Lesbian spaces in transition : insights from Toronto and Sydney

In this chapter, we examine how lesbian urban geographies are currently being transformed through a comparative analysis of concemporaty lesbian place-making activities in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada. In doing so, we step away from more traditional scholarship on geographies of sexualities and queer geographies to argue that 'new mobilities' scholarship offers potential insights into the complex reorganizing of sexual and gendered inner-city landscapes. Through an exploration of the similarities and differences in sexual and gendered mobilities in Toronto and Sydney, we seek to delineate newly emergent and expressly 'lesbian'-identified urban locations that constitute entangled, fluid and networked geographies that reflect particular physicaL representational and experiential intercommunications and relations.