Research Catalog

Title

Queers in space : communities, public places, sites of resistance / edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter.

Publication

Seattle, Wash. : Bay Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors

• Retter, Yolanda, 1947-2007
• Ingram, Gordon Brent
• Bouthillette, Anne-Marie

Description

viii, 530 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book explores the interactions between queer identity, experience, and activism and a range of communal and public spaces.

Subject

• Lesbian community
• Gay community
• Gays > Identity
• Lesbians > Identity
• Gay men > Political activity
• Lesbians > Political activity
• Homosexuality and architecture
• City and town life
• Gay men > Identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-522).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Lost in space: queer theory and community activism at the fin-de-millénaire / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter -- Queer space / Jean-Ulrick Désert -- Marginality and the landscapes of erotic alien(n)ations / Gordon Brent Ingram -- Part 1. Experience, place, maps : Narratives of place: subjective and collective / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter -- Restriction and reclamation: lesbian bars and beaches of the 1950s / Joan Nestle -- The interim photographs / Bill Jacobson -- People and their streets, places / Sarah Schulman -- One-handed geographies: an archaeology of public sex / David Bell -- Part 2. Queerscapes : Surveying territories and landscapes / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter -- "Open" space as strategic queer sites / Gordon Brent Ingram -- "No more shit": the struggle for democratic gay space in Toronto / John Grube --^
• From landmarks to spaces: mapping the territory of a bisexual genealogy / Clare Hemmings -- Domestic dykes: the politics of "in-difference" / Elsie Jay -- Part 3. Regional dynamics and community formation : Queer zones and enclaves: political economies of community formation / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter -- San Francisco: revisiting "the city of desire" / Pat Califia -- Gay male places of Mexico City / Alvaro Sanchez-Crispin and Alvaro Lopez-Lopez -- Queer and gendered housing: a tale of two neighbourhoods in Vancouver / Anne-Marie Bouthillette -- The queer nation acts up: health care, politics, and the sexual diversity in the County of Angels, 1990-92 / Ty Geltmaker -- Constructing Manchester's "new urban village": gay spaces in the entrepreneurial city / Stephen Quilley -- Part 4. Queer sites : Placemaking and the dialectics of public and private / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter --^
• Invisible women in invisible places: the production of social space in lesbian bars / Maxine Wolfe -- Lesbian spaces in Los Angeles, 1970-1990 / Yolanda Retter -- Leather nights in the woods: locating male homosexuality and sadomasochism in a Dutch highway rest area / Maurice van Lieshout -- Queer spaces in New York City: places of struggle, places of strength / Betti-Sue Hertz, Ed Eisenberg, and Lisa Maya Knauer of the REPOhistory Collective -- Part 5. Queerscape architectures : making room: queerscape architectures and the spaces of activism / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter -- Having something to wear: the landscape of identity on Christopher Street / James Polchin -- The meaning at the wall: tracing the gay bathhouse / Ira Tattelman -- This is about people dying: the tactics of early ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers in New York City: an interview with Maxine Wolfe / Laraine Sommella --^
• Do you love the dyke in your face? / Carrie Moyer and Dyke Action Machine! -- Strategies for (re)constructing queer communities / Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter.

ISBN

0941920445 (paper)

LCCN

^^^97011611^

OCLC

• 36647899
• SCSB-11604150

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library