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Chapter 1: Introduction -- SECTION I: MAKING WORLDS -- Chapter 2: The queer times of internet infrastructure and digital systems -- Chapter 3: Queer mobilities and new spatial media -- Chapter 4: Travel, Tinder and Gender in Digitally-Mediated Tourism Encounters -- Chapter 5: 'I get my lovin' on the run': Digital nomads, constant travel, and nurturing romantic relationships -- SECTION II: DATING AND INTIMACY AT THE INTERFACE -- Chapter 6: "There's no one new around you": Queer women's experiences of scarcity in geospatial partner-seeking on Tinder -- Chapter 7: Going the distance: Locative dating technology and queer male practice-based identities -- Chapter 8: Online dating practice as a perfect example of interwoven worlds? Analysis of communication in digital and physical encounters -- Chapter 9: 'I didn't think you were going to sound like that': sensory geographies of Grindr encounters in public spaces in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK -- SECTION III: ACTIVISM, POLITICS AND COMMUNITIES -- Chapter 10: Disrupting sexism and sexualities online? Gender, activism and digital spaces -- Chapter 11: 'I want my story to be heard…': Examining the Production of Digital Stories by Queer Youth in East and South-East Asia -- Chapter 12: 'Does Your Mother Know? Digital v. Material Spaces of Queer Encounter in Singapore' -- Chapter 13: Queerying Public Art in Digitally Networked Space: The Rise and Fall of an Inflatable Butt Plug

AbstractIn this article we apply insights from 'new mobilities' approaches to understand the shifting sexual and gendered landscapes of major cities in the global North. The empirical context is the purported 'demise' of traditional gay villages in Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia, and the emergence of 'LGBT neighbourhoods' elsewhere in the inner city. We reinterpret the historical geography of twentieth century LGBT lives and the associated 'rise and fall' of gay enclaves through the lens of the 'politics of mobility'. In this reading, it is apparent that multifaceted movements — migration, physical and social mobility, and motility — underpin the formation of gay enclaves and recent transformations in sexual and gendered landscapes. After the second world war, LGBT communities in the global North were embedded in specific historical geographies of mobility and we trace these in the Canadian and Australian contexts. The 'great gay migration' from the 1960s to the 1980s has been joined by new LGBT constellations of mobility in the 2000s, and these have imprinted upon the sexual and gendered landscapes of Toronto and Sydney.

This chapter argues that the historical geographies of Toronto's Church and Wellesley Street district and Sydney's Oxford Street gay villages are important in understanding ongoing contemporary transformations in both locations. LGBT and queer communities as well as mainstream interests argue that these gay villages are in some form of "decline" for various social, political, and economic reasons. Given their similar histories and geographies, our analysis considers howthese historical geographies have both enabled and constrained how the respective gay villages respond to these challenges, opening up and closing down particular possibilities for alternative (and relational) geographies. While there are a number of ways to consider these historical geographies, we focus on three factors for analysis: post- World War II planning policies, the emergence of "city of neighborhoods" discourses, and the positioning of gay villages within neoliberal processes of commodification and consumerism. We conclude that these distinctive historical geographies offer a cogent set of understandings by providing suggestive explanations for how Toronto's and Sydney's gendered and sexual landscapes are being reorganized in distinctive ways, and offer some wider implications for urban planning and policy.

This paper develops our geographical understanding of the gendered politics of (im)mobility by exploring the hidden politics of waiting experienced by some mobile working households. Reflecting on qualitative fieldwork with female partners of mobile workers in Australia who remain at home, we explain how 'stuckness' is a specific form of waiting that highlights a power-geometry where their immobility is exacerbated by the mobility of their partner. Its key contribution is to spotlight an overlooked durational aspect to immobility which supplements a previous focus on spatial immobility. Taking the self-governing activity of emotion management as our point of departure, we draw on qualitative interviews to highlight the multiple ways that our female participants become focused on short-term processes of getting by, leaving them stuck in the present. A more extensive immersion into the lifeworld of one woman through a photo diary and subsequent interview draws attention to the more passive, insidiously listless dimensions of stuckness which can compromise wellbeing for mobile worker partners.