Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space In The Wake Of The City

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It investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. The "gay village," "gay mecca," "gai Paris," the "lesbian flaneur," the "lesbian bohme" - these and other urban phantasmogoria feature paradoxically in this volume as figures of revolutionary utopia and commodity spectacle, as fossilized archetypes of social transformation and ruins of haunting cultural potential.

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"Queer Constellations sets a new standard and methodological trend in queer studies. A major contribution to the space/place debates." Cindy Patton, author of Globalizing AIDS
"Inspired, eloquent, and compelling. [Queer Constellations] freshly and bravely revisits gay and lesbian culture tropes and questions cultural assumptions from all quarters. The apparent hedonism and frivolity of consumerism is given a tough dressing down through its links to wreckage, displacement, and ruin, while its connection to cultural production and urban economics is underscored. And most significant of all, the powerful concept of queer constellation is developed and forged into a real tool for understanding the trans/formations of queer cultures." Journal of the History of Sexuality