Boundaries of desire: Becoming sexual through the spaces of Sydney's 2002 Gay Games

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 773-787

  Waitt, Gordon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Boundaries; Gay games; Same sex desire; Sydney

Indexed keywords

GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; SPORT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY;

EID: 33751338308     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00811.x     Document Type: Article

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