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Book SynopsisAn 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
Trade Review‘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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
