"Where u from, who u wit?!" Black Pride Festivals as Itinerant Hospitality.
This article examines the phenomenon of Black Pride festivals. Initially intended as a form of community building during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s in select cities, Black Pride is both a celebration of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender + (LGBT+) life and a space for political orga...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 54; no. 2-3; pp. 395 - 415 |
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Black Pride Festivals as Itinerant Hospitality. aug: au: SMITH, CHRISTOPHER G. affil: Research associate at the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto su: AIDS LGBTQ+ people Black lesbians Gay people Bisexual people Transgender people sug: subj: AIDS LGBTQ+ people Black lesbians Gay people Bisexual people Transgender people keyword: études queers black diaspora diaspora noire géographie sociale et culturelle LGBT politics politiques LGBT queer studies social and cultural geography tourism tourisme études queers diaspora noire géographie sociale et culturelle politiques LGBT tourisme ab: This article examines the phenomenon of Black Pride festivals. Initially intended as a form of community building during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s in select cities, Black Pride is both a celebration of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender + (LGBT+) life and a space for political organizing. The model of Black Pride would be adopted throughout the United States and, internationally, in the United Kingdom and South Africa. While there are no "official" Black Pride festivals in Canada, there is a long-standing history of diasporic travel by Black LGBT+ Torontonians that have sought out these festivals as a site of affirmation of their identities and experiences. Blockorama, a one-day cultural festival that celebrates Black LGBT+ individuals during the Pride Toronto festivities, shares a similar history. Now in its twenty-first year, the story of Blockorama illustrates the challenges of visibility and recognition faced by Black LGBT+ communities within broader LGBT+ communities. As a snapshot from my current ethnographic and archival research on Black Pride, this analysis takes the form of a transnational comparison of the structural and political challenges faced by organizers of these events. Of particular concern is the confluence of anti-Black racism and the homonormative political priorities LGBT+ leaders that have shaped "mainstream" Pride festivals, rendering them increasingly corporate driven. Thus, this article specifically attends to the relationship between the spatial regulation and surveillance of Black LGBT+ bodies when moments of celebration are enacted in spaces that are seen as being "out of place." Conceptually, these moments of disruption are understood as an "itinerant hospitality" that engenders spaces of conviviality between Black LGBT+ communities and the individuals who cultivate their identities often in transit. Cet article examine le phénomène de festivals de fierté noire. Initialement conçus pour bâtir les communautés lors de la crise du VIH\SIDA des années 1990 dans certaines villes, les festivals de fierté noire sont tant une célébration de la vie des personnes noires lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles et transgendre + (LGBT+) qu'un espace d'organisation politique. Le modèle de la fierté noire serait adopté, partout aux États-Unis et, à l'international, au Royaume-Uni et en Afrique du Sud. Bien qu'il n'y ait pas de festival fierté noire «officiel » au Canada, il y a une longue histoire de déplacements diasporiques par les Torontois noirs LGBT+, lesquels ont cherché ces festivals en tant que site d'affirmation de leur identité et de leur expérience. Blockorama, un festival culturel d'une journée qui célèbre les personnes noires LGBT+ durant les festivités de la fierté gaie de Toronto, a une histoire similaire. Célébrant maintenant sa 21e année, l'histoire de Blockorama illustre les défis de visibilité et de reconnaissance rencontrés par les communautés noires LGBT+ au sein des communautés LGBT+ au sens large. En tant que cliché de mes recherches ethnographiques et archivistiques actuelles sur la fierté noire, cette analyse prend la forme d'un comparatif transnational des défis structurels et politiques auxquels les organisateurs de ces événements font face. Plus particulièrement, la confluence du racisme anti-noir et des priorités politiques homonormatives des leaders LGBT+ qui ont façonné des festivals de fierté «courants », les rendant ainsi de plus en plus poussés par des aspects corporatifs. Ainsi, cet article met surtout l'accent sur la relation entre les règlements spatiaux et la surveillance des corps noirs LGBT+ lorsque des moments de célébration ont lieu dans des espaces qui sont perçus comme étant «déplacés ». Conceptuellement, ces moments de dérangement sont compris comme étant une «hospitalité itinérante » qui engendre des espaces de convivialité entre les communautés noires LGBT+ et les personnes qui cultivent souvent leur identité en transit. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Canadian Studies is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Canadian Studies holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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