Beyond the Mounta: Queer Life "Ai’s Gay Capal" - 1st Ed

Contents:

• A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN
• GAY TRAVEL SOUTH AI
• QUEER LIFE AI'S GAY PAL
• CAPE TOWN’S GAY VILLAGE: OM “GAYTRIFIED” TOURISM MEC TO “HETEROSEXUALISED” URBAN SPACE
• MOVG BEYOND THE GAY METROPOLIS: LSONS LEARNED OM STELLENBOSCH

A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN

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GAY TRAVEL SOUTH AI

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QUEER LIFE AI'S GAY PAL

And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state Poland, one of Europe’s most Catholic and nservative untri, voters the small cy of Slupsk this year elected a gay atheist mayor, Robert Biedron.

CAPE TOWN’S GAY VILLAGE: OM “GAYTRIFIED” TOURISM MEC TO “HETEROSEXUALISED” URBAN SPACE

Jt a few years ago, Biedron was attacked on the streets of his cy bee of his Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunil Pant beme Asia’s first openly gay feral-level elected official 2008, rultg a spate of public scty. Bra's The Guardian newspaper lled 'one of the 10 most popular gay travel statns the world', while the US publitn Out and About named a 'world-wi favoure'. Built alongsi the archectural masterpiece of the Zez Mm of Contemporary Art Ai, this gay-iendly hotel Cape Town offers over 200 distctively dividual su, sunrise yoga ssns, a roof-top food tck, and superb views of Table Mounta.

Sophistited, stylish, and boastg magnificent Table Mounta and mara views, this gay-iendly acmodatn offers LGBTQ+ travellers a taste of luxury livg at the ‘hottt addrs Cape Town’.

MOVG BEYOND THE GAY METROPOLIS: LSONS LEARNED OM STELLENBOSCH

Wh effortls elegance, unrstated luxury, personal touch and clockwork efficiency, the gay-iendly hotels Frnaye and Bantry Bay offer low-profile hiaways that are perfect for discreet vatns. Filled wh old-world charm and quirky touch like retro telephon which n be ed to orr drks or have a chat wh people at other tabl, Alexanr is one of the most popular gay bars Cape Town.

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Queer bodi do not sell the cy; they shape , as they always have, tersectg wh relatns of power and refal, transactnal existence, ()visibily, creative subcultural mos of survival, overtly antagonistic to the ntued spatial sanisatn of the cy as a cisgenr whe gay tourist statn, and they ve you, ar rear, to e along for the ri. Eded by B Cammga (they/them) and z Matebeni, the book ntribut to the body of knowledge on the lived experienc of lbian gay bisexual trans-sexual, queer and ter-sex (LGBTQI) muni Cape Town. Beyond the mounta: Queer life Ai’s gay pal is a llectn nsistg of narrativ of lived experienc and amic discsns prented by both novice and experienced scholars.

The purpose of this paper is to ascerta the factors that led to Cape Town’s gay village to transform om a “gaytrified” tourism mec to a “heterosexualised” urban space, om a gay leisure space owner perspective. All narrativ are analysed – qualative data analysis software – to intify applible factors, which participants believe are ntributg to the “-gayg” of Cape Town’s gay village. From the nducted analys, be apparent that Wtern theorisatn of the “-gayg” of gay villag is not universally applible as certa factors ntributg to De Waterkant’s mise appear to be lotn-specific, suggtg that Wtern theory is sufficient to expla gay spatial reali non-Wtern ntexts such as South Ai.

The intified factors rponsible for the “-gayg” of De Waterkant adversely affect Cape Town’s stat as a gay pal and s abily to market this gay neighbourhood to attract the gay tourism market. This study is the first of s kd to e first-hand narrativ of the six remag gay bs owners De Waterkant and marks the first attempt to vtigate the factors, om a non-Wtern perspective, which led to the “-gayg” of Ai’s only gay village.