Reverg the Gay Village: A Comparative Historil Geography of Urban Change and Planng Toronto and Sydney | SprgerLk

Contents:

• GAY VILLAGE WALKG TOUR - PLADWELLERS
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• SYDNEY: GAY VILLAGE
• DISVER THE 8 GAY VILLAG OM AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• REVERG THE GAY VILLAGE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORIL GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN CHANGE AND PLANNG TORONTO AND SYDNEY

GAY VILLAGE WALKG TOUR - PLADWELLERS

There are a range of LGBTQ areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg LGBTQ bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants. Today, even though you n fd LGBTQ hotspots throughout the cy, Oxford Street remas a major hub for LGBTQI+ activy and hosts Sydney’s famo Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, ually held every March on Oxford Street.

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THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

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SYDNEY: GAY VILLAGE

In the heart of Shju ward Tokyo, between morn skyscrapers and dazzlg neon-l billboards, his one of Asia’s most vibrant gay villag. Ni-chome was the lotn of Japan’s first gay pri para 1994, and is where the untry’s first permanent LGBTQ+ center opened 2020. Known as “Le Village Gai” French, the muny had to overe s of opprsn before beg one of the most well-known gayborhoods the world.

DISVER THE 8 GAY VILLAG OM AROUND THE WORLD

In classic Montreal fashn, two gay villag technilly exist Montreal: an English one loted near downtown, and a French one on Sat Lrent Boulevard. Gay nightclubs and other venu flourished durg the Weimar Republic, before almost all of them were shut down when the Nazis seized power 1933. Much of the gay life the neighborhood is centered around Motzstrasse, a street that go right through the center of Schoneberg.

1 IntroductnIn this chapter, we exame the historil geographi of the now inic gay villag Toronto’s Church and Wellley Street district and Sydney’s Oxford Street. In dog so, we ntribute to the ongog bat about the nature, characteristics, and implitns of the shiftg fortun of some tradnal gay villag the Global beg by discsg geographil scholarship on the emergence of gay villag the Global North wh an emphasis on ntemporary lerature tailg the perceived “cle” of some longstandg gay villag, cludg those Toronto and Sydney. We then prent the distctive historil geographi unrpng the emergence of each cy’s gay neighborhoods the post-World War II perd, discsg nvergenc and divergenc.

Throughout, the acronym LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans) refers to inti grouped together to reflect llective terts and muny as genred and sexual mori, while queer not a ntemporary moment when some dividuals reject a genred and sexual specificy but still posn themselv wh non-normative genr and sexual unrstandgs—a posng reflected recent urban chang.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

2 Historil Geographi of Gay Villag: Segregatn and IntegratnA substantial body of scholarship exam the emergence and velopment of gay villag the Global North the perd followg World War II.

REVERG THE GAY VILLAGE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORIL GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN CHANGE AND PLANNG TORONTO AND SYDNEY

This rearch highlights the domant role that gay men (maly whe and middle-class) played the velopment and growth of gay villag, ially through their appropriatn of plac for safety and support to their e of the neighborhoods for polil, social, and enomic secury and activism (Castells 1983; Chncey 1994; Doan and Higgs 2011; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Knopp 1990; Lewis 2012; Nash 2006). Simultaneoly, lbians and queer women also habed urban lotns and neighborhoods and utilized gay village spac, albe distctive and ls visible ways (Adler and Brenner 1992; Nast 2002; Podmore 2001, 2013; Rothenberg 1995; Valente 1993, 1996).

The HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s helped cement villag as hubs of LGBT life, and plac such as Toronto and Sydney they provid re servic cludg hospice re, outreach, health tn, and unselg servic (Ksman 1996; Warner 2002; Willett 2000a; Wotherspoon 1991) the 1980s, gay villag were creasgly ught up broar urban social and enomic procs that saw them rporated, through the neoliberal policy iativ of the entreprenrial cy, to creasgly modified and nsumable urban landsp (Bell and Bnie 2002; Bnie 2000; Bnie and Skeggs 2004; Visser 2008). This amg of a “homonormative polic” has prompted some to argue that we nnot unrstand this to be a universal or monolhic rult and that we need to attend to the “difference, unevenns and geographil specificy” of genred and sexual relatns the gay village and beyond (Brown 2009: 1498) recent scholarship suggts, ntemporary gay villag, cludg those Toronto and Sydney, are experiencg forms of “gayg” wh broar polil, social, and enomic procs at work many Global North ci (Colls 2004; Rutg 2008; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Nash 2013a; Visser 2013).

Part of this procs is the modifitn of gay villag as tourist venu, as well as shoppg and entertament districts, which has attracted a wi variety of nsumers and bs not necsarily intifyg as LGBT. In both Canada and Atralia, legislative and social regnn of LGBT people has rulted their creasg visibily a broad range of lotns beyond the gay village plac unrstood to be “gay iendly. ” While many argue this new visibily is only available to certa normatively genred and sexualized gays and lbians, others suggt the spatial chang reflect greater acceptance of sexual and genred difference, as well as a growg social hn across a wi variety of neighborhoods (Ghaziani 2021; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Nash 2013a; Visser 2013).