Aligning Our Maps: A Call to Reconcile Distinct Visions of Literatures on Sexualities, Space, and Place

Recent invitations to expand the geographic scope of analyses of place and sexualities beyond the “gayborhood” (Brown 2014; Ghaziani 2014; Stone 2018) are at once welcome and curious. In this response piece, I echo Amin Ghaziani's call in his lead symposium essay to document heterogeneity, whic...

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Published in:City & community 2019-03, Vol.18 (1), p.37-43
Main Author: Brown‐Saracino, Japonica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archipelagoes
Bisexuality
Counties
Households
Lesbianism
LGBTQ people
Sexuality
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Summary:Recent invitations to expand the geographic scope of analyses of place and sexualities beyond the “gayborhood” (Brown 2014; Ghaziani 2014; Stone 2018) are at once welcome and curious. In this response piece, I echo Amin Ghaziani's call in his lead symposium essay to document heterogeneity, which he proposes scholars do by using his timely and important concept of “cultural archipelagos” (also see 2014). However, I also caution that by overstating gaps in the literature, our response to such calls can risk reinforcing the invisibility of populations and places that we seek to rectify. In doing so, I combine my reading of the literature and my ethnographic research in a variety of queer settlements, from a Chicago neighborhood and a high‐profile LGBTQ vacation destination (Brown‐Saracino 2004, 2007, 2009) to small cities in rural counties that are popular with lesbian, bisexual, and queer female households (Brown‐Saracino 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017).
ISSN:1535-6841
1540-6040
DOI:10.1111/cico.12378