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Queer in a Wee Place explores identity, inequality and belonging in animated conversations about how queerness moves through place – and how place, in turn, shapes queer lives. Building on interdisciplinary sexualities scholarship, activism, creative practices, as well as legislative and cultural critique, this open access book examines the past, present and future imaginings of queerness in Scotland, as a ‘wee place’. With cases covering law, policies, cultural institutions, education, and everyday life, this collection offers an in-depth analysis of Scottish queer experience, showing how ‘wee places’ reflect and inflect global dynamics – revealing tensions between national pride, visibility and exclusion. Scotland’s national claims about being world-leading in the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights often re-invoke a global hierarchy of places to be queer. The under-resourcing of and backlash against equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and colliding legislation such as hate crime laws and the UK Supreme Court ruling, expose a more complicated truth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by UKRI.

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This is a dazzling collection, a volume that contains a marvelously rich mix from feminist and queer legal theory, to social and cultural policy as it impacts on queer and working-class communities in Scotland, to migrant queer experiences on the dancefloor. There is also biography and autobiography as well as ethnographic work in the classroom. A key feature is the importance of ongoing struggles and resistance against heteronormative assumptions and alongside this the need to challenge Scottish romanticisms about its progressive identity. Its a major achievement, an erudite and also a highly readable volume, a 'must read' indeed. * Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths University of London, UK * This generative and confronting collection invites us to re-think, re-position, and re-imagine the imbrication of queerness and Scottishness, alongside other social differences. Taylor has curated an impressive array of creatives, scholars, and activists who explore the tensions, possibilities, pleasures, risks, and glitches that emerge for queer and trans people navigating their senses of belonging to the ‘wee nation’ of Scotland. * Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * Yvette Taylor’s Queer in a Wee Place is a carefully curated collection of ‘big conversations’ about queerness in peripheral places in Scotland. It is attentive to where people come from, ‘noticing the dirt and delight of a back lane in Glasgow marked ‘lesbian library’, it remembers what was scrawled on the wall before it was scrubbed clean’. Revelling in interdisciplinary methods this collection dwells in local histories, languages, and social systems inviting readers to contemplate very specific places and practices and have shaped queer lives. * Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University, Australia *

This is a dazzling collection, a volume that contains a marvelously rich mix from feminist and queer legal theory, to social and cultural policy as it impacts on queer and working-class communities in Scotland, to migrant queer experiences on the dancefloor. There is also biography and autobiography as well as ethnographic work in the classroom. A key feature is the importance of ongoing struggles and resistance against heteronormative assumptions and alongside this the need to challenge Scottish romanticisms about its progressive identity. Its a major achievement, an erudite and also a highly readable volume, a 'must read' indeed. * Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths University of London, UK *

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Yvette Taylor is a Sociologist and Professor of Education, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK.

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