Queer Spaces

Name: Queer Spaces
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781914124211
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An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories

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Summary

Queer Spaces explores the diverse and vibrant locations where LGBTQIA+ communities have gathered throughout history and across the globe. From an independent bookshop in Glasgow to a cathedral in ruins in Managua, and an ice cream parlour in Havana preferring strawberry as the queerest flavour, this richly illustrated volume showcases stories of real and imagined spaces. Editors Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell bring together contributors who highlight places that range from educational and institutional to re-appropriated and speculative, celebrating the strength and perseverance of queer life and envisioning future safe havens.
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Ideal for readers interested in LGBTQIA+ history, culture, and community, as well as those who appreciate artfully curated visual and narrative explorations of place and identity.

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. This lavishly illustrated 'atlas' celebrates over 90 queer spaces.

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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

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Olivia Laing praises the book as a “luminous queer archive-cum-party,” lauding its diversity and vibrancy that reveal the ingenuity and courage of queer communities. Aaron Betsky describes it as a “rich stew of the strange, the wonderful, and the queer,” heralding its celebration of queer spaces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914124211

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Adam Nathaniel Furman
Edited by Joshua Mardell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.