Abstract
* Foreword (Mike Crang) * Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Tourism * Introduction * Tourism in the Age of Mobility * Establishing Our Theoretical Framework * Approaching the Topic--Becoming Personal * The Structure of the Book * Chapter 2. Charting the Emergence of Tourism * Introduction * Scripting and Circulating Ideas About Homosexual Destinations in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries * The Emergence of City and Resort Destinations, 1920-1969 * Out and About: Bringing Tourism Out of the Closet, 1969 to Present * Conclusion * Chapter 3. Selling Paradise: Spatial and Social Discourse of Tourism Travelogues * Travel, Texts, and Representations of Paradise * Clarification on Method * Mapping Destinations and Scripting Sexuality * Paradise of Australia: Imagining Australia As Macho-opolis * Paradise of the Russian Federation and Central Europe: Imagining Russia and Central Europe As Twink-opolis * Paradise of Hawai'i: Imagining Hawai'i As a Place of True Romantic Homosexual Love * Paradise of Myknonos: Imagining Myknonos As Euro-Gay Cluboplois * Sexual Utopias and Cultures of Travel * Chapter 4. Touring the Heterosexual Nation * Introducing Tourism and National Closets: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Sexuality * Nations and Nationalism: Performing an Imagined Heteronormative Community * Marketing Nations As Tourism Destinations: Reestablishing or Challenging the Imagined Heterosexual Family Nation? * Arabian State Encounters with Tourism * Caribbean Encounters with Tourism * Tourism and Closeting of the Nation * Chapter 5. Touring the Sexualized City * Selling, Mapping, and Touring the City As Villages * Selling Gay-Friendly Cities Through Inventing Bounded Villages * Selling Sexualized City Spaces: Villages As Spaces of Constructed Visibility * Nongay Narratives of Resistance to Pitching, Bounding, and Mapping City Spaces As Gay * Cities Through the Body: (Re)Sexualizing the Body Through City Spaces * Queer Narrative of Resistance to Bounding City Space: Marking Out the Unwanted * Selling to Nongay Tourists: The Straight Eye for Bent Attractions * Implications of Nongay Tourists in the Village * Conclusion * Chapter 6. Special Events and Festivals * Celebration!--Come On, Let's Celebrate * Sexuality and the City--Relax, When You Want to Come: Place Making Through Event Tourism * Where's the Party?--Spin Me Right Round, Round, Round * Why Party?--Make Me Feel Mighty Real: The Significance of Special Events for Tourism and Cultures * Embodying Pride Through Marching--I Am What I Am * Playing the Field--What's the Name of the Game? * A Day Out--Just a Perfect Day * Dancing the Circuit--Get Into the Groove * Conclusion--Everybody Needs Time to Celebrate * Chapter 7. Conclusions * Tourism and the Constitution of Modern Identities * Evolutionary Narratives of Tourism * Internationalization of Identities * Intersections with Social Difference * Tourist Destinations Through the Body * Return to Oz * Bibliography * Publications * Videography * Index * Reference Notes Included
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