

Arena , Ashgate, c1994

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Bibliographical references: p. 170-171

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Within cities, gay life has always been marginalized in social, political and cultural terms, even although significant gay places have often been geographically centrally placed. This work looks at the physical and spatial development of gay places over the last 25 years in a social context.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 It's queer up 'North: gay communities and gay space in the city
  • consuming differences - the collaboration of the gay body with the cultural state. Part 2 Tales of the cities: community with/out pro-pink-uity
  • gentrification by gay male communities - a case study of Toronto's Cabbagetown
  • a sociological pub crawl around gay Newcastle. Part 3 Marginal issues: gayspeak, the linguistic fringe - bona polari, camp, queerspeak, and beyond
  • bi-sexuality - a place on the margins
  • sex in the margins
  • the twilight world of the sado-masochist.

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  • NCID
    BA23758843
  • ISBN
    • 1857422015
    • 1857422023
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot, Hants,Brookfield, Vt.
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 171 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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