Research on sexuality and space emphasizes geographic and institutional forms that are stable, established, and fixed. By narrowing their analytic gaze on such places, which include gayborhoods and bars, scholars use observations about changing public opinions, residential integration, and the closure of nighttime venues to conclude that queer urban and institutional life is in decline. We use queer pop–up events to challenge these dominant arguments about urban sexualities and to advocate instead a “temporary turn” that analyzes the relationship between ephemerality and placemaking. Drawing on interviews with party promoters and participants in Vancouver, our findings show that ephemeral events can have enduring effects. Pop–ups refresh ideas about communal expression, belonging, safety, and the ownership of space among queer–identified people who feel excluded from the gayborhood and its bars. As a case, pop–ups compel scholars to broaden their focus from a preoccupation with permanent places to those which are fleeting, transient, short–lived, and experienced for a moment. Only when we see the city as a collection of temporary spaces can we appreciate how queer people convert creative cultural visions into spatial practices that enable them to express an oppositional ethos and to congregate with, and celebrate, their imagined communities.

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酷儿快闪店：城市生活中的文化创新

对性和空间的研究强调稳定、成熟和固定的地理和制度形式。通过缩小对此类场所（包括同性恋场所和酒吧）的分析目光，学者们通过观察公众舆论的变化、住宅整合和夜间场所的关闭得出结论，酷儿城市和机构生活正在下降。我们使用酷儿快闪事件来挑战这些关于城市性的主导论点，并提倡一种分析短暂性与场所营造之间关系的“临时转向”。通过对温哥华派对发起人和参与者的采访，我们的研究结果表明，短暂的事件可以产生持久的影响。弹出窗口刷新关于公共表达、归属、安全、以及同性恋身份认同的人对空间的所有权，他们感到被排除在 gayborhood 及其酒吧之外。作为一个例子，弹出窗口迫使学者将注意力从对永久场所的关注扩大到转瞬即逝的、短暂的、短暂的和暂时经历的场所。只有当我们将城市视为临时空间的集合时，我们才能理解酷儿如何将创造性的文化愿景转化为空间实践，使他们能够表达对立的精神，并与他们想象的社区相聚并庆祝。