An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community.
Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides.
With historic, contemporary and speculative examples from around the world, Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong, vibrant, vigorous, and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward, it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives.
Featured spaces include:
Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, London
Category Is Books, Glasgow
Christopher Street, New York
Coppelia, Havana New Sazae, Tokyo ONE Institute for Homophile Studies, Los Angeles
Pop-Up spaces, Dhaka Queer House Party, Online
Santiago Apóstol Cathedral, Managua Trans Memory Archive, Buenos Aires
Victorian Pride Centre, Melbourne
Edited by:
Adam Nathaniel Furman,
Joshua Mardell
Imprint: RIBA Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 250mm,
Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781914124211
ISBN 10: 1914124219
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements About the editors About the contributors Sponsor page Foreword by Olivia Laing Introduction by Adam Nathaniel Furman & Joshua Mardell «DOMESTIC» Train Journey between Premiá de Mar and Barcelona by Ailo Ribas Fonthill Abbey by Whitney Davis Former Knockaloe Internment Camp by Kit Heyam Light Coffin by Alyssa Ueno Plas Newydd by Freya Gowrley The Palaces of Ludwig II by Sean Edgecomb Two Up, Two Down Terrace by Helen Smith A la Ronde by Freya Gowrley A Hijra Guru Ma’s Rooftop by Ruhul Abdin Prospect Cottage by Chris McCormack Holy Trinity Church by Kit Heyam Hotel Gondolin by Facundo Ravuelta Villa Lysis by Robert Aldrich ‘Miss Green’, ‘Ye Olde Communists’ Rest’ and ‘Riversdale’ by Jane Stevenson Brief by Robert Aldrich Sissinghurst by Jane Stevenson Yannnis Tsarouchis’ House by Andreas Angelidakis Finella by Elizabeth Darling Mårbacka by Katarina Bonnevier Millthorpe by Helen Smith Thomas Barrett’s Lee Priory by Matthew M Reeve Rehovot by Doron von Beider «COMMUNAL» Former Guildford Hotel by Kit Heyam New Sazae by Takeshi Dylan Sadachi Taormina by Robert Aldrich Vespasiana by Ailo Ribas Factory Nightclub by Andreas Angelidakis Black Lesbian and Gay Centre by Veronica McKenzie Alan Buchsbaum's Office by Ivan Munuera Theatrón by León Daniel The Cave of Harmony by Elizabeth Darling Haven for Artists by Nour Hamade Elephant by Isola Tong Queer Space by Andy Summers Banos Finisterre by Emiliano Pastrana Dragon Men by Takeshi Dylan Sadachi Carolina Youth Action Project by Seb Choe The Locker Room Project by Jackson Davidov The Kloset Yuri Book Club by Nichapat Sanunsilp Club Kali by DJ Ritu & Lo Marshall El Hangar by Regner Ramos Frenz-Frenzy by Isola Tong Women's Anarchist Nuisance Café by Sebastian Buser Bachillerato Mocha Celis by Facundo Ravuelta Kitty Su by Ekam Singh Stalled! Airport Prototype by JSA/MIXdesign Circo Bar by Regner Ramos Loverbar by Regner Ramos Temple à l’Amitié’ by Jane Stevenson Category Is Books by Andy Summers Today X Future by Isola Tong Taprobane by Robert Aldrich Casa I by Facundo Ravuelta Inflation Nightclub by Timothy Moore & John Tanner Royal Vauxhall Tavern by Ben Campkin True Blue Studio by Nichapat Sanunsilp Milner Park Hotel by Ian Mangenga Campy Bar by Takeshi Dylan Sadachi Centro Cultural Guanuca by Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon & Helen Dixon Palladium Nightclub by Ivan Munuero Café ’t Mandje by Jeroen van Dijk FUTUR:ST by Isola Tong Odd bird theatre by Ekam Singh Queer Space by David Eskenazi Pop-up spaces for the middle/upper class by Ruhul Abdin Museo Experimental del Eco by León Daniel London Lesbian and Gay Centre by Ben Campkin Sagitario by Alexander Auris «PUBLIC» MASTERplano by Vítor Lagoeiro Bishopsgate Institute by Stefan Dickers El último vagón by León Daniel Queer House Party by Lo Marshall Caminito Verde by Sergio Galaz Garcia Christopher Street by Sean Edgecomb Coppelia by Ivan Munuera The Norfolk Arms by Helen Smith The Homomonument by Jeroen van Dijk Trans Memory Archive by Facundo Ravuelta Can Sanpere by Ailo Ribas Floreat Beach Kiosk by Timothy Moore & John Tanner Santiago Apóstol Cathedral by Aparecida Arguello XXX Park by Ruhul Abdin Museum of Transology by E-J Scott Queer Shophouses in Colonial Malaya by Soon Tzu Speechley Museo Q, Bogota by Michael Andrés Forero Parra Glorieta de Insurgentes by Sergio Galaz Garcia Former Central V.I. Lenin Museum by Yevgeniy Fiks Victorian Pride Centre by Timothy Moore & Nicholas Braun Aterro do Flamengo by Ben Campkin One Institute for Homophile Studies by David Eskenazi Sappho Islands by MYCKET Comparsa Drag by Facundo Ravuelta Index Endnotes Image credits
Adam Nathaniel Furman is an artist and designer who trained in architecture, and who works in spatial design and art of all scales from video and prints, to large-scale public artworks, architecture, architecturally integrated ornament, as well as products, furniture, interiors, publishing and academia. Joshua Mardell is an architectural historian, and is currently an Associate Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of York and Research Collections Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He read for his PhD at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
Reviews for Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories
‘This magnificent book reveals the near-unbelievable ingenuity, courage and skill of queer people in creating conditions for themselves … it is a luminous queer archive-cum-party in its own right, avowedly diverse, multiple and full of life.’ – Olivia Laing ‘A rich stew of the strange, the wonderful, and the queer.’ – Aaron Betsky
