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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781529228588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (173 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.7609421
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    Keywords: Sociology ; Sexual minority activists
    Abstract: Tracing the extensive LGBTQ+ venue closures in the 2010s, this book explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on rich ethnographic work with activists, professionals and businesses, it reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises.
    Abstract: Front Cover -- Series -- The Gentrification of Queer Activism: Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What this book is about -- The promise of inclusion -- The gender/sexual politics of neoliberalism -- A queer political economy of inclusion -- The gentrification of queerness -- Into the multi-sited field -- The chapters to follow -- 1 Between Corporate Diversity and the Closure of Queer Spaces -- Corporate investments in diversity -- Pinkwashing and capitalist crisis -- Regeneration and the neoliberalization of urban planning -- The Joiners Arms and the closure of queer spaces -- Diversity politics: cultural recognition or economic redistribution? -- 2 Coming Out for Business -- The productive value of authenticity -- Homonormativity and the cult of queer ordinariness -- Lesbians Who Tech -- The politics of extraordinary homonormativity -- Lesbian tech CEOs as queer role models -- The CEO-ization of queer activism -- 3 Diversity Work and Queer Value -- Queer value in the LGBTQ-friendly corporation -- Putting diversity to work -- Day jobs and gay jobs -- Failed laboured performances of diversity -- Queer failure -- The queer value of diversity work -- 4 The Straightening Tendencies of Inclusion -- A sufficiently gay replacement venue -- Wholehearted massive queerness -- Early to bed, early to rise -- A Trojan Horse draped in a rainbow flag -- Inclusion as a straightening device -- The class politics of inclusion -- 5 As Soon as this Pub Closes -- The happy futures of gentrification -- Keeping up with planning -- Long live queer spaces -- Friendship and nostalgia -- Queer utopias -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 2
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    Bristol, England :Bristol University Press,
    ISBN: 1-5292-2859-X , 1-5292-2858-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: First edition.
    Series Statement: Sociology of diversity series
    Series Statement: Sociology of diversity.
    DDC: 306.76609421
    Keywords: Sexual minority activists ; Sexual minorities Social conditions.
    Abstract: Tracing the extensive LGBTQ+ venue closures in the 2010s, this book explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on rich ethnographic work with activists, professionals and businesses, it reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2024). , Front Matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction -- , Between Corporate Diversity and the Closure of Queer Spaces: The Neoliberal Politics of Inclusion in East London -- , Coming Out for Business: Lesbian Tech CEOs and the CEO-ization of Queer Politics -- , Diversity Work and Queer Value: Putting Queer Differences to Work in the LGBTQ-friendly Corporation -- , The Straightening Tendencies of Inclusion: The Friends of the Joiners Arms and the Normativities of Gentrification -- , As Soon as this Pub Closes: The Temporalities of Gentrification and Other Queer Utopias -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.
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    ISBN: 9781529228595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages).
    Series Statement: Sociology of diversity
    Series Statement: Policy Press scholarship online
    Series Statement: Sociology of diversity.
    Series Statement: Policy Press scholarship online.
    Parallel Title: Print version :
    DDC: 306.7609421
    Keywords: Sexual minorities Social conditions. ; Sexual minority activists ; Family and Relationships. ; Society & culture: general.
    Abstract: Tracing the extensive LGBTQ+ venue closures in the 2010s, this book explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on rich ethnographic work with activists, professionals and businesses, it reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2023.
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