But if you want everyone to feel included, you can-and should-hire queer designers.Īlan Buchsbaum’s Apartment, New York Queer Spaces was edited by Adam Nathaniel Furman, a London-based architect-turned-artist-and-designer known for their brightly colored, unapologetic-ally bold public sculptures and Joshua Mardell, a British architectural historian. But for all the diversity highlighted in the book, Queer Spaces makes one thing very clear: You cannot design queer spaces if you’re not queer. Some, like the Bangladeshi park, have been subverted by the queer community others, like the Victorian Pride Center in Melbourne, were created to give LGBTQIA+ a space to come together. Titled Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, the book is a collection of bars, clubs, public parks, community centers, theaters, and private houses that have nothing in common but the queerness of their occupants. A new book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of gay-friendly spaces around the world.
