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Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space

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  • Beverley Skeggs

    (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, bev.skeggs@man.ac.uk)

  • Leslie Moran

    (Department of Law, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK, L.moran@bbk.ac.uk)

  • Paul Tyrer

    (Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK,)

  • Jon Binnie

    (Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK, j.binreie@mmu.ac.uk)

Abstract

This paper is about the construction of space and place in the urban imaginary. It draws on multidisciplinary empirical research—on Violence, Sexuality and Space—conducted in a place that was simultaneously represented in one of the most controversial programmes ever to be screened on British television— Queer as Folk. As the television programme intervened in the responses from the interviews and focus groups, we begin, through an exploration of spatial referents and characterisation, to explore the `authentic' underpinning for the queer imaginary. We examine the sexual politics of place and space as a politics of verisimilitude, affectivity and political claims-making.

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  • Beverley Skeggs & Leslie Moran & Paul Tyrer & Jon Binnie, 2004. "Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(9), pages 1839-1856, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:41:y:2004:i:9:p:1839-1856
    DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000243183
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    1. J Binnie, 1997. "Invisible Europeans: Sexual Citizenship in the New Europe," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 29(2), pages 237-248, February.
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