ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates in detail the complexity and problematic nature of the term 'LGBT community'. The idea of a plurality of communities, recognising diversity within and between LGBT people, is valued more positively, as it suggests that not all LGBT people belong to one large homogenous (and harmonious) group. Conceptualisations of an LGBT 'us' may be as problematic as a monolithic 'them', given some experiences of discrimination, such as ageism, biphobia, (dis)ableism, racism and transphobia from and among LGBT people. A desire for safety and wanting to feel comfortable and at ease was often used to explain why LGBT people 'magnetise' towards each other. The idea of Pride events as temporary spaces, or a temporary claiming of space create or support feelings of community and facilitate time-limited and spatially specific safeties and freedoms not always experienced elsewhere.
