Relocating queer: Comparing suburban LGBTQ2S activisms on Vancouver’s periphery

Alison L Bain and Julie A Podmore
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Alison L Bain: York University, Canada
Julie A Podmore: John Abbott College, Canada

Urban Studies, 2021, vol. 58, issue 7, 1500-1519

Abstract: Scholarly understandings of LGBTQ2S activist geographies are largely informed by a metronormative analytical lens that inadequately captures the shifting landscapes of sexual diversity in Canadian city-regions. The gap between the available services in peripheral municipalities and the rising demand from their growing LGBTQ2S populations has mobilised fractured groups of activists to lobby for policy, programming and service changes. This paper examines sexual politics in suburban civil society, focusing on the grassroots organising of not-for-profit activist groups as they interact with local government outside of the electoral process. It compares LGBTQ2S activist practices in two neighbouring, although differently sized and demographically divergent, peripheral municipalities in the Vancouver city-region: Surrey and New Westminster. A comparative case study approach reveals how LGBTQ2S activists work through variations in suburban political opportunity structures, resource landscapes and inter-organisational relations resulting in differential practices of mobilisation and collective action. In contrast with an urban legacy of insurgent practices of LGBTQ2S resistance, suburban LGBTQ2S activisms primarily centre on enactments of local resourcefulness, community resilience and institutional reworking within more dispersed resource landscapes.

Keywords: activisms; LGBTQ2S; metronormativity; metropolitan periphery suburbs; 行动主义; ç”·å¥³å Œæ€§æ ‹; å Œæ€§æ ‹; å ˜æ€§è€…; é…·å„¿å’Œå Œç µäºº (LGBTQ2S); 都市规范; 大都市周边郊区 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098020931282

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