Queerburbia

<p>To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism <i>Queerburbia</i> examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada’s three largest city-regions (Vancouver Toronto and Montreal) investigating print media and census representations civic and para-public allyship individual and collective activism and everyday practices of living and dreaming as revealed through photo-elicitation interviews and collective counter-mapping that together unmake and remake suburban places as queer.</p><p><i>Queerburbia </i>offers a comparative case study of how large Canadian city-regions become queerer through LGBTQ2S suburban place-making/unmaking/remaking. For urban scholars it deepens place-making theory with the conceptual introduction of the neologism “queerburbia” as a means to re-envision metropolitan peripheries as sites of queer futures. Practically it offers civic leaders urban planners and policymakers insights into the complex dynamics of municipal LGBTQ2S misrecognition and critical allyship strategies beyond rainbowization. Methodologically innovative this book combines print media census and municipal policy analysis with expert and photo-elicitation interviews counter-mapping focus groups and ethnographic fieldwork. It reveals the multiple layers of queerburban place-making/unmaking/remaking demonstrating how statistical and media representations municipal services and social inclusion policies para-public and activist resistance and organizing and individual living and dreaming emplace sexual and gender minorities in suburbia. </p><p>An interdisciplinary book at the interstices of Geography Urban Studies Suburban Studies Urban Planning and LGBTQ+ Studies its intended audiences are scholars of cities queer theory and sexual and gender minority life extending to Women’s and Gender Studies Cultural Studies Sociology Anthropology and Psychology. It targets upper-level undergraduates graduate students researchers and practitioners of municipal social inclusion including civic leaders urban policymakers and urban planners. </p>