The place of transversal LGBTQ+ urban activisms. (May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Spruce, Emma
• Other Names: Bain Alison L guest-editor.; Podmore Julie A guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban studies. Volume 58:Number 7(2021)
• Page Start: 1520
• Page End: 1528
• Publication Date: 2021-05
• Subjects: feminist -- LGBTQ+ -- queer -- transversal activisms -- urban justice; 女权主义者 -- 男女同性恋 -- 双性恋 -- 变性人和酷儿群体 (LGBTQ+) -- 酷儿 -- 横向激进主义 -- 城市正义; Cities and towns -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; 307.1216
• DOI: 10.1177/0042098020986063
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0980

Abstract

This special issue on placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms seeks to affirm the plurality of LGBTQ+ activisms and expand the geographic lens to consider places that have been side-lined as sites of LGBTQ+ political ferment. In this article I reflect on the ways that the collection also gestures towards the importance of 'connective' LGBTQ+ urban activisms, complicating existing theorisation that has primarily focused on transnational relations. Approaching it through the particular space and time of London during the Covid-19 pandemic, I interpret the collection as a call to explore the knowledge that becomes available – and the praxis that is foregrounded – when we examine the connective dimensions of LGBTQ+ urban activisms. Bridging feminist, queer and urban studies, I conclude by arguing for the particular analytic lens that emerges when 'place' is brought into critical tension with 'transversal politics' as a way to think about both those connective LGBTQ+ urban activisms that already exist and those which are urgently needed.