Queer tercultural munitn offers the great promise to advance munitn-amilly, culturally, and polilly-not only for sexual and genr mory muni across the globe but for all muni as they grapple wh qutns of inty and difference an creasgly neoliberal and global social world (Yep et al., 2019, p. 2) the troductn to a special issue, "Out of Bounds? Queer Intercultural Communitn," published one of the journals of the Natnal Communitn Associatn 2013, Karma Chávez, the edor, acknowledged that there had been a arth of munitn studi explorg "the tersectns and terplays between the queer and the tercultural" (Chávez, 2013, p. 84). What domated the knowledge productn munitn is the prence of heteronormative studi that exame the liv and experienc of cisgenr people, margalizg other genr inti, lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr people, queer, tersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) (Eguchi & Asante, 2016). Although there have been studi on queer theory and other queer them and outsi the munitn field, the studi may have overlooked the tersectnaly of culture, sexualy, race, and class necsary for unrstandg munitn. Moreover, the studi may have maly been nducted the Global North, where Whe/Wtern iologi of homonormativy remaed the source and standard for queerns (Chávez, 2013;Eguchi & Asante, 201...
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Largely abandoned by middle-class gays, urban parks rema an important refuge for gay migrants an otherwise hostile cy. * gay migrants *
Around one hundred gay men — many of them migrant workers who lived nearby — were stg on the handrails of a rock bridge, lookg down at the artificial lake below; some had brought tradnal moonk and other snacks to share wh iends the moonlight.