Marianne Blidon defended the first Ph.D. in gay and lesbian geographies in France.  Based on interviews, vernacular literature and an online survey, she demonstrated that tension between discretion – as a norm- and the need to meet peers is less frequently managed by distance from family environments, more frequently by a constant, daily, reappraisal of social distance. She focused on urban/rural opposition, LGB migratory paths, representations and daily practices, scales of queer experiences. She has published in special issues on LGBT, gender and feminist issues. Currently, she works on special issues about geographies of trauma and feminist geographies.  Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban geography, economic geography, social geography, information/communications geography, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history.