Ordinary in Brighton? : LGBT, activisms and the city / Kath Browne, Leela Bakshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Kath, 1977-

Contributor:

Bakshi, Leela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--England--Brighton--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Government policy--England--Brighton.

LGBTQ+ activism.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ordinary in Brighton? offers the first large scale examination of the impact of the UK equalities legislation on lesbian, gay, bi- and trans (LGBT) people themselves and the effects of these changes on the nature of LGBT political activism. Using the participatory research project, Count Me In Too, this book investigates the material issues of social/spatial injustice that were pertinent for some, but not all, LGBT people, and activisms that worked with/within through partnership working. Despite the common trope that there is much written about 'gay Brighton', there is in fact very little aca

Contents:

Equalities, cities and ordinariness : introduction

Contextualising research and researching contexts : situating participatory projects

The promise of ordinary lives in a city paved with "gay gold"

The gay scene : having it all?

Under our umbrella? : contesting and re-creating ordinariness

Ordinary activisms : possibilities beyond the dichotomies of radicalism/assimilation

Resistant ordinary activisms : safe in the "gay city"?

Is pride political? : beyond (oppositional) politics in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans festivals

Ordinary in brighton? : conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-59906-6

1-317-08515-9

1-317-08514-0

1-4724-1295-8

9781315599069

OCLC:

858281983