Relocations: queer suburban imaginaries -- Relocating queer critique: Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois -- Behind the orange curtain -- Empire of my familiar -- The light that never goes out: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan reclaim "lesser Los Angeles" -- Coda: love among the ruins: contact, creativity, and Klub Fantasy
Summary
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as "Lesser Los Angeles"--A global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's "nowhere"spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia
