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Geography and sexuality: Why space (still) matters

In this position piece I reflect on twenty years of research on geographies of sexuality and argue that the contribution of geography to the study of human sexuality remains under-sold and under-appreciated (both within geography itself and the wider social sciences). In part, this is because of a misapprehension that the main contribution of geography of sexualities has been to map the location of gay neighbourhoods (and, to a lesser extent, red-light districts). In this paper I challenge this view by highlighting other empirical foci within the sub-discipline, noting that emerging relational understandings of place are encouraging a more nuanced understanding of the varied - and often virtual – sexual spaces of the twenty first century.