This article compares queer social scenes in the 1960s in three English towns and cities: Brighton and Plymouth on the south coast and Manchester in the northwest. It considers how queer experience in these places was affected by local identities, demographics, geographies, and socioeconomic circumstances and so demonstrates how and why the local matters to queer scenes and lives, even in the midst of wider burgeoning mass and connective cultures. A focus on London has dominated analysis of both the “Swinging Sixties” and queer lives in England; this article shows how different queer experience outside that city could be. Despite multiple resonances and connections, London's queer story cannot stand in for that of other places.

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当地事务：1960 年代曼彻斯特、普利茅斯和布莱顿的酷儿场景

本文比较了 1960 年代英国三个城镇的酷儿社交场景：南部海岸的布莱顿和普利茅斯以及西北部的曼彻斯特。它考虑了这些地方的酷儿体验如何受到当地身份、人口统计、地理和社会经济环境的影响，从而展示了当地如何以及为什么对酷儿场景和生活很重要，即使在更广泛的新兴大众文化和相互联系的文化中也是如此。对伦敦的关注主导了对“摇摆六十年代”和英国酷儿生活的分析。这篇文章展示了这个城市之外的酷儿体验是多么不同。尽管有多重共鸣和联系，伦敦的酷儿故事无法代替其他地方的故事。