Whither queer world cities? Homo-entrepreneurialism and beyond

This paper contains critical commentary on the emergence and future research tasks for queer world cities, a cross-disciplinary field of inquiry positioned at the intersection of urban globalization studies and the geographies of sexualities. It seeks to advance the concept of homoentrepreneurialism in order to understand the sexualized worlding of cities under the hegemony of neoliberal urbanism. Recent developments in Buenos Aires and other Latin American cities are used as illustrative examples of how sexual diversity and cosmopolitan tolerance are increasingly interwoven with entrepreneurial quests to upgrade the global competitiveness of a city and thereby attract tourists, capital, and a select group of (homo-)sexual citizens. The paper takes critiques of geographical elitism seriously in its interpretation of homonormativity, but relationality and geographically uneven development prevail over reparatory substitution. Commentary on research projects from other world regions is also provided, and a research agenda is proposed.