Queer subjectivities in hospitality labor

This paper explores the experiences of queer workers in service economy with a focus on hospitality labor. Studies gender, sexuality and labor approached mainstream work as scene compulsory heterosexuality, while literature position has tended to approach terms structural inequalities that prevent from participating market, therefore focused notions diversity inclusion frameworks for understanding how heteronormativity relationships can be overcome. shifts examine subjectivities are enacted within disciplinary requirements labor, way negotiate contest their positioning at work. The situates laboring practices nexus tensions between politics venues, examines We explore normativities shape permissible embodiment show biographical specific inform practices. shows venues enrolled into mode interactive capitalizes biographies, requires highly cultivated relational capacities, repositions site political intervention.