Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945

Introduction Matt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) & Jennifer Evans (Carleton University, Canada) Pasts 1. The Queer Margins of Spanish Cities, 1939-2010 Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds, UK), Rosa Maria Medina Domenech (University of Granada, Spain) & Isabel Velez (independent scholar) 2. Capital Stories: Local Lives in Queer London Matt Cook 3. The Queer Road to Frisind: Copenhagen 1945-2012 Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 4. Harmless Kisses and Infinite Loops: Making Space for Queer Place in 21st Century Berlin Jennifer Evans 5. From Stalinist Pariahs to Subjects of 'Managed Democracy': Queers in Moscow 1945 to the Present Dan Healey (University of Oxford, UK) 6. Queer Amsterdam 1945-2010 Gert Hekma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Ljubljana: The Tales from the Queer Margins of the City Roman Kuhar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 8. Mapping/ Unmapping: The Making of Queer Athens Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford University, UK) 9. Istanbul: Queer Desires between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop Ralph Poole (Salzburg University, Austria) 10. Queering Budapest Judit Takacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 11. Two Cities of Helsinki? One Liberally Gay and One Practically Queer? Antu Sorainen (Academy of Finland) 12. Paris: 'Resting on its Laurels'? Florence Tamagne (University of Lille, France) Closing Reflections 13. 'Gays Who Cannot Properly be Gay'. Queer Muslims in the Neoliberal European City Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California, San Diego) 14. Seeing Like a Queer City Tom Boellstorff (University of California, Irvine)