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50 Years of Pride: Queer Spatial Joy as Radical Planning Praxis

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  • Marisa Turesky

    (Urban Planning & Development, University of Southern California, USA)

  • Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

    (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona, USA)

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Planning has historically been used as a tool to regulate queer people in urban space and parades have long been a vibrant, yet overlooked, practice for resisting such municipal regulation—although parades themselves require spatial planning practices. We analyze the 50-year history of the Los Angeles Pride parade through archival materials, asking to what extent and how the historical planning of LA Pride demonstrates a radical planning praxis, especially in relation to policing. We find that LA Pride was initially (a) a ritual of remembrance and (b) a political organizing device. In contrast to heteronormative readings of Pride as an opportunity to “come out” and transform the “straight state,” we argue that the early years of Pride demonstrated intersectional and insurgent planning wherein heterogeneous queer people claimed agency through collectively expressing joy as an act of resistance to municipal governance. Based on theories of Black joy and the feminist killjoy, we conceptualize this experience as a “spatialized queer joy.” This concept is particularly germane given ongoing debates regarding the relationship between queer and BIPOC urban life and policing. We suggest that spatialized queer joy complicates conventional readings of Pride and queer urban space, offering instead powerful tools for radical queer planning praxis.

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  • Marisa Turesky & Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, 2023. "50 Years of Pride: Queer Spatial Joy as Radical Planning Praxis," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(2), pages 262-276.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:262-276
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    1. Alison L Bain & Julie A Podmore, 2021. "Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(7), pages 1305-1326, May.
    2. William J Payne, 2021. "Queer urban activism under state impunity: Encountering an LGBTTTI Pride archive in Chilpancingo, Mexico," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(7), pages 1327-1345, May.
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    1. Petra L. Doan, 2023. "Re-Orienting Planning Practice," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(2), pages 277-280.

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