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Queer Cities, Queer Cultures ii Queer Cities, Queer Cultures Europe Since 1945 Edited by Matt Cook and Jennifer V. Evans LONDON • NEW DELHI • NEW YORK • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 © Matt Cook, Jennifer V. Evans and Contributors, 2014 Matt Cook and Jennifer V. Evans has asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4411-4190-3 PB: 978-1-4411-5930-4 ePDF: 978-1-4411-4840-7 ePub: 978-1-4411-1166-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Queer cities, queer cultures: Europe since 1945/edited by Jennifer V. Evans, Matt Cook. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-4190-3 (hardback: alkaline paper) – ISBN 978-1-4411-5930-4 (paperback: alkaline paper) – ISBN 978-1-4411-4840-7 (epdf) – ISBN 978-1-4411-1166-1 (ePub) 1. Homosexuality–Europe–History. 2. Gays–Europe–History. 3. Gays–Europe–Social conditions. 4. Gays–Political activity–Europe–History. 5. Homophobia–Europe–History. I. Evans, Jennifer V., 1970- editor of compilation. II. Cook, Matt, editor of compilation. HQ76.3.E8Q415 2014 306.76’6094–dc23 2013048257 Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India This volume is dedicated with much love to Jason Bennett and Ben Tooke vi ContEntS Acknowledgements ix Contributors x Introduction 1 Matt Cook and Jennifer Evans Pasts 13 1 The queer margins of Spanish cities, 1939–2010 15 Richard Cleminson, Rosa María Medina Doménech and Isabel Vélez 2 Capital stories: Local lives in queer London 36 Matt Cook 3 The queer road to Frisind: Copenhagen 1945–2012 55 Peter Edelberg 4 Harmless kisses and infinite loops: Making space for queer place in twenty-first century Berlin 75 Jennifer Evans 5 From Stalinist pariahs to subjects of ‘Managed Democracy’: Queers in Moscow 1945 to the present 95 Dan Healey 6 Queer Amsterdam 1945–2010 118 Gert Hekma 7 Ljubljana: The tales from the queer margins of the city 135 Roman Kuhar viii ContEntS 8 Mapping/Unmapping: The making of queer Athens 151 Dimitris Papanikolaou 9 Istanbul: Queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop 171 Ralph J. Poole 10 Queering Budapest 191 Judit Takács 11 Two cities of Helsinki? One liberally gay and one practically queer? 211 Antu Sorainen 12 Paris: ‘Resting on its Laurels’? 240 Florence Tamagne Closing Reflections 261 13 ‘Gays Who Cannot Properly be Gay’. Queer Muslims in the neo-liberal European city 263 Fatima El-Tayeb 14 Seeing like a queer city 282 Tom Boellstorff Index 293 ACknowlEdgEmEntS We first conceived this book in 2008 as the first of a series of conversations made possible by the generous support of our home institutions. Birkbeck, University of London, supported Matt’s research trip to Berlin where Jen was conducting research of her own. Over the years that followed, Carleton University has funded numerous follow-up trips to London and Brighton, which allowed the conversation to deepen and continue. We have had the great good fortune of working with a wonderful group of contributors, who responded swiftly and with good humour at each request for information or revision. We owe them huge thanks for their patience, and for their fascinating insights into the queer worlds they bring to life in their chapters. Our editors at Continuum, Emma Goode and before her Rhodri Mogford and Michael Greenwood, have been a pleasure to work with throughout the entire process. Jane Freeland and Emmanuel Hogg at Carleton helped us in innumerable ways as we drew the final manuscript together. Thanks too to Grishma Fredric for shepherding it through the final process. Our partners and children Jason, Gwen, Gillian, Ben, Jaya and Chetan have, as ever, provided welcome diversion along the way. Writing is as much a personal as a communal affair. We have learnt so much from each other these last few years about collaboration, friendship and commitment to a common cause. It has been a rewarding experience on all levels.
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