Regner Ramos is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by experimental research methods, shifting between model-making, drawing, and performative writing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of informa journal and the architecture Editor at Glass magazine, and Co-Director of Wet Hard Agency. His current research project, "Cürtopia: Queer Maps for Puerto Rico", is funded by FIPI.

Sharif Mowlabocus is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Gaydar Culture (2010) and his forthcoming book, Interrogating Homonormativity, explores the British gay male culture in the 'post-equalities' era.

Introduction 1

REGNER RAMOS AND SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

1 San Juan queer: mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities 14

REGNER RAMOS

2 A Kindr Grindr: moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire 33

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

3 Learning to become an extremophile: trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin 48

GED RIBAS-GOODY

4 Fluid territories: intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces 66

MABIA CAMARGO AND EDUARDO MARTINS

5 Queer infrastructures: LGBTQ+ networks and urban governance in global London 82

BEN CAMPKIN

6 Digital dogma: relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs 102

KHALIDEN ALSALEH

Contents

7 The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA: reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL 117

JODY LIU

8 Queering the Map: on designing digital queer space 133

LUCAS LAROCHELLE

9 Transformismo: a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago's queer and Latinx communities 148

LILIANA MACIAS

10 Communicating 'race' in a digitized gay China 162

OSCAR TIANYANG ZHOU

11 The Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond: instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the 'Trans Debate' in Britain 179

LO MARSHALL

12 Hear, Here: preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin 198

ARIEL BEAUJOT AND VÍCTOR M. MACÍAS-GONZÁLEZ