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Queer space (Working draft): General resources

A chronology of resources on LGBTQ spatial practices, and queer theory from the 1980s to present

Specialized resources on related topics

1960s

Sontag, Susan, "Notes on camp," in Against interpretation, and other essays, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, PN771.S62 2001

 

1970s

Humphreys, Laud, Tearoom trade : impersonal sex in public places; enlarged edition with a retrospect on ethical issues, Aldine Transaction, HQ76.H78 2008 (originally published 1975)

 

1980s

Abercrombie, Stanley, “Responding to AIDS: Design firms face a new challenge in employee relations,” Interior design, August 1988, p. 204-205

AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism,” October, #43, Winter 1987 (Theme issue; PDFs available via Jstor)

Crimp, Douglas, “Mourning and militancy,” October, #51, Winter 1989, p. 3–18 (PDF available via Jstor)

Foucault, Michel, “Heterotopias,” AA Files, #69, 2014, p. 18-22 (originally published in 1984; PDF available via Jstor)

Soja, Edward W., Postmodern geographies : the reassertion of space in critical social theory, Verso, G70.S62 1989

 

1990s

Abelove, Henry, et al. (Editors), The Lesbian and gay studies reader, Routledge, HQ76.25.L48 1993

Adams, Elizabeth Tarpley, “Making the Sprawl Vivid: Narrative and Queer Los Angeles,” Western Folklore, v. 58, #2, 1999, p. 175–193 (PDF available via Jstor)

Betsky, Aaron, Building sex : men, women, architecture, and the construction of sexuality, William Morrow, 1995, NA2543.W65B48 1995

Betsky, Aaron, Queer space : architecture and same-sex desire, William Morrow & Co., NA2543.H65 B48 1997

Blake, Nayland, In a different light : visual culture, sexual identity, queer practice, City Lights Books, NX652.G3815 1995

Butler, Judith, Gender trouble, Routledge, HQ1154 .B88 2006 (original published 1990)

Colomina, Beatriz & Jennifer Bloomer, Sexuality & space, Princeton Architectural Press, NX650.S8 S48 1992

Crimp, Douglas, AIDS demo graphics, Bay Press, RA644.A25C75 1990

Crout, Durham, “Hearing Aids,” ANY: Architecture New York, #4, 1994, p. 40–41 (PDF available via Jstor)

Davis, Mike, City of quartz, Verso, HN80 .L7D38 1990

Delany, Samuel R., Times Square red, Times Square blue, New York University Press, HQ146. N7D45 1999

Ferguson, Russell, Out there: marginalization and contemporary cultures, MIT Press, NX180.S6O97 1990

Fuss, Diana (Editor), Inside/out : lesbian theories, gay theories, Routledge, HQ76.25.I58 1991

Horne, Peter, et al. (Editors), Outlooks : Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures, Routledge, 1996 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Ingram, Yolanda Retter, et al. (Editors) Queers in space : communities, public places, sites of resistance, Bay Press, HQ76.25.Q395 1997

Kaiser, Charles, The gay metropolis : 1940-1996, Houghton Mifflin, HQ76.3.U52 N486 1997

Leap, William L. (Editor), Public sex/gay space, Columbia University Press, HQ76.P8 1999

Livingston, Jennie, Paris is burning [Blu-ray videorecording],, Media Shelf: HQ76.2.U52N535 2020 (Movie originally released 1990)

McCormick, Kathleen. “The Toll of silence : AIDS and the profession,” Landscape architecture, 1993 Dec., v.83, n.12, p.68-70

One National Gay & Lesbian Archives (since 1994),

Reed, Christopher, “Imminent domain: queer space in the built environment,” Art Journal, Winter 1996, p. 64-70 (PDF available via Jstor)

Robbins, Mark, Angles of incidence, Princeton Architectural Press, NA737.R55A4 1992

Sanders, Joel (Editor), Stud : architectures of masculinity, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2542.4 .S78 1996

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, The Epistemology of the closet, University of California Press, PS374.H63S42 2008 (originally published 1990)

Slatin, Peter D., “When AIDS comes to the office,” Architectural record, March 1994 Mar, p. 26-27

Stone, Allucquère Rosanne, The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age, MIT Press, QA76.9.C66S883 1996

Stone, Allucquère Rosanne, “Will the real body please stand up?” in Michael Benedikt (Editor), Cyberspace: the first steps, MIT Press, QC173.59.S65C93 1992

Urbach Henry, “Spatial rubbing: the Zone,” Sites, # 25, 1993, p. 90-95

Willis A., "Architecture for the AIDS crisis: a bibliography," Architronic: the electronic journal of architecture, v. 2, #1, 1993

 

2000s

Ahmen, Sara, Queer phenomenology: orientations, objects, others, Duke University Press, HQ76.25.A38 2006

Ahrentzen, Sherry, “The space between the studs: feminism and architecture,” Signs, Autumn 2003, p.179-206

Bordowitz, Gregg, The AIDS crisis is ridiculous and other writings : 1986-2003, MIT Press, RC606.55.B67 A5 2004

Chisholm, Dianne, Queer constellations : subcultural space in the wake of the city, University of Minnesota Press, 2004 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Faderman, Lillian & Stuart Timmons, Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians, Basic Books, HQ76.3.U52C24 2006

Florida, Richard L., The rise of the creative class : and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life, Basic Books, HD53 .F653 2004 (originally published 2002. See especially “The Gay Index”, p. 255-8)

Haggerty, George E. & Molly McGarry (Editors), A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, John Wiley & Sons, 2007 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Halberstam, Jack/Judith, In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives, New York University Press, HQ75.5.H335 2005

Hankin, Kelly, Girls in the back room : looking at the Lesbian bar, University of Minnesota Press, 2002 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Higgs, David (Editor), Queer Sites : Gay Urban Histories Since 1600, Routledge, 2002 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles : and the making of modern politics, University of California Press, 2007 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Johnston, Lynda, & Robyn Longhurst, Space, place, and sex : geographies of sexualities, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Kenney, Moira, Mapping gay L.A. : the intersection of place and politics, Temple University Press, HQ76.8.U5 K466 2001

Lim, Jason & Kath Browne (Editors), Geographies of sexualities : theory, practices and politics, Routledge, 2007 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Muñoz, José Esteban, Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity, New York: New York University Press, HQ76.25.M86 2019 (Originally published 2009)

Murphy, Kevin D., “‘Secure from All Intrusion’: Heterotopia, Queer Space, and the Turn‐of‐the‐Twentieth‐Century American Resort,” Winterthur Portfolio, v. 43, no. 2/3, 2009, p. 185–228 (PDF available via Jstor)

Outfest Legacy Project (since 2005)

Romanow, Rebecca Fine, The Postcolonial body in queer space and time, Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2006 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Watson, Shayne Elizabeth, Preserving the tangible remains of San Francisco's lesbian community in North Beach, 1933 to 1960, USC, 2009 (M.A. in Preservation thesis) (Full-text via USC)

 

2010s

Adams, Annmarie, “Sex and the Single Building: The Weston Havens House, 1941—2001,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, v. 17, #1, 2010, p. 82–97 (PDF available via Jstor)

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., ONE Archive & Prestel, N6538.M4A95 2017

Baker, Gilbert, Rainbow warrior : my life in color, Chicago Review Press, HQ75.8.B345 B35 2019

Bolton, Andrew, et al., Camp : notes on fashion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BH301.C36B65 2019

Campbell, Andrew Raymond, Queer X design : 50 years of signs, symbols, banners, logos, and graphic art of LGBTQ, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, N8217.E6C36 2019

Chen, Mel Y., Animacies: biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect, Duke University Press, P240.65.C44 2012

Crawford, Lucas, Transgender architectonics : the shape of change in modernist space, Ashgate, HQ77.9 .C73 2015

Doan, Petra (editor), Planning and LGBTQ communities : the need for inclusive queer spaces, Routledge, HQ76.25 .P58 2015

Doan, Petra (editor), Queerying planning: challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practices, Ashgate, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos, “Organizing the Queer Space: Squats, Horizontality and Do-It-Yourself,” in Queer Festivals, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2018, p. 53–76 (ebook available from Jstor)

Getsy, David J. (Editor), Queer (Documents of contemporary art), MIT Press, NX180.H6Q44 2016

Ghaziani, Amin, There Goes the Gayborhood?, Princeton University Press, 2014 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Halberstam, Jack/Judith, The queer art of failure, Duke University Press, BD175.H33 2011

Herring, Scott, Another country: queer anti-urbanism, New York University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Howard, Clayton, The closet and the cul-de-sac: the politics of sexual privacy in Northern California, University of Pennsylvania Press, JC596.2.U5 H69 2019

James, Scott, “There goes the gayborhood,” New York Times, June 21, 2017 (full-text available via nytimes.com)

Keeling, Kara, Queer times, black futures, New York: New York University Press, HQ76.27.A37K44 2019

Kries, Mateo, et al. (Editors), Night fever : designing club culture, 1960-today, Vitra Design Museum, NK2195.N55N54 2018

Lord, Catherine & Richard Meyer, Art & queer culture, Phaidon, N8217.H67L67 2019 

Mitchell, Allyson & Cait McKinney (Editors), Inside Killjoy's Kastle : dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings, University of British Columbia Press, N6545.65.I56I57 2019

Preciado, Paul B., Countersexual manifesto, Columbia University Press, HQ12.P7313 2018

Reed, Christopher, Art and homosexuality : a history of ideas, Oxford University Press, NX180.H6R44 2011

Williams, Richard J., Sex and buildings: modern architecture and the sexual revolution, Reaktion Books, NA2543.S6 W55 2013

“Working queer,” Log, #41, Fall 2017 (theme issue)

 

2020s

Bordowitz, Gregg, Some styles of masculinity, Triple Canopy, RC606.55.B67 A4 2021

Furman, Adam Nathaniel & Joshua Mardell, Queer spaces: an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places and stories, RIBA Publishing, HQ76.25 .Q93 2022

Queer Students of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,  Disappearing Queer Spaces, QSAPP (Columbia University), 2022 (ebook)

Rio, Malcolm, "Architecture is burning: an urbanism of queer kinship in ballroom culture," Thresholds, Vol.48, 2020, p.122-132 (PDF)

Souhami, Diana, No modernism without lesbians, Head of Zeus, N6848.5.M63 S684 2020

Vider, Stephen, The queerness of home : gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II, University of Chicago Press, HQ73 .V53 2021

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