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Get Thee to a Big City: Sexual Imaginary and the Great Gay Migration
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This article is published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.The article was published on 1995-06-01. It has received 327 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: The Imaginary.read more
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Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress
Jon Binnie,Gill Valentine +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the recent rapid growth of work on the geographies of sexuality and argues that, while sexuality has become an area of considerable interest within social and cultural life, it is not necessarily a suitable area of research.
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Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay ‘scene’ as a paradoxical space
Gill Valentine,Tracey Skelton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the positive roles that the scene can play in helping young people to find themselves as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood, and consider the risks that they can encounter in the process.
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Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization
TL;DR: In 1998, the Cayman Islands had refused docking privileges to a so-called gay cruise originating in the United States, and several other Caribbean governments expressed the intention to refuse the same cruise ship and those that might follow.
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Intimate mobilities: emotional embodiment and queer migration
TL;DR: This paper examined the emotionally embodied nature of queer migration in the contemporary West, focusing on the body as a vector of displacement and exploring how emotions, desires and intimate attachments shape queer mobilities.
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“Abomination”—Life as a Bible Belt Gay
TL;DR: The geographic region of the Bible Belt intersects with religious-based homophobia and Informants explained that negative social attitudes about homosexuality caused a range of harmful consequences in their lives including the fear of going to hell, depression, low self-esteem, and feelings of worthlessness.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees
TL;DR: The authors examines the place of refugees in the national order of things and suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees.
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
Mark C. Carnes,George Chauncey +1 more
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
TL;DR: A fascinating look at a gay world that was not supposed to have existed, this book shows that gay life in prewar New York was extensively integrated into the straight world as discussed by the authors.