Critical commentary: Sexualities landscapes beyond homonormativity

•Reviews the tension between queering geography and writing geographies of sexualities.•Analyzes the limits of homonormativity as a geographical framework for analysis.•Highlights new directions in the study of geographies of sexualities.

In this commentary, I reflect on the contribution of this special issue of Geoforum to the sexuality and space literature. I begin by situating it at the interface between critical queer geographies and geographies of sexualities. I then highlight three important themes that (re)emerge from these contributions that point to both continuities with past research and new directions for the study of geographies of sexualities.