“He asked me if i was looking for fags…”: Ottawa’s national capital commission conservation officers and the policing of public park sex

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 367-379

  Walby, Kevin ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952065826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24908/ss.v6i4.3268     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Alexander, P. 1996. Bathhouses and Brothels: Symbolic Sites in Discourse and Practice. In Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of Aids Activism, ed. Colter, G., W. Hoffman, E. Pendleton, A. Redick, D. Serlin, 221-250. Boston: South End Press.
2. Aveline, D. 1995. A Typology of Perceived HIV/AIDS Risk-Reduction Strategies Used by Men who “Cruise” other Men for Anonymous Sex. The Journal of Sex Research, 32(3): 201-212.
3. Bell, D. and J. Binnie. 2004. Authenticating Queer Space: Urbanism and Governance. Urban Studies, 41(9): 1807-1820.
4. Bell, D. 1995. Perverse Dynamics, Sexual Citizenship and the Transformation of Intimacy. In Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, ed. Bell, D. and G. Valentine, 304-317. London: Routledge.
5. Berlant, L. and M. Warner. 1998. Sex in Public. Critical Inquiry, 24(2): 547-566.
6. Bérubé, A. 1996. The History of Gay Bathhouses. In Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of Aids Activism, ed. Colter, G., W. Hoffman, E. Pendleton, A. Redick, D. Serlin, 187-220. Boston: South End Press.
7. Besmier, M. 2003. Ottawa: Federal Capital and First National Symbol. Queen’s Quarterly, 110(2): 196.
8. Bittner, E. 1967. The Police on Skid-Row: a Study of Peace Keeping. American Sociological Review, 32(5): 699-716.
9. Blomley, N. 2004. Un-Real Estate: Proprietary Space and Public Gardening. Antipode, 36(4): 614-641.
10. Califia, P. 1994. Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex. San Francisco: Cleis Press.
11. Carter, T. 2006. Police Use of Discretion: a Participant Observation Study of Game Wardens. Deviant Behavior, 27(4): 591-627.
12. Chan, W. and G. Rigakos. 2002. Risk, Crime and Gender. British Journal of Criminology, 42(4): 743-761.
13. Chauncey, G. 1994. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 189-1940. New York: Basic Books.
14. Colter, E., W. Hoffman, E. Pendleton, A. Redick, D. Serlin. 1996. Introduction. In Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of Aids Activism, ed. Colter, G., W. Hoffman, E. Pendleton, A. Redick, D. Serlin, 13-20. Boston: South End Press.
15. Delph, E. 1978. The Silent Community: Public Homosexual Encounters. Beverly Hills: Sage.
16. Deroches, F. 1990. Tearoom Trade: A Research Update. Qualitative Sociology, 13(1): 39-61.
17. Edwards, T. 1994. Erotics & Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism. London: Routledge.
18. Ericson, R. 1981. Making Crime: A Study of Detective Work. Toronto: Butterworths.
19. Foucault, M. 2003. Lives of Infamous Men. In The Essential Foucault. Rabinow, P and N. Rose (eds). London: The New Press.
20. Flowers, P., G. Hart, and C. Marriott. 1999. Constructing Sexual Health: Gay Men and “Risk” in the Context of a Public Sex Environment. Journal of Health Psychology, 4(4): 483-495.
21. Frankis, J. and P. Flowers. 2006. Cruising for Sex: Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Testing of Men Who Cruise, Inside and Outwith Public Sex Environment. AIDS Care, 18(1): 54-59.
22. Hannigan, J. 1998. Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis. London: Routledge.
23. Herek, G. 2004. Beyond “Homophobia”: Thinking About Sexual Prejudice and Stigma in the Twenty-First Century. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 1(2): 6-24.
24. Hermer, J. 2002. The Nature of Order in North American Parks: Regulating Eden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
25. Hubbard, P. 2001. Sex Zones: Intimacy, Citizenship and Public Space. Sexualities, 4(1): 51-71.
26. Hubbard, P. 2000. Desire/Disgust: Mapping the Moral Contours of Heterosexuality. Progress in Human Geography, 24(2): 191-217.
27. Huber, J. and P. Kleinplatz. 2002. Sexual Orientation Identification of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Public Settings in Canada. Journal of Homosexuality, 43(2): 1-20.
28. Humphreys, L. 1975. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
29. Ip, G. 1987. Woman Objects to Gays Cruising in Park. Ottawa Citizen, June 15: C20.
30. Johnson, P. 2007. Ordinary Folk and Cottaging: Law, Morality and Public Sex. Journal of Law and Society, 34(4): 520-543.
31. Kinsman, G. 1996. The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities. Black Rose Books: Montreal.
32. Lee, J. 1979. The Social Organization of Sexual Risk. Alternative Lifestyles, 2: 69-100.
33. Little, J., R. Panelli, and A. Kraack. 2005. Women’s Fear of Crime: A Rural Perspective. Journal of Rural Studies, 21(2): 151-163.
34. Lunny, A. 2003. Provocation and “Homosexual” Advance: Masculinized Subjects as Threat, Masculinized Subjects Under Threat. Social & Legal Studies, 12(3): 311-333.
35. Manchulenko, L. 2000. Sex in City Parks Riles West-end Residents: Notorious Spots for Gay Liaisons Target of Police, Public Groups. Ottawa Citizen, March 25: C3.
36. Marx, G. 2006. What’s in a Concept? Some Reflections on the Complications and Complexities of Personal Information and Anonymity. University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, 3(1): 1-34.
37. Marx, G. 2002. Technology and Gender: Thomas I. Voire and the Case of the Peeping Tom. The Sociological Quarterly, 43(3): 409-433.
38. Merrick, J. 2002. “Nocturnal Birds” in the Champs-Elysées: Police and Pederasty in Prerevolutionary Paris. The GLQ Archive, 8(3): 425-432.
39. Myers, K., K. Forest and S. Miller. 2004. Officer Friendly and the Tough Cop: Gays and Lesbians Navigate Homophobia and Policing. Journal of Homosexuality, 47(1): 17-37.
40. Namaste, K. 1996. Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender and the Regulation of Public Space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14(2): 221-240.
41. National Capital Commission. 1965. An Account of the History, Legislation and Composition of the National Capital Commission together with an Outline of the Work, Projects and Other Functions of the Commission. Ottawa: Information Division of the National Capital Commission.
42. Oslund, R. 1989. Gays Using Remic Beach Area for Sex Infuriates Residents. Ottawa Citizen, June 22: B1.
43. Pain, R. 1997. Social Geographies of Women’s Fear of Crime. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 22(2): 231-244.
44. Parnaby, P. 2007. Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: Financial Hardship, the Dynamics of Power and the Prospects of Governance. Crime, Law & Social Change, 48(1): 73-85.
45. Parnaby, P. 2006. Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: Discourses of Risk, Social Control and a Neo-Liberal Context. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 48(1): 1-29
46. Pryke, S. 1998. Nationalism and Sexuality, what are the Issues? Nations and Nationalism, 4(4): 529-546.
47. Ricco, J. 2002. The Logic of the Lure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
48. Rubin, G. 1993. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Abelove, H., M. Barale and D Halperin, 3-44. New York: Routledge.
49. Schellenberg, K. 1997. Police Information Systems, Information Practices and Individual Privacy. Canadian Public Policy, XXIII(1): 23-39.
50. Smith, N. 1996. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. New York: Routledge.
51. Smith, M. 1991. Those NCC Condoms. Ottawa Citizen, April 15: A10.
52. Smith, G. 1988. Policing the Gay Community: An Inquiry into Textually-mediated Social Relations. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 16(2): 163-183.
53. Tewksbury, R. 1996. Cruising for Sex in Public Places: the Structure and Language of Men’s Hidden Erotic Worlds. Deviant Behavior, 17(1): 1-19.
54. Tewksbury, R. 1995. Adventures in the Erotic Oasis: Sex and Danger in Men’s Same-Sex Public Sexual Encounters. Journal of Men’s Studies, 4(1): 9-24.
55. Walby, K. 2009. Surveillance of Male with Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-1994. In Surveillance: Power, Problems and Politics, ed. Hier, S. and J. Greenberg, 46-58. Vancouver: UBC Press.
56. Walby, K. 2006. Locating Televisual and Non-Televisual Textual Sequences with Institutional Ethnography: a Study of Campus and Apartment CCTV Security Work. Culture and Organization, 13(2): 153-168.
57. Walby, K. 2005. Institutional Ethnography and Surveillance Studies: An Outline for Inquiry. Surveillance and Society, 3(2/3): 158-172.
58. Conlon, D. 2004. Productive Bodies, Performative Spaces: Everyday Life in Christopher Park. Sexualities, 7(4): 462-479.
59. Williams, M. and A. Robinson. 2004. Problems and Prospects with Policing the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Wales. Policing & Society, 14(3): 213-232.
60. Zedner, L. 2007. Pre-Crime and Post-Criminology? Theoretical Criminology, 11(2): 261-281.