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Queen(s‘) Street or Ponsonby Poofters? Embodied HERO Parade Sites
Author(s) -
JOHNSTON LYNDA
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1997.tb00496.x
Subject(s) - parade , hero , embodied cognition , pride , newspaper , queen (butterfly) , art , media studies , sociology , gender studies , art history , political science , literature , law , hymenoptera , botany , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
Abstract In this paper I highlight some spatial and body politics of the HERO parade, Aotearoa/New Zealand's biggest gay pride parade. The proposed site change of the HERO parade, from Queen Street to Ponsonby Road, was debated at length in local newspapers. This debate can be theorised as contingent on western hierarchical dualisms such as mind/body, public/ private, straight/gay. 1 offer an embodied geography through a focus on the constitutive relationship between bodies and places.