Urban Tourism and the De-gayg of Cape Town’s De Waterkant | SprgerLk

Contents:

• CAPE TOWN’S GAY VILLAGE: OM “GAYTRIFIED” TOURISM MEC TO “HETEROSEXUALISED” URBAN SPACE
• GAY VILLAGE - CAPE TOWN CENTRAL FOM
• GAY MEN, LEISURE SPACE AND SOUTH AIN CI: THE SE OF CAPE TOWN
• GAY VILLAGE CAPE TOWN
• URBAN TOURISM AND THE DE-GAYG OF CAPE TOWN’S DE WATERKANT
• GAY CAPE TOWN 2023
• TRAVELLER STUDIO #5 GROUND FLOOR (THE WATERKANT GAY VILLAGE)
• TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• GAYT PLAC IN FLORIDA FOR 2020
• NEW ENGLAND GAY WEEKEND GETAWAYS - BT WEEKEND TRIPS OM BOSTON

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

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. Empiril observatns of the six remag gay leisure space owners De Waterkant (populatn) are taken to acunt by g semi-stctured terviews.

GAY VILLAGE - CAPE TOWN CENTRAL FOM

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 may rult lost soc-enomic opportuni nsirg the fancial ntributn of gay travellers to the lol tourist enomy. 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. Takg to acunt the soc-enomic value add by gay tourism, the fdgs provi the first non-Wtern perspective on the mise of Ai’s and South Ai’s only gay neighbourhood om a gay leisure space owner perspective, cludg the possible repercsns on Cape Town’s lol tourist enomy.

GAY MEN, LEISURE SPACE AND SOUTH AIN CI: THE SE OF CAPE TOWN

(2020), "Cape Town’s gay village: om “gaytrified” tourism Mec to “heterosexualised” urban space", Internatnal Journal of Tourism Ci, Vol.

Please, there is only one Gay Village Cape Town and y is De Waterkant, except is not now that gay! Soho, which is part of the village lodge, actually provis very good Thai food, service n be patchy but is very gay iendly and certaly worth a vis. (02)00079-9Get rights and ntentAbstractIn rponse to the current pcy of geographil rearch to post-apartheid velopment of gay leisure space, the paper foc on the nature and extent of gay leisure space velopment De Waterkant, South Ai’s first “gay village”, loted the Cape Town CBD periphery.

Dpe a new liberal nstutnal environment, the gay spac generated post-apartheid De Waterkant are not clive of most gay South Ains.

GAY VILLAGE CAPE TOWN

As a nsequence, De Waterkant’s potential to functn as a se of inty formatn, velopment and re-affirmatn, seen many gay villag found other Wtern societi, appears unlikely. IntroductnDrawg on the South Ain experience, this exploratory vtigatn mak a ntributn towards addrsg the pcy of rearch on “gay geographi” the velopg world urban ntext. The paper vtigat the evolvg gay geographi of De Waterkant, Cape Town’s “gay village”, s subsequent impact on the urban form and possible role future gay inty formatn.

In dog so is monstrated that the materialy of apartheid imbalanc not only unrpned the generatn of an exclnary Whe gay male enclave De Waterkant but that this legacy perpetuat the historic excln of other gay persons: lbians, Black people and the poor alike. The vtigatn leads to the tentative ncln that spe the highly clive nstutnal environment of South Ai, historilly fed material imbalanc have generated a Whe homomascule terrory displayg limed potential for other gay inty formatn(s), affirmatn(s) and velopment(s) Cape Town’s gay village. This review suggts that lol rearch primarily al wh the historic symbolic aspects of gay inti highly circumscribed spac and not the more general spatial exprsn thereof.

URBAN TOURISM AND THE DE-GAYG OF CAPE TOWN’S DE WATERKANT

Consequently, the paper addrs this over-sight and velops broad them ncerng the typ of gay spac that have veloped De Waterkant.

The send and third sectns explore the historil and ntemporary velopment of De Waterkant as gay enclave, particular highlightg the racial, class and genr specificy of this space. The ncludg part nsirs the observatns on a broar nvas, suggtg that Cape Town’s gay village do not provi a space for muny and terrory for “gay people” but ultimately only wel the empowered Whe gay play-boy, whilst at the same stroke magalizg the already disempowered of Cape Town. Sectn snippetsA ntext for thkg through gay leisure space velopment South AiCi, particularly ner-cy areas, are creasgly marketg themselv as plac of leisure nsumptn (Harvey, 1989).

In theCape Town’s gay male leisure spac: a brief historil sketchProcs of urbanisatn South Ai, such as the mg sh that created Johannburg and chang the natnal enomy om an agricultural to dtrial base, drew people om the ral areas the 1920s and 1930s to the three major ci of Cape Town, Johannburg and Durban.

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For those that were gay, this tonomy meant theIn the begng De Waterkant was…De Waterkant, an historil area of 0. De Waterkant was home to a racially mixed muny before beg clared a Whe group area, wh the neighbourhood’s non-WheDe Waterkant: South Ai’s first gay villageThe promulgatn of the new South Ain nstutn 1996 was the startg pot for a sea-change the visibily and nfince of gay civil society.

Wh the advent of post-apartheid South Ai, activists moved quickly to take advantage of provisns the nstutn that guarantee gays’ equaly before the law.

TRAVELLER STUDIO #5 GROUND FLOOR (THE WATERKANT GAY VILLAGE)

Whilst Cape Town’s largt populatn group is Coloured (50 percent) and 25 percent Black (Ain), the spac are the ma not patronised by eher Black nor Coloured gay men those proportns, neher by lbians any particular force (Foc groups A, B, C and D). (1998) argue that public gay space provis an open challenge to the heterosexual nature of the street whilst providg homosexuals wh an arena which heterosexism n be risted.

TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

In the se of Cape Town, such stggl were evince, though never on any large sle, durg the time that the ma gay leisure facili were loted areas where they were close proximy to straight leisure spac the CBD.

In part this led to the velopment of a gay leisureAcknowledgementsThanks are due to the Universy of the Wwatersrand for fundg a post-doctoral fellowship enablg the broar rearch project on which the paper draws; Chris Rogerson, Charlie Mather, both at Ws; Jenny Robson at Open; Glen Elr at Vermont for their enuragement; those people who were willg to participate the terviews; as well as Andrew Leyshon at Nottgham and three anonymo refere for very helpful suggtns––the ual disclaimers apply. KnoppSome theoretil implitns of gay volvement an urban and marketPolil Geography Quarterly(1990)P.

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Reachg out to the gay tourist: opportuni and threat an emergg market segmentTourism Management(1998)N. ElrOf Moffi, Kaffirs and Perverts: male homosexualy and the disurse of moral orr the apartheid stateElr, G., 2002.

GevisserA different fight for eedom: a history of South Ain lbian and gay anisatns––the 1950s to the 1990sD.

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HarveyThe Condn of Postmorny(1989)Ced by (79)Peril, privilege, and queer forts: The nocturnal performative geographi of expatriate gay men Dubai2021, GeofomYet growg cril rearch shows how unacceptg queer nightlife spac n be terms of race, class, and other tersectnal equali. The post-apartheid ntext South Ai has yield important terventns examg the tense Whens of many ostensibly clive gay nightlife venu (Osw, 2005, 2007; Tucker, 2009; Visser, 2003, 2008), and the velopment of pro-Black and other alternative LGBT+ spac rponse to the exclns (Davids and Matebeni, 2017; Livermon, 2014; Tucker, 2011). More than portrayg how Black queer spac Soweto are distct om Whe-majory gay nightlife elsewhere South Ai, Livermon (2014) reveals the ccial sights of performativy the trite choreography through which the settgs materialize:“They treat like we're not there”: Queer bodi and the social productn of healthre spac2017, Health and PlaceThere is signifint lerature monstratg the terperabily of inty and space, how “sexual polics permeate all space – private and public, urban and ral, at the macro and micro level” (Johnston, 2015: 808).

As Maliepaard (2015) pots out, other thors have criqued this lerature as often portrayg queer spac as static and homogeno – ristive spac habed by queers whout the fluenc of heteronormativy or straight people (Osw, 2008; Browne and Bakshi, 2011) all cg articl on SpRemend articl (6)View full textCopyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd.

I do this through discsg the privilege necsary to "e out" Cape Town and, subsequently, have accs to The Pk Village, Cape Town's gay district.

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By Brgg theory on "g out" as a whe experience and the queer movement as re-centerg whe normativy, I work to openly discs how a history of excln has lived on Cape Town's gay district and phed the more margalized gay muni out of the cy center. Through amic rearch, participant observatn both the gay village and the townships, and five rmal terviews wh South Ains who intify as LGBTQI, I work to reveal how queer spac are both plac of cln and excln on the basis of race, relign, genr inty, etc.