"Examines the rise and development of an LGBTQ community in the heart of Central Pennsylvania, and how gay identity and social and advocacy networks form outside of a large urban environment"--
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"This book applies a framework of 'trans vitalities' through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, D.C. Specifically, it considers how trans social justice work at the local level and exemplifies why and how the notions o…
Introduction tracing entangled trans desire lines : vitalities and geometries of motion -- Trans studies and anthropologists studying 'trans people' -- Washington, DC : depicting trans spatialities -- Mapping as method : articulations of bodies in place -- Mapping ideology and e…
Introduction -- "Owning" and questioning LGBT communities -- Diversity, inequality and prejudice amongst LGBT people -- Lived experience and "doing" community -- Relationships to, within and beyond physical spaces -- The pleasures and pains of scene spaces -- Pride spaces, ritua…
"The phrase 'LGBT community' is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Ar…
"The phrase 'LGBT community' is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Ar…
"In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual and social worlds, arti…