Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization

by Puar, Jasbir K.; LA Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780822365167
• ISBN10: 0822365162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Over the last several decades, queer sexualities, tourism industry marketing, tourist practices, and consumption patterns have converged to produce burgeoning outlets for the mobility of queer subjects. In the first collection ever devoted to scholarly articles on queer tourism, this special double issue ofGLQhighlights the connections between political economy and sexuality and contributes to an emgerging body of literature on queer sexualities and globalization. Essays explore a range of geographical areas and cover topics that include an autoethnographic account of a queer traveler in Cuba, the development of gay and lesbian tourism in Madrid and Mexico, and gay and lesbian tourist events such as World Pride 2001 in Rome. The collection also includes an essay focusing on lesbian tourism-a study of the history of lesbian tourism on Eresos, Lesvos.Contributors.Lionel Cantuacute;, Gabriel Giorgi, Venetia Kantsa, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Michael Luongo, Kevin Markwell, Jasbir Kaur Puar, Dereka Rushbrook

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Jasbir Kaur Puar
De un Pajaro las dos Alas: Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican in Havana
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes	7	(28)
``Certain Places Have Different Energy'': Spatial Transformations in Eresos, Lesvos	35	(22)
Venetia Kantsa
Madrid en Transito: Travelers, Visibility, and Gay Identity	57	(24)
Gabriel Giorgi
Mardi Gras Tourism and the Construction of Sydney As an International Gay and Lesbian City	81	(20)
Kevin Markwell
Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourusm, Travel, and Globalization	101	(38)
Jasbir Kaur Puar
De Ambiente: Queer Tourism and the Shifting Boundaries of Mexican Male Sexualities	139	(28)
Lionel Cantu
Rome's World Pride: Making the Eternal City an International Gay Tourism Destination	167	(16)
Michael Luongo
Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist	183	(44)
Dereka Rushbrook
The GLQ Archive
AFSC Hawai'i Gay Liberation Program: Activist Materials Addressing Tourism
American Friends Service Committee	207	(20)
Book Review
The Easy Way Out: Gays and Lesbians in Academia	227	(14)
John Champagne
The GLQ Gallery
Slippery When Wet: An Exhibition Dossier	241	(10)
Sarah L. Stifler
About the Contributors	251