Building Back Queerer? Mainstreaming, Commodification, and Intersectional Inequalities in London's Queer Nightlife Post-COVID-19.
Queer nightlife occupies a contradictory position of operating in the spheres of mainstreaming and marginality simultaneously, alongside broader challenges of gentrification, technological innovation, and major shocks such as COVID-19. Yet, mainstreaming is a nebulous concept, and its role and impac...
| Publicado en: | Sociological Quarterly Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 700 - 724 |
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