Sexual citizenship in Latvia: Geographies of the Latvian closet

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-181

  Waitt, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Counterhegemonic space; Latvia; National closets; Riga; Sexual citizenship; Sexual minorities

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BALTIC STATES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATVIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 19844374071     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360500074618     Document Type: Article

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