Salvatore Monaco is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the Free University of Bozen (Italy), where he teaches ‘Sociology’. He has been a researcher with Osservatorio LGBT and OUT (Osservatorio Universitario sul Turismo) of the University of Naples Federico II for several years. His research interests include urban sociology, tourism studies, gender and LGBT+ studies, and focus particularly on the questions of how spatial organizations create and reproduce inequalities for vulnerable social categories. His current research investigates how territorial contexts influence the life chances of people and how places and geographies structure socio-economic opportunities with a specific focus on intersections related to identities, genders, sexual orientations, and generations.