Homosexuals the cy: reprentatns of lbian and gay space neteenth-century Paris
Contents:
- CHAPTER 15: GAY PARIS, 1889 90
- HOMOSEXUALS THE CY: REPRENTATNS OF LBIAN AND GAY SPACE NETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS
CHAPTER 15: GAY PARIS, 1889 90
Th, no geographer has llaborated wh the many dictnari and encyclopedias published recent years, which have been voted to homosexual cultur, nor participated the symposiums spired by Gay and Lbian Studi the Uned Stat on this subject, (such as the Renntr ternatnal sur l cultur gays et lbienn [Internatnal Meetgs on Gay and Lbian Culture] anized Paris by the Ge Pompidou Center 1997).
HOMOSEXUALS THE CY: REPRENTATNS OF LBIAN AND GAY SPACE NETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS
Do not this shortg arise – part – om the perpetuatn of the fluence of iologil rp which promote analys of balanc of power of another nature?2“What we should be askg ourselv is not about why gay and lbian cultur exist (…); but rather why they are ncealed,” the philosopher and soclogist Didier Eribon, a specialist on homosexual culture France, pertently remds (2003, 16).
It requir a knowledge, or even a practil experience of the terrori ncerned, an sight to the logic of those who nstct them and of the habs of those who equent them, difficult issu bee the anizatn and the dynamic of the spac of homosexualy are part visible, as we will monstrate.3Our ambn is limed spe as we only have at our disposal a certa number of ditors and a limed amount of quantative data, maly relatg to what is available mercially. In this report we would like to propose some elements of analysis of the way of life and spatiali of homosexual muni – by replacg the outdated qutn of “why” (homosexualy?), wh that of “how” (is lived?) takg a geographil approach, i.e.