Queer Geography

Queer geographies overlap with the geographies of sexualities, but the two fields are not entirely interchangeable. Queer geographies offer an approach that combines queer theory with spatial analytics to describe and analyze the social coconstitution of sexuality and space. This article discusses the contributions of queer geographies to scholarship, focusing on three geographical lenses: scale, mobility, and place-making. The article first charts inter-relations of sexuality and space at the scales of the body, home, city, and nation-state, and then traces queer processes of emplacement and displacement ranging across the local, national, global, urban, and rural.