Gay Tourism : Culture and Context.

Gay Tourism : Culture and Context.

The gay tourism industry?a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waitt, Gordon
Other Authors: Markwell, Kevin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Subjects:
Gay people > Travel.
Gay people > Social life and customs.
Culture and tourism.
Sex tourism.
Culture and tourism
Gays > Social life and customs
Gays > Travel
Sex tourism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Gay Tourism; Introduction; Gay Tourism in the Age of Mobility; Establishing Our Theoretical Framework; Approaching the Topic-Becoming Personal; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 2. Charting the Emergence of Gay Tourism; Introduction; Scripting and Circulating Ideas About Homosexual Destinations in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; The Emergence of City and Resort Destinations, 1920-1969.
  • Out and About: Bringing Gay Tourism Out of the Closet, 1969 to PresentConclusion; Chapter 3. Selling Gay Paradise: Spatial and Social Discourses of Gay Tourism Travelogues; Travel, Texts, and Representations of Gay Paradise; Clarification of Method; Mapping Gay Destinations and Scripting Sexuality; Paradise of Australia: Imagining Australia As "Macho-opolis"; Paradise of the Russian Federation and Central Europe: Imagining Russia and Central Europe As "Twink-opolis"; Paradise of Hawai'i: Imagining Hawai'i As a Place of "True" Romantic Homosexual Love.
  • Paradise of Gay Mykonos: Imagining Mykonos As "Euro-Gay Clubopolis"Gay Sexual Utopias and Cultures of Gay Travel; Chapter 4. Touring the Heterosexual Nation; Introducing Gay Tourism and "National Closets": Nationalism, Citizenship, and Sexuality; Nations and Nationalism: Performing an Imagined Heteronormative Community; Marketing Nations As Gay-Friendly Tourism Destinations: Reestablishing or Challenging the Imagined Heterosexual Family Nation?; Arabian State Encounters with Gay Tourism; Caribbean Encounters with Gay Tourism; Gay Tourism and Closeting of the Nation.
  • Chapter 5. Touring the Sexualized CitySelling, Mapping, and Touring the City As "Gay Villages"; Selling "Gay-Friendly" Cities Through Inventing Bounded "Gay Villages"; Selling Sexualized City Spaces: "Gay Villages" As Spaces of Constructed Visibility; Nongay Narratives of Resistance to Pitching, Bounding, and Mapping City Spaces As "Gay"; Cities Through the Body: (Re)Sexualizing the Body Through Gay City Spaces; Queer Narratives of Resistance to Bounding Gay City Space: Marking Out the Gay Unwanted; Selling Gay to Nongay Tourists: The Straight Eye for Bent Attractions.
  • Implications of Nongay Tourists in the Gay VillageConclusion; Chapter 6. Special Events and Festivals; Celebration!-Come On, Let's Celebrate; Sexuality and the City-Relax, When You Want to Come: Gay Place Making Through Event Tourism; Where's the Party?-Spin Me Right Round, Round, Round; Why Party?-Make Me Feel Mighty Real: The Significance of Special Events for Gay Tourism and Gay Cultures; Embodying Pride Through Marching-I Am What I Am; Playing the Field-What's the Name of the Game?; A Gay Day Out-Just a Perfect Day; Dancing the Circuit-Get into the Groove.

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