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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Domínguez Ruiz, Ignacio Elpidio author Mancha Cáceres, Olga Inmaculada author Pichardo Galán, José Ignacio author 2025-10-22T07:48:46Z 2025-10-22T07:48:46Z 2023-06-16 2025-10-22T07:48:46Z Chueca, in Madrid, is Spain’s most well-known gaybourhood, a significant space for both local and national LGBTQ individuals and activist movements, as well as for the Spanish and European LGBTQ tourist circuits. The COVID 19 pandemic hit hard in a neighbourhood already heavily disputed among arguments of touristification and tourist accommodation, as tourist-oriented businesses began closing and other, more resident-oriented ones transformed themselves to survive the year 2020. Drawing from ethnographic research undertaken from 2019 to early 2021, this article analyses different experiences and expectations of recovery among local professionals, mostly business owners from Chueca itself. The opposition between a return to business-as-usual and a revolution towards a more humane or sustainable tourism, on the one hand, and an already conflicted debate over the nature of the neighbourhood, on the other one, interacts with the wider situation of urban tourist destinations in Western Europe and with the practices of discourses unveiled in Chueca. The article argues for the pandemic’s role as a catalyst for pre-existing conflicts, as local and global processes intertwine. Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-2023 Estudis lèsbics i gais Gentrificació COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- 2023 Gay and lesbian studies Gentrification Returning to the gaybourhood: Expectations of resilience and recovery of Chueca (Madrid) after the COVID-19 pandemic