Session intro: Through
an examination of gay spaces in three metropolitan
areas, as well as the representation thereof in
literature and film, the speakers hope to establish
a topography of contemporary interactions, uses, and
representations of the gay urban environments of
Tokyo, Paris, and Mexico City. The studies
will look at the ways in which each of the cities is
inhabited, explored, and “queered” by a gay male
population that uses the spaces as places in which
to explore urban queerness and in which certain
aspects of heteronormativity and homonormativity are
subverted.