Queering Urbanism, Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice

Author

Yeros; Stathis G.

Year

2024

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-52039-451-3

Link

Last Update

30-Sep-2025

Keywords

Gender Studies ; Urban Studies ; Public Policy & Administration ; Architecture & Architectural History

Description

The San Francisco LGBT Center, a nonprofit organization that provides employment and financial support, referrals, and youth services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, along with space for cultural events, is housed in a complex of two buildings (fig. 1). The larger, completed in 2002, is a glass box, its interior visible to passersby. The smaller is a renovated 1894 Victorian three-story building painted in bold, saturated purple, decorated with rainbow flags. The dialogue between two styles, one representing modernity and the other tradition, is an architectural compromise. Initially, the center had planned to demolish the Victorian building and...