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Queering Tourism - Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades (Paperback)
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Queering Tourism - Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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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 analyzes 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, visual and
written media accounts, photographs, advertisements, and her own
participation in these parades, Lynda Johnston gives a vibrant
account of 'queer tourism' in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and
Italy. For each place, she looks at how the relationship between
the viewer and the viewed produces paradoxical concepts of bodily
difference, and considers how the queered spaces of gay pride
parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism.
Examining the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism, and
using empirical data gathered at Gay Pride parades such as the
Sydney Mardi Gras, New Zealand HERO Parade and World Pride Roma
2000, this important work produces a deconstructive account of
tourism and presents new ways of thinking through the powerful
processes of subjectivity formation.
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