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...Kevin Markwell Duke University Press 2002 MARDI GRAS TOURISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SYDNEY AS AN INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN CITY Kevin Markwell The capital of New South Wales is the oldest and largest city in Aus- tralia, and probably its best known. It is a vivid, busy, brash...

... to attract gay tourists often take place hand in hand with major corporations such as British Airways. Although some of these corporations have attempted to use existing gay events, such as Sydney’s Mardi Gras, as building blocks, most localities market them- selves as “gay-friendly” places rather than...

.... Several articles, such as Venetia Kantsa’s about lesbian tourism to Eresos, on the Greek island of Lesvos, and Kevin Markwell’s about Mardi Gras tourism to Syd- ney, offer copious and illuminating ethnographic accounts of how global tourism has altered the spatial relations of place...

... by more than a million people.11 Other major gay events include Sydney’s Mardi Gras and the Gay Games, which, like the Olympics, occurs every four years. But World Pride also had the specific purpose of altering public perceptions of gays and lesbians in Italy.12 “World Pride wouldn’t have happened...

... in the summertime would be in cities like New York City, and then move down to Miami or San Francisco in the wintertime because those were more livable places.” 7 Annual fairs, conventions, and national festivals dictated movement. One of the most important festivals was New Orleans’ Mardi Gras. Tennessee...

..., which will feature an international lesbian and gay film festival, a theater festival, mardi gras, and a symposium. Soon there will be a gay press. Gay men are now banding together to battle the spread of AIDS. . . . Gay and lesbian activism [in the Philippines] is in practical terms just...

... where the largely American symbols could be made relevant to local conditions (as with Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which has become a uniquely Australian version of what elsewhere are “gay pride parades But in a world where more and more cultural styles are imported and assimilated...

...’ carnivalesque themes paid homage to time-honored mainstream spectacular conventions. Masquerade balls, Mardi Gras, and the carnivals of Venice and Rio de Janeiro, for instance, offer homosex- uals and heterosexuals alike respite from sexual censure. However, the anonymity...

.... There are numerous small gay tourist resorts, the most successful at Turtle Cove outside Cairns in north Queensland, and a network of gay or gay-friendly accommodations in the main cities and tourist areas. Sydney is a major gay city: its annual Februarymarch Mardi Gras is the largest gay and lesbian parade...

... decriminalization of homosexuality, the intro- duction of HIV/AIDS public health that validated and affirmed gay sex, amend- ments to marriage and property laws that recognized the interdependency of same-sex couples, and the mainstream embrace of the queer social movement in Mardi Gras cultural tourism.2...

... Bornstein’s play Hidden: A Gender with the Theatre Rhi- noceros in 1989.28 He developed the character of Kiki in 1993 and brought her to New York a year later. Bond and Mellman have performed as Kiki and Herb at the Queer Up North Festival in Manchester, at the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras...

... appropriates an essentialized indigenous iden- tity, this time a mestizo “Indian” identity depends on the erasure of indigenous Apache identity. Quoting George Lipsitz, Gopinath likens Apache Indian’s pro­ ject to the appropriation of Native identity by African Americans during Mardi Gras celebrations...

... can imagine people stocking up on it pre-­Mardi Gras and then behaving like cars at a service station all weekend . . . ‘Fill er up!’ ” — before he went on to qualify the associations as he saw them, “but I also meant in the novel’s sense of strange Sci-­Fi medicine...