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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-Pinta
This 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.

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Publication title

Conference Handbook in CAUTHE 2018 Get Smart: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Editors

T Young, P Stolk and G McGinnis

Pagination

95

ISBN

978-0-9945141-3-4

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education

Place of publication

Australia

Event title

CAUTHE 2018

Event Venue

Newcastle, NSW

Date of Event (Start Date)

2018-02-05

Date of Event (End Date)

2018-02-08

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Socio-cultural issues in tourism

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