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Dating apps and gay travellers: Hyper-local and virtual-physical leisure
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-24, 17:23 authored by Oskaras Vorobjovas-PintaOskaras Vorobjovas-PintaThis working paper informs about the use of gay dating apps within contemporary gay community, and the spatial reorientation stemming from the juxtaposition of physical and digital geographies. These data indicate that gay apps remain a pervasive way of making connections, even in an environment where common homosexuality is a reasonable expectation, and where open self-expression is permitted and even encouraged. This complicates assumptions that gay apps’ emergence was in response to a need for privacy or anonymity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in wider, straight society.
History
Publication title
Conference Handbook in CAUTHE 2018 Get Smart: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Tourism, Hospitality and EventsEditors
T Young, P Stolk and G McGinnisPagination
95ISBN
978-0-9945141-3-4Department/School
TSBEPublisher
Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality EducationPlace of publication
AustraliaEvent title
CAUTHE 2018Event Venue
Newcastle, NSWDate of Event (Start Date)
2018-02-05Date of Event (End Date)
2018-02-08Repository Status
- Restricted