Spaces of Pride

A Visual Ethnography of Gay Pride Parades in Italy and the United Kingdom

Bibliographic Data

ID6220256
AuthorsF R Ammaturo (0000-0002-8747-5652, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue1
Pages19-40
Publication date2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742837.2015.1060156
OpenAlexW2199119864
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited23

Gay pride parades represent an active site of production of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), intersexual and queer identities, featuring a spatial and social articulation of political and human rights claims. While the multiplication of these events in different countries suggests the existence of a coherent and cohesive community which shares the same collective identity beyond national borders, different patterns in the organisation, part-taking and social and political connotations given to these events can be observed in different contexts. By means of a comparative visual ethnography of Italian and British Gay Pride Parades, this article investigates how the creation, mobilisation and challenge of quasi-normative LGBT identities occur within the spatial context of gay pride marches. It is argued, in particular, that while gay pride parades are sites in which the socio-political status quo can be successfully challenged, participants are also faced with the possibility of falling prey to dynamics of identity commodification and homonationalism which may ultimately deprive their claims of their subversive potential

Aesthetics · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Lesbian · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Pride · Queer · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Public Spaces through Art · Social and Cultural Dynamics