Trans lives in the 'gay capital of the UK'
Trans lives in the 'gay capital of the UK'
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DOI：
10.1080/0966369x.2010.503118
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Lim, Jason
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作者：
Browne, Kath;Lim, Jason
最近的地理干预已经开始质疑女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者之间的权力关系，挑战了LGBT社区有同质需求或不以权力等级为特征的假设。这些干预措施包括将LGBT场所作为排斥跨性别者的场所进行检查。这篇文章通过关注英国的“同性恋之都”布莱顿霍夫（Brighton Hove）来增加对跨性别生活的学术探索。尽管布莱顿霍夫受到广泛赞誉，但它在英国同性恋城市的学术讨论中却明显缺席。这篇文章借鉴了“算我也算”（Count Me In Too， CMIT），这是一个参与性行动研究项目，旨在为布莱顿霍夫的LGBT人群推动社会变革。这篇文章并没有关注LGBT的场景，而是讲述了伦敦更广泛的经历，包括那些与作为一个寻求“包容LGBT”的政治实体的城市有关的经历，以及那些与将跨性别者转移到城市边界之外的医疗“治疗”地理有关的经历，特别是在伦敦查令十字医院的性别认同诊所。它认为，跨性别生活既被排除在“同性恋之都”的地理想象之外，又不可避免地与之联系在一起，包括LGBT空间、场景和行动主义，因此，复杂的性和性别团结同时被创造和争议。通过这种方式，这篇文章认识到希望和团结与边缘化经历共存的矛盾之处- -应该加以重视。
Recent geographical interventions have begun to question the power relations among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, challenging assumptions that LGBT communities have homogeneous needs or are not characterised by hierarchies of power. Such interventions have included examinations of LGBT scenes as sites of exclusion for trans people. This article augments academic explorations of trans lives by focusing on 'the gay capital' of the UK, Brighton Hove, a city that is notably absent from academic discussions of gay urbanities in the UK, despite its wider acclaim. The article draws upon Count Me In Too (CMIT), a participatory action research project that seeks to progress social change for LGBT people in Brighton Hove. Rather than focusing on LGBT scenes, the article addresses broader experiences of the city, including those relating to the city as a political entity that seeks to be 'LGBT inclusive' and those relating to the geographies of medical 'treatment' that relocate trans people outside the boundaries of the city, specifically to the gender identity clinic at Charing Cross Hospital in London. It argues that trans lives are both excluded from and inextricably linked to geographical imaginings of the 'gay capital', including LGBT spaces, scenes and activism, such that complex sexual and gender solidarities are simultaneously created and contested. In this way, the article recognises the paradoxes of the hopes and solidarities that co-exist - and should be held in tension - with experiences of marginalisation.