... how gay men may feel in these openly gay spaces and how they may alter their behaviour when in these areas compared to when in 'non gay' areas. The third part of my essay will focus on the geographies of lesbianism. There has not been the emergence of lesbian communities on the scale of gay communities and I intend to show the geography of lesbians and how they respond to the heterosexualisation of everyday space in more subtle ways creating multiple sexual identities. Until recently, sexuality was ignored in geography. This is because it was seen as a private issue. However, everyday space is implicitly heterosexual. It is impossible to think of sexuality today as a 'private issue' as we are exposed to people's sexuality (mainly heterosexuality) everyday. For a heterosexual individual, the notion that all space is 'heterosexually dominated' (Myslick, 1996, 159) may be invisible to them however ...

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