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Title:Perverts, outlaws and dissidents: (homo)sexual citizenship and urban space in Johannesburg
Author:Pieterse, MariusISNI
Year:2015
Periodical:Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330)
Volume:26
Issue:2
Pages:97-112
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:LGBT
urban areas
equal opportunity
homosexuality
External link:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-014-9247-z
Abstract:This article explores some of the interlinkages between the physical enactment of the right to the city, the spatial dimensions of urban sexual citizenship and the legal invocation of sexual rights. Its focus is on the struggles for rights and sexual citizenship by different gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersexed (LGBTI) inhabitants of Johannesburg. It aims to supplement the dominant legal narrative of rights-based victory and liberation with insights gained from the spatial expression of, demand for and denial of sexual rights, understood in light of the broader rubric of the right to the city. Such an approach reveals the spatial and personal particularities of rights and shows up prevailing inequalities in the enjoyment of rights across intersectionalities of race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, class and space. It further exposes the limits of strategic 'equal rights' litigation strategies and provides a conceptual framework for ongoing and future contestation over LGBTI rights. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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