ABSTRACT

Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men’s bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic practices, which are immanent to gay men’s travel cultures, play into a pinkwashing geopolitics in this specific circumstance. Thus, this paper conceptualizes pinkwashing mechanisms operation through heritage tourist sites just as much as they are produced via the presentation of Tel Aviv as a modern space of acceptance of LGBT sexualities, albeit obviously in different ways. Moreover, tourists’ notions of place and non-place construct how (urban) space is produced as meaningful while other (heritage) space is marginalized. Methodologically, I present a reflexive embodied ethnography, which relies on my researcher’s reflexivity to produce an analysis through a story.

摘要

同性恋旅游通常通过城市中的骄傲活动来研究。本文重新思考男同性恋者的身体和政治在以色列遗产地旅游背景下所扮演的角色，有助于就地缘政治和性地理以及旅游的具体方法展开辩论。通过分析巴勒斯坦被占领土的一日游，我认为，男同性恋者的旅行文化固有的感官、具体和触觉实践在这种特定情况下发挥了粉红色的地缘政治的作用。因此，本文将通过遗产旅游景点的洗粉机制概念化，就像它们通过将特拉维夫展示为接受 LGBT 性行为的现代空间所产生的一样多，尽管显然以不同的方式。而且，游客对地方和非地方的概念构建了（城市）空间如何被生产为有意义的，而其他（遗产）空间被边缘化。在方法论上，我提出了一种反思性体现的民族志，它依赖于我的研究人员的反思性来通过一个故事进行分析。