Queer Cities, Queer Cultures

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.

Introduction Matt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) & Jennifer Evans (Carleton University, Canada)Pasts1. The Queer Margins of Spanish Cities, 1939-2010 Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds, UK), Rosa Maria Medina Doménech (University of Granada, Spain) & Isabel Vélez (independent scholar)2. Capital Stories: Local Lives in Queer London Matt Cook3. The Queer Road to Frisind: Copenhagen 1945-2012 Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)4. Harmless Kisses and Infinite Loops: Making Space for Queer Place in 21st Century Berlin Jennifer Evans5. From Stalinist Pariahs to Subjects of 'Managed Democracy': Queers in Moscow 1945 to the Present Dan Healey (University of Oxford, UK)6. Queer Amsterdam 1945-2010 Gert Hekma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)7. Ljubljana: The Tales from the Queer Margins of the City Roman Kuhar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)8. Mapping/ Unmapping: The Making of Queer Athens Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford University, UK)9. Istanbul: Queer Desires between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop Ralph Poole (Salzburg University, Austria)10. Queering Budapest Judit Takács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)11. Two Cities of Helsinki? One Liberally Gay and One Practically Queer? Antu Sorainen (Academy of Finland)12. Paris: 'Resting on its Laurels'? Florence Tamagne (University of Lille, France)Closing Reflections13. 'Gays Who Cannot Properly be Gay'. Queer Muslims in the Neoliberal European City Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California, San Diego)14. Seeing Like a Queer City Tom Boellstorff (University of California, Irvine)