1st Edition
Queer Spaces An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
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
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
Ailo Ribas
Fonthill Abbey
Whitney Davis
Former Knockaloe Internment Camp
Kit Heyam
Light Coffin
Alyssa Ueno
Plas Newydd
Freya Gowrley
The Palaces of Ludwig II
Sean Edgecomb
Two Up, Two Down Terrace
Helen Smith
A la Ronde
Freya Gowrley
A Hijra Guru Ma’s Rooftop
Ruhul Abdin
Prospect Cottage
Chris McCormack
Holy Trinity Church
Kit Heyam
Hotel Gondolin
Facundo Ravuelta
Villa Lysis
Robert Aldrich
‘Miss Green’, ‘Ye Olde Communists’ Rest’ and ‘Riversdale’
Jane Stevenson
Brief
Robert Aldrich
Sissinghurst
Jane Stevenson
Yannnis Tsarouchis’ House
Andreas Angelidakis
Finella
Elizabeth Darling
Mårbacka
Katarina Bonnevier
Millthorpe
Helen Smith Thomas
Barrett’s Lee Priory
Matthew M Reeve Rehovot and Doron von Beider
«COMMUNAL» Former Guildford Hotel
Kit Heyam
New Sazae
Takeshi Dylan
Sadachi Taormina
Robert Aldrich
Vespasiana
Ailo Ribas
Factory Nightclub
Andreas Angelidakis
Black Lesbian and Gay Centre
Veronica McKenzie Alan
Buchsbaum's Office
Ivan Munuera
Theatrón
León Daniel
The Cave of Harmony
Elizabeth Darling
Haven for Artists
Nour Hamade
Elephant
Isola Tong
Queer Space
Andy Summers Banos
Finisterre
Emiliano Pastrana
Dragon Men
Takeshi Dylan Sadachi
Carolina Youth Action Project
Seb Choe
The Locker Room Project
Jackson Davidov
The Kloset Yuri Book Club
Nichapat Sanunsilp
Club Kali
DJ Ritu & Lo Marshall
El Hangar
Regner Ramos
Frenz-Frenzy
Isola Tong
Women's Anarchist Nuisance Café
Sebastian Buser Bachillerato
Mocha Celis
Facundo Ravuelta
Kitty Su
Ekam Singh
Stalled! Airport Prototype
JSA/MIXdesign
Circo Bar
Regner Ramos
Loverbar
Regner Ramos
Temple à l’Amitié’
Jane Stevenson
Category Is Books
Andy Summers
Today X Future
Isola Tong
Taprobane
Robert Aldrich
Casa I
Facundo Ravuelta
Inflation Nightclub
Timothy Moore & John Tanner
Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Ben Campkin
True Blue Studio
Nichapat Sanunsilp
Milner Park Hotel
Ian Mangenga
Campy Bar
Takeshi Dylan Sadachi
Centro Cultural Guanuca
Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon & Helen Dixon
Palladium Nightclub
Ivan Munuero
Café ’t Mandje
Jeroen van
DijkFUTUR:ST
Isola Tong
Odd bird theatre
Ekam Singh
Queer Space
David Eskenazi
Pop-up spaces for the middle/upper class
Ruhul Abdin
Museo Experimental del Eco
León Daniel
London Lesbian and Gay Centre
Ben Campkin
Sagitario
Alexander Auris
«PUBLIC» MASTERplano
Vítor Lagoeiro
Bishopsgate Institute
Stefan Dickers
El último vagón
León Daniel
Queer House Party
Lo Marshall Caminito
Verde
Sergio Galaz Garcia
Christopher Street
Sean Edgecomb
Coppelia
Ivan Munuera
The Norfolk Arms
Helen Smith
The Homomonument
Jeroen van Dikj
Trans Memory Archive
Facundo Ravuelta
Can Sanpere
Ailo Ribas Floreat
Beach Kiosk
Timothy Moore & John Tanner
Santiago Apóstol Cathedral
Aparecida Arguello
XXX Park
Ruhul Abdin
Museum of Transology
E-J Scott
Queer Shophouses in Colonial Malaya
Soon Tzu
Speechley Museo Q, Bogota
Michael Andrés
Forero Parra Glorieta de Insurgentes
Sergio Galaz Garcia
Former Central V.I. Lenin Museum
Yevgeniy Fiks
Victorian Pride Centre
Timothy Moore & Nicholas Braun
Aterro do Flamengo
Ben Campkin
One Institute for Homophile Studies
David Eskenazi
Sappho Islands
MYCKET
Comparsa Drag
Facundo Ravuelta
Biography
Adam Nathaniel Furman is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Design Museum, the Sir John Soane’s Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Adam has lectured at the RIBA, Harvard GSD, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Museum of Art, amongst others.
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.