ABSTRACT
Using Cape Town’s Pink Map as an archive of the socio-cultural construction of space and place, this chapter demonstrates the role of the body in the production and consumption of the tourist/leisure enclave known as De Waterkant in Cape Town, South Africa. The Pink Map offers tourists a cartographic rendering of the city that highlights lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) leisure spaces. In providing LGBT tourists with a curated reading of the ‘pink’ touristic landscape of Cape Town, the Pink Map also demonstrates the role of embodiment in tourism as the sexualised body serves as a surrogate for the city it is meant to cartographically depict. A discursive analysis of the Map’s contents demonstrates how sexually ‘othered’ bodies are used to depict the landscape for aesthetic and material tourist consumption.
