Social impacts on GLTQs of GL mega events I am interested in studies about the impact of mega events of a GLTQ nature, such as pride festivals/parades/games, on GLTQ people's position in society (representation, violence) and on GLTQ people's lives (subjectivity), and like matters. Specifically how those events are constructed as legitimizing GLTQ people through the spill-over economic benefits they bring (economic impact assessments), especially when combined with the ongoing political use of market-research studies on the disposable incomes of middle class gay men and lesbians. And how the imaging of gay men and lesbians as economic producers and valued consumers sits alongside counter-narratives such as poverty studies among gaylesbis and among people with HIV/AIDS. If you can recommend sources on any aspect of this, please email direct to me at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thank you. 25 January - Robert Burns Day ----------------------------------------- "Ye see yon birkie ca'd a lord, Wha struts, an stares, an a that; Tho hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a that."
