Abstract
The paper draws on 21 qualitative interviews with Australian gay men from the cities of Melbourne and Sydney. The paper explores the motivations for the gay men to undertake their holidays, in particular the pursuit and/or experience of sex and the intersecting of travel, sex and social class in reinforcing binaries of exclusion/inclusion within gay male travel. It is suggested within the paper that sexual identity is a key motivator for some gay men in taking holidays. However, social class and socio‐economic income are found to be crucial in facilitating or denying the inclusion/exclusion of gay men from the tourist experience. In turn, the paper finds that homogeneous images of gay men as rich and highly mobile are problematic and false, and exclude many low‐income gay men who are unable to travel overseas.
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