While much of the scholarly discourse surrounding queerness in the built environment (most notably Aaron Betsky’s seminal 1997 book Queer Space: Architecture and Same Sex Desire) can be-and is often-critiqued for centering the perspectives of cisgender, white, gay men. It appears that the idea of what queer space is or means continously gets rehashed in academia. How does one define what queer space is when the concept of what it means to be queer itself is beyond categorization, definition, and, ideally, commodification? Just as there is no single representation of what it’s like to be queer, or experience the world queerly, there is no single style or architectural typology that defines queer space.
But magic is mysterious, hard to pin down.
