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There is an uneven geography to these processes and practices which are experienced in very different ways depending on their specific geographical context Rather than assume that the homonormative subjectivities produced in the dense social networks and spaces of metropolitan gay life are reproduced in other geographical contexts, I suggest that researchers should examine the complex range of contemporary and historical factors including, but not limited to neoliberal economic policies and modes of governmentality that shape LGBT lives in small and medium-sized cities.
In this way, larger entities emerge out of smaller entities; large scale assemblages are frequently made up of many smaller assemblages of various kinds. What is important is to understand the ways in which assemblages come together, stabilize, but also the conditions under which they destabilize and fall apart. Such an approach might pay attention to local labour markets, flows of capital, path dependencies unfolding from local histories, the use of smart phone technologies, the fleeting popularity of a new bar, and much more besides. Assemblage thinking draws attention to the contingent coming together of multiple factors to shape sexual practices, subjectivities, and politics in a specific time and place.
While the primary purpose of this paper is not to make a strong case for assemblage thinking in the study of the lives of LGBT people, I use it here to illustrate the range of factors that might shape contemporary sexual politics in Leicester. I use this specific case study to argue that there is a danger in over-extending universalizing arguments about contemporary sexual politics that are based on the experience of life in a small number of major global cities.
His mother worked in the hosiery factories that, along with precision light engineering, made the city have one of the highest per capita incomes in Europe in the s. Elsie Orton pawned her wedding ring to pay for Joe to attend a private business college in the city. Consequently, when he left school he took low grade clerical jobs, rather than following his peers on to the factory floor. Nevertheless, Orton retained a strong sense of his working class identity throughout his life. At the height of his fame, in the months before his death, his diary recorded the following encounter about a cheap fur coat he had received as a gift from his agent.
Tellingly, she also notes how Joe acknowledged the role class played in scripting his homoerotic desires. He knew we were ill-informed and uneducated but he also knew we intrinsically cared for him. Does it show a vestige of care on his part? Leicester is currently the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom. The population of the city is approximately , people, with closer to half a million people living in the city and its suburbs.
In the s, the city received a large influx of East African Indians fleeing persecution in Uganda and Kenya. Many of these men were professionals or entrepreneurs who had run successful businesses. Over time they have been joined by other flows of migrants from the Indian sub-continent, elsewhere in Africa, and from Central and Eastern Europe.
Consequently, the social geography of the city is comprised of a rich patchwork of neighbourhoods shaped by different intersections of ethnicity, religion, and social class. Leicester is the first local government district outside parts of inner London where no single ethnic group forms the majority of the population In that context, I turn now to briefly charting some of the recent history of gay life in the Leicester and the surrounding region.
Those infrastructures were neither as dense, nor as extensive, as I was used to finding in London and other large metropolitan cities; but they were not entirely absent either. I quickly discovered that Leicester was home to a small number of bars and clubs, and that one of them claimed to be one of the oldest continuously-operating gay bars in England.
As well as social groups, they set up a gay telephone helpline and befriending service. This helpline was the first gay community group in England to receive public funding. In they hosted a national conference of gay helplines.
There were a small group of gay radicals in Leicester in the late s who formed a local Gay Liberation Front group. One of their leading members, Bernard Greaves, initiated a campaign against police entrapment of gay men in toilets and cruising areas in the city, replicating a campaign he had previously initiated in Cambridge This campaign eventually inspired: first, changes in police procedure; and, later, the law.
But I would also suggest that elements of these pasts might continue to shape life in Leicester. What path dependencies did they establish? What opportunities did they create? What other opportunities did they shut down? Throughout the s and into the s, many men from Leicester would travel to the Pavilion Club in rural Derbyshire — a gay club owned and run by its members that was located in a former village sports pavilion This venue serves as a useful reminder that the gay bar scene has relied on a diverse range of economic forms and relationships to sustain it over many decades Working class lesbian and gay subcultures such as drag and butch-femme persisted as a central aspect of local gay life for longer than in many larger cities.
Their interests and outlook on life largely reflected the habitus of the provincial middle classes and the most affluent layers of skilled workers. They were more likely to invite the local Anglican bishop to discuss the theological implications of homosexuality, than a gay activist from London. Similarly, their meetings and outings celebrated English homosexualities for example, the music of Benjamin Britten and the faded camp splendour of stately homes, rather than transatlantic gay liberation chic.
I now turn to thinking about how these histories might linger on in shaping assemblages of contemporary sexual subjectivities, norms, and politics locally. The impacts and consequences of these social changes have been uneven and inconsistent.
In the era of same-sex marriage, gay life has been domesticated. That study explored how the seeds of the new homonormativity were sown in the period when neoliberalism was still in the ascendancy. There are dangers in seeing neoliberalism and, therefore, homonormativity as all-encompassing Theorizations that see expressions of neoliberalism and homonormativity everywhere, in everything, foreshadow other experiences, economic practices, and social relationships.
Such theorizations of homonormativity frequently overlook geographical variation and specificity in the lived experience of sexual minorities such that they re centre exactly the metropolitan experiences that they critique Here is a photo of the sunset over my street. The street is a mixture of late th century terraced housing built for the workers of a local factory and larger houses built in the mid th century. Some houses are owner-occupied, many are privately rented.
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