The margins of the city : gay men's urban lives
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Bibliographic Information
The margins of the city : gay men's urban lives
(Popular cultural studies, 6)
Arena , Ashgate, c1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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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