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Zusatztext 'Johnston's books is an extremely credible addition to the present gay and lesbian scholarship. It provides an excellent! critical review of politics and performances at gay Pride parades! written with clarity of style'. - Neil Michael Walsh! Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Informationen zum Autor Lynda Johnston is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social/cultural and feminist geography, critical social theory and tourism. Klappentext Gay Pride parades are often fantastic spectacles of corporeality with drag queens, buff boys, dykes on bikes, leather bears taking part, increasingly these parades are forming the basis of a growing international queer tourism market. From Sydney to Rome Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events. The book explores how the public display of queer bodies--how they look, what they do, who watches, and under what regulations--is profoundly important constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and cities. Gay pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals 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. In each place, Queering Tourism 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 knowledges. Zusammenfassung Examining the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism, and using empirical data gathered at gay pride parades, this important work considers how the queered spaces of these parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. Acknowledgements 1. Proud Beginnings 2. Queer(y)ing Tourism Knowledges 3. Bodies: Camped up Performances 4. Street Scenes: Tourism with(out) Borders 5. Sex in the Suburbs or the CBD? 6. Cities as Sexualised Sites of Queer Consumption 7. Paradoxical Endings ...
