Table of Contents

• Foreword (Mike Crang)
  
• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Gay Tourism
  
• Introduction
  
• Gay Tourism in the Age of Mobility
  
• Establishing Our Theoretical Framework
  
• Approaching the TopicBecoming Personal
  
• The Structure of the Book
  
• Chapter 2. Charting the Emergence of Gay 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 Gay Tourism Out of the Closet, 1969 to Present
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 3. Selling Gay Paradise: Spatial and Social Discourse of Gay Tourism Travelogues
  
• Travel, Texts, and Representations of Gay Paradise
  
• Clarification on Method
  
• Mapping Gay 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 Gay Myknonos: Imagining Myknonos As Euro-Gay Cluboplois
  
• Gay Sexual Utopias and Cultures of Gay Travel
  
• Chapter 4. Touring the Heterosexual Nation
  
• Introducing Gay Tourism and National Closets: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Sexuality
  
• Nations and Nationalism: Performing an Imagined Heteronormative Community
  
• Marketing Nations As Gay-Friendly Tourism Destinations: Reestablishing or Challenging the Imagined Heterosexual Family Nation?
  
• Arabian State Encounters with Gay Tourism
  
• Caribbean Encounters with Gay Tourism
  
• Gay Tourism and Closeting of the Nation
  
• Chapter 5. Touring the Sexualized City
  
• Selling, Mapping, and Touring the City As Gay Villages
  
• Selling Gay-Friendly Cities Through Inventing Bounded Gay Villages
  
• Selling Sexualized City Spaces: Gay 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 Gay City Spaces
  
• Queer Narrative of Resistance to Bounding Gay City Space: Marking Out the Gay Unwanted
  
• Selling Gay to Nongay Tourists: The Straight Eye for Bent Attractions
  
• Implications of Nongay Tourists in the Gay Village
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 6. Special Events and Festivals
  
• Celebration!Come On, Let’s Celebrate
  
• Sexuality and the CityRelax, When You Want to Come: Gay 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 Gay Tourism and Gay Cultures
  
• Embodying Pride Through MarchingI Am What I Am
  
• Playing the FieldWhat’s the Name of the Game?
  
• A Gay Day OutJust a Perfect Day
  
• Dancing the CircuitGet Into the Groove
  
• ConclusionEverybody Needs Time to Celebrate
  
• Chapter 7. Conclusions
  
• Gay Tourism and the Constitution of Modern Gay Identities
  
• Evolutionary Narratives of Gay Tourism
  
• Internationalization of Gay Identities
  
• Intersections with Social Difference
  
• Gay Tourist Destinations Through the Body
  
• Return to Oz
  
• Bibliography
  
• Publications
  
• Videography
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

About the Author

Kevin Markwell, Gordon Waitt