White Gay Transnational Tourism

White Gay Transnational Tourism
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White Gay Transnational Tourism
The chapter "Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism" by Jacqui Alexander explores how a heterosexual capitalist system largely controls the management and production of gay tourism and why it is both ideologically and materially exploitative. She begins by positing that the gay tourism sector has been manufactured and appropriated by a controlling heterosexist private enterprise that only rolls out the welcome mat not out of hospitality but for financial and social gain. This exploitation is evident in the homonormativity of gay tourists, who are conspicuously white and male: it erases other working-class and low-income members of the LGBT group, including lesbians, people of color, transgender people, and non-able bodied people, among others. In addition to generalizing and manufacturing a male, white gay consumer group, the heterosexual capitalistic industry capital...