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Boundaries of Desire: Becoming Sexual Through the Spaces of Sydney's 2002 Gay Games

2006; American Association of Geographers; Volume: 96; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00811.x

1467-8306

Gordon Waitt,

Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Abstract What are the consequences of unbounded gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (GLQBTI) spaces that are positioned as inclusive through welcoming everyone? Two festival spaces of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games, the City Hub and Oxford Street, illustrate inclusivity within nonheterosexualized space. Adopting a poststructuralist feminist approach, I examine experiences of male desires. The spatial metaphor of a “GLQBTI borderland” provides a conceptual lens through which to rethink the relationship among desire, boundaries, imagined space, and sexualities. The uncertainties of GLQBTI borderlands indicate it might be possible to revisit the queer political agenda by acknowledging that sexual identities are actively and spatially produced through processes that simultaneously draw from and defy social borders.