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1: Queerer than thou: difficult deployments of homonormativity -- 2: Love and marriage: reflections from the Wedding Fair -- 3: "What a skewed set of values": health inequalities in the "post-equalities" era. - 4: Returning to the network: hook-up apps and the myth of the gay public -- 5: Something for the weekend, sir? -- 6: Grey and gay: homonormativity enters retirement -- 7: Building bridges.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introductions: The Personal, the Political and the Perverse -- 2 Contexts and Frameworks: British Gay Male Subculture - 1984 and Beyond -- 3 Cybercarnality: Identifying a Critical Pathway through Gay Men's Digital Culture -- 4 'From the Web Comes a Man': Profiles, Identity and Embodiment in Gay Dating/Sex Websites. -- 5 Cruising the Cybercottage -- 6 Bareback Sex Online: Knowledge, Desire and the Gay Male Body -- 7 Digital Cruising: Mobile and Locative Technologies in Gay Male Subculture -- 8 Conclusion: Some Final Thoughts on Gay Men's Digital Culture -- Bibliography -- Index.

Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the web over the last ten years, yet to date, the relationship between urban gay male culture and digital media technologies has received only limited critical attention. Gaydar Culture fills this gap by offering a timely intervention into the fields of digital media studies, cultural studies and the study of gender and sexuality.

What does it mean that Pride was released in 2014, 30 years after the formation of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and the same year in which a Conservative government made same-sex marriage a legal reality in the UK? In this article, I explore the narrativising of LGSM's story, in order to consider how nostalgia operates in the film. Chiefly, I consider the choices that the screenwriter, Stephen Beresford, made in reconstructing the story of LGSM, and examine what these choices reveal about the changes that have taken place in the political landscape of gay Britain over the last 30 years. Through an analysis of these choices, I argue that Pride offers contemporary audiences a story of radical LGBTQ activism that they can enjoy and celebrate, while side-stepping uncomfortable questions regarding identity politics, single issue politics and the demise of collectivist politics.

This article reflects upon recent developments in sex offender tracking and monitoring. Taking as its focus a suite of mobile applications available for use in the United States, the author explores the impact and consequences of remediating the data held by State offender databases. The article charts the recent history of techno-corrections as it applies to this category of criminal, before then undertaking an analysis of current remediation of this legally obtained data. In doing so, the author identifies how the recontextualizing of data serves to (re)negotiate the relationship between the user, the database and registered sex offenders. The author concludes by arguing that the (mobile) mapping of offender databases serves to obscure the original intentions of these recording mechanisms and might hinder their effectiveness in reducing sex offending.

Have you ever noticed people using their smartphones while waiting for the train? Or people reaching for their phones when suddenly alone in a restaurant? Or people staring intently at their screens before a meeting begins? In this paper I seek to establish a dialogue between two critical methodologies — psychoanalysis and critical political-economy — in order to consider the role of this form of 'distracted' smartphone use in everyday life. The aim of this discussion is to broaden our understanding of 'mundane' phone use and suggest a way of conceptualising this behaviour at both an individual level and at the level of society.

San Juan queer : mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities / Regner Ramos -- A kindr Grindr : moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire / Sharif Mowlabocus -- Learning to become an extremophile : trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin / Ged Ribas-Goody -- Fluid territories : intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces / Mabia Camargo and Eduardo Martins -- Queer infrastructures : LGBTQ networks and urban governance in global London / Ben Campkin -- Digital dogma : relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs / Khaliden Alsaleh -- The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA : reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL / Jody Liu -- Queering the map : on designing digital queer space / Lucas LaRochelle -- Transformismo : a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago's Queer and Latinx communities / Liliana Macias -- Communicating 'race' in a digitized gay China / Tianyang Oscar Zhou -- The Kenwood ladies' bathing pond : instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the 'trans debate' in Britain / Lo Marshall -- Hear, here : preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin / Ariel Beaujot and Víctor M. Macías-González.