Queer Space, Pride, and Shame in Moscow

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4207801
AutoresFrancesca Stella (0000-0003-2384-0435, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume72
Fascículo3
Páginas458-480
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5612/slavicreview.72.3.0458
OpenAlexW6641154
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas37

In this article, Francesca Stella examines the notion of Moscow as a global city through the prism of cultural diversity and cosmopolitanism by exploring articulations of queer space in the Russian capital. Two types of queer space are explored: the "scene," understood as a loose cluster of commercial venues and community organizations catering to an LGBT clientele, and Moscow Pride, a temporary but also highly visible and politicized appropriation of urban space by the LGBT community. The analysis of Moscow Pride as a putative cosmopolitan object is framed within a broader sociopolitical context characterized by the rise of authoritarian, sexually conservative, and anti-western nationalist discourses. Stella provides insights into the contextual ability of political strategies based on visibility, recognition, and the support of transnational solidarity networks to pursue cosmopolitan values of openness and respect toward sexual diversity, highlighting a crucial tension between global/local and universal/particular in current debates on cosmopolitanism

Context (archaeology · Cosmopolitanism · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Pride · Queer · Sociology · Solidarity · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Urbanization and City Planning