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Queer City
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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-05-25
Queer City written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Social Science categories.
‘Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts’ Simon Callow, Guardian In this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (‘wolf dens’ or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music and the horror of AIDS. Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other.
Queer City
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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Queer Cities Queer Cultures
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Author : Jennifer V. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Queer Cities Queer Cultures written by Jennifer V. Evans and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with History categories.
Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the stories we typically tell about Europe and its watershed moments in the post 1945 period. The book considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968 and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades, raising questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forcing us to think about how we define sexual liberalization - and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. An international team of authors explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; differing modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the importance of mobility and immigration in modulating queer urban life; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet. By exploring the queer histories of cities from Istanbul to Helsinki and Moscow to Madrid, Queer Cities, Queer Cultures makes a significant contribution to our understanding of urban history, European history and the history of gender and sexuality.
Queer City
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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : it
Publisher: SEM
Release Date : 2018-03-13T00:00:00+01:00
Queer City written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by SEM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Nella Londra romana l’omosessualità era più che accettata. La città era ricca di lupanari e piscine pubbliche deputate al piacere, terme e bordelli. Poi arrivò l’imperatore Costantino con vescovi e missionari; il suo regolamento conteneva le prime leggi contro le pratiche queer. Seguì un’alternanza infinita di permissività e censura, dal travestitismo femminile alla moda nel 1620 alle frenetiche esecuzioni per sodomia dei primi dell’Ottocento, fino alla ‘peste’ gay negli anni Ottanta. Ackroyd ci porta in una città nascosta, celebrandone la diversità e l’energia; nel contempo ci ricorda i suoi terrori e i rischi. In una città di superlativi, forse sono questa fluidità sessuale e l’infinita resilienza che incarnano il vero trionfo della City. Dopo la monumentale opera Londra. Una biografia, l’autore offre un’altra esperienza di lettura unica. Con questo libro Ackroyd lancia un avviso sull’accettazione dell’omosessualità. Trasportandoci in tutti i periodi oscuri della storia gay, Queer City è un preoccupante promemoria di una peculiarità della storia: ciò che è oggi non significa che sarà sempre.
Queer Cities Queer Cultures
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Author : Jennifer V. Evans
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Queer Cities Queer Cultures written by Jennifer V. Evans and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with History categories.
Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the stories we typically tell about Europe and its watershed moments in the post 1945 period. The book considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968 and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades, raising questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forcing us to think about how we define sexual liberalization - and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. An international team of authors explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; differing modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the importance of mobility and immigration in modulating queer urban life; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet. By exploring the queer histories of cities from Istanbul to Helsinki and Moscow to Madrid, Queer Cities, Queer Cultures makes a significant contribution to our understanding of urban history, European history and the history of gender and sexuality.
Mapping The Queer City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Mapping The Queer City written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Pleasure Zones
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Author : David Bell
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-01
Pleasure Zones written by David Bell and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-01 with Social Science categories.
How does a subculture appropriate space within the dominant culture? What is the city's relationship to the body? Geographers from England and New Zealand apply queer theory in their consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. These provocative essays examine the body as an entity constricted by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, and disability. They also look at sexual identity as it relates to communities, and how humans "do" gender through regulated practices such as heterosexuality. Pleasure Zones tackles topics such as the politics of gay men's health; the relationship of sex and death to the city; erotic urban landscapes, and how public policy labels lesbians. Each essay attempts to reconcile queer theory and social and cultural theory with the discipline of geography. The result is an illuminating and accessible look at the formation of personal and collective identities. Building on two decades of geography that recognizes the body as a politicized site of struggle, and applying the perspective of the sexual dissident, Pleasure Zones brings a fascinating variety of human experiences into sharp relief.
Queer City
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Author : Craig Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (Australia)
Release Date : 2001
Queer City written by Craig Johnston and has been published by Pluto Press (Australia) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Collection of essays on key political issues facing gay men and women in Sydney. Topics covered include reconciliation, religion, cyber-activism, lobbying, lesbian activisms, the Mardi Gras, HIV/AIDS, pedophilia, media, violence and safety, and Sydney's claim to global queer status. Questions the gay community's social and political achievements. Includes endnotes, notes on contributors, and index. Foreword by Julie McCrossin. Johnston is a writer and social commentator who is an openly gay member of Sydney City Council and co-founder of the Gay Rights Lobby. Van Reyk is a freelance journalist and gay activist who writes on gay politics, HIV/AIDS and gay community issues.
Wide Open Town
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Author : Nan Alamilla Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-05-23
Wide Open Town written by Nan Alamilla Boyd and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era, Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and, ultimately, offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records, oral histories, tourist literature, and manuscript collections from local and state archives, Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"—a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965. Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life, its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities, and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city, Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history.
Stand Up For Singapore
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Author : Chris K. K. Tan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Stand Up For Singapore written by Chris K. K. Tan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Social Science categories.
This book details queer Singaporeans’ efforts to fashion their sense of national belonging and highlights how the Singaporean state could have better incorporated its diverse population into its nation-building framework. Inspired by previous studies that document the history of the gay rights movement, the construction of post-colonial lesbian identities, and online queer activism, this book invokes the concept of "cultural citizenship." It argues that as citizens, gay men appreciate the material wealth the People’s Action Party (PAP) has created. Yet, the PAP’s illiberal governance inhibits the development of genuine fondness for the party and, by extension, the nation. Worse, the state’s heteronormative social policies further alienate these men. Even so, queer Singaporeans continue to assert their national belonging during Pink Dot and other queer events. As the first monograph to focus on Singaporean gay men, this book aims to enrich scholarly understanding of queer life in Southeast Asia. Academics and students of anthropology and sociology (especially those interested in the nation-state), Southeast Asian Studies, and Queer Studies will find this book innovative and insightful.