Tracing the homocapitalist investments in queer tourism and the growing incorporation of LGBTQ+ inclusion into the country’s tourist offer as a global brand, the research interrogates how different forms of access to queer mobility, liberation and economic privilege unfold across different zones of encounter within the landscape of queer tourism in Buenos Aires.

This research traces the circuits of discourse, desire and value through which corporate stances against ‘global homophobia’ are constituted in Kenya, with particular focus on “speculative fictions about the future” (Keeling 2019, 5) that sustain the ‘economic case’ for LGBTQ+ rights and how this intersects with broader world-making projects that aim to turn Nairobi into a city that is ‘open for business’.

The research reflects on the politics of homocapitalism in Brazil, tracing the geo-political effects of queer critiques as they travel. Drawing from fieldwork conducted at corporate LGBTQ+ events in São Paulo, I offer a transnational queer materialist perspective on homonormativity, reading it less as an expression of gay privilege/normality and more in terms of the continued operation of settler colonial logics – both historical and ongoing – through which European/US neoliberal projects unfold in Brazil.