Heteroactivism

Catherine Jean Nash is Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University, Canada. Her research interests include geographies of sexuality/queer/feminist and trans geographies, mobilities and digital sexualities. She is currently working with Kath Browne (and Andrew Gorman-Murray) tracing transnational oppositions to LGBTQ rights in Canada, the UK and Ireland, and with Andrew Gorman-Murray on new mobilities and digital life and the transformations in LGBT and queer neighbourhoods in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada. Her previous books include Queer Methods and Methodologies (with Kath Browne, 2016), The Geographies of Digital Sexualities (with Andrew Gorman-Murray, 2019), and the Canadian edition of Human Geography: People, Place and Culture (with Erin Fouberg et al, 2015).Kath Browne is a Professor of Geography University College, Dublin. Her research interests lie in sexualities, genders and spatialities. She has worked on LGBT equalities, lesbian geographies, gender transgressions and women’s spaces. She has authored over 100 publications including journal articles and co-wrote (with Leela Bakshi) Ordinary in Brighton: LGBT, activisms and the City (2013), and Queer Spiritual Spaces(2010), and co-edited The Routledge Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (2016) and Lesbian Geographies (2015).

• Heteroactivism: An Introduction1. Same-Sex Marriage: Supporting ‘Heterosexual Families’2. Schools: Challenging the Inclusion of LGBT Lives and Families3. Trans: Resisting Gender Ideologies and Trans Equalities4. Freedom of Speech: Creating Space to Contest LGBT Equalities5. Public Inclusions: Claiming the Place of HeteroactivismConclusion

'Emphasizing transnational networks and activisms, Catherine Jean Nash and Kath Browne provide a fascinating guide to the new heteroactivism in countries where many students of anti-LGBTQ backlash assume we have won.