Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space

Beverley Skeggs, Leslie Moran, Paul Tyrer and Jon Binnie
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Beverley Skeggs: Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, bev.skeggs@man.ac.uk
Leslie Moran: Department of Law, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK, L.moran@bbk.ac.uk
Paul Tyrer: Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK,
Jon Binnie: Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK, j.binreie@mmu.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2004, vol. 41, issue 9, 1839-1856

Abstract: This paper is about the construction of space and place in the urban imaginary. It draws on multidisciplinary empirical research—on Violence, Sexuality and Space—conducted in a place that was simultaneously represented in one of the most controversial programmes ever to be screened on British television— Queer as Folk. As the television programme intervened in the responses from the interviews and focus groups, we begin, through an exploration of spatial referents and characterisation, to explore the `authentic' underpinning for the queer imaginary. We examine the sexual politics of place and space as a politics of verisimilitude, affectivity and political claims-making.

Date: 2004
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