ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. This book shows how LGBT lives and activisms are informed by city imaginings, in this case, the 'liberal', 'tolerant' city that forms the basis of the idealisations of Brighton. It explores the presumption of tolerance and acceptance for all LGBT people in Brighton and looks at how this contrasts with lived experiences of the city. This book highlights the importance of critiques of normativities, before attending to the possibilities of ordinariness. It argues for a politics of ordinariness, which seeks to create common place lives in ways that are not necessarily normalising. The chapter outlines how discussions of normalisation have critiqued LGBT equalities and the 'gains' of legislative change. It addresses the possibilities of ordinary activisms in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
