Queer Sites in Global Contexts

Regner Ramos is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by experimental research methods, shifting between model-making, drawing, and performative writing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of informa journal and the architecture Editor at Glass magazine, and Co-Director of Wet Hard Agency. His current research project, “Cürtopia: Queer Maps for Puerto Rico”, is funded by FIPI.Sharif Mowlabocus is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Gaydar Culture (2010) and his forthcoming book, Interrogating Homonormativity, explores the British gay male culture in the ‘post-equalities’ era.

• Introduction 1REGNER RAMOS AND SHARIF MOWLABOCUS1 San Juan queer: mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities 14REGNER RAMOS2 A Kindr Grindr: moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire 33SHARIF MOWLABOCUS3 Learning to become an extremophile: trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin 48GED RIBAS-GOODY4 Fluid territories: intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces 66MABIA CAMARGO AND EDUARDO MARTINS5 Queer infrastructures: LGBTQ+ networks and urban governance in global London 82BEN CAMPKIN6 Digital dogma: relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs 102KHALIDEN ALSALEHContents7 The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA: reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL 117JODY LIU8 Queering the Map: on designing digital queer space 133LUCAS LAROCHELLE9 Transformismo: a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago’s queer and Latinx communities 148LILIANA MACIAS10 Communicating ‘race’ in a digitized gay China 162OSCAR TIANYANG ZHOU11 The Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond: instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the ‘Trans Debate’ in Britain 179LO MARSHALL12 Hear, Here: preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin 198ARIEL BEAUJOT AND VÍCTOR M. MACÍAS-GONZÁLEZ