Draft:Queer Geography

Queer geography is a subset of Human Geography which emerged to challenge heterosexuality within the discipline. Queer geography seeks to understand the role of "place and space in the production of sexual identities, practices, communities, subjectivities, and embodiments." Queer geography uses queer theory as its basis.

Early work focused on mapping the spaces of gay men and lesbians. Evolving since then, it has expanded to explore the ways that "heterosexuality is often spatially constituted as normative, thus rendering nonheterosexual people out of place or as needing to queer space." Scholars argue that sexual and gender equalities "cannot be understood outside the interconnections between places."

Methods
Queer geography methods are attuned to the visibility of mapping queer people and communities and the possible harms that this may cause. Research design and methods must be aware of the possible harms that making public these geographies can cause to the queer community.

Gill Valentine

Catherine J. Nash

Andrew Gorman-Murray

Scott McKinnon

John Paul Catungal

Julie Podmore