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Article: Flocking Together. (Books).(Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex)(Book Review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex
Edited by Stephen Clift, Michael Luongo, and Carry Callister Continuum Books. 280 pages, $29.95 (paper)
THE 1969 movie comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium depicted and promoted the growing popularity of whirlwind European travel for middle-class Americans. While hardly a landmark work of cinema--it starred Suzanne Pleshette and Norman "Mr. Roper" Fell--the film's title would become a catchphrase for the "greatest hits" mode of tourism. Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex is a thought-provoking collection of academic papers on historic, cultural, and economic issues related to GLBT leisure travel, but ...