ABSTRACT
The chapter illustrates Taylor's argument that lesbian identities and places are unstable political, geographical and historical concepts, each provoking the contestation of the other, and producing ongoing upheaval. It considers queer, lesbian and trans identities and intersectionality certainly highlights the complexities and complications of everyday experience across various places and the challenges these pose to understandings of the self. Psychology and sociological scholarship suggest that changing historical circumstances are fomenting an intergenerational gap in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and queer communities with potentially negative impacts for coalition politics and the preservation of community memory, culture and histories. Ford's chapter on a queer rural film festival (QFFF) brings much needed attention to emerging divisions within lesbian and queer women's communities sometimes grounded in intergenerational divides. Research in lesbian geographies has much to contribute to thinking through the distinctive implications this might have for political and social relations within lesbian and queer women's communities.
