Research Guides: LGBTQ+ Architecture: Books

Exploring the Library Collection

Please see a selection of relevant library books below.

Additionally, here are some suggested keywords to start searching the library catalog.

Try pairing one of these LGBTQ+ keywords...	...with one of these built environment topics.
LGBTQ Queer Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Gender	Space Architecture Urbanism Urban Neighborhood Planning Historic preservation

These are just a few examples of possible searches:

Queer space
Gay neighborhood or Gayborhood
LGBTQ planning

LGBTQ+ Urban Planning

Another Country : queer anti-urbanism by Scott Herring
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H468 2010
Expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond the city limits, investigating the lives of rural queers across the United States, from faeries in the Midwest to lesbian separatist communes on the coast of Northern California.
The Gayborhood : from sexual liberation to cosmopolitan spectacle by Christopher T. Conner (Editor); Daniel Okamura (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 G39 2021
Explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence by Alex Bitterman, Daniel Baldwin Hess, editors.
Call Number: E-book
Examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or gayborhoods) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000.
Planning and LGBTQ Communities by Petra L. Doan (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 76.25 .P58 2015
Planning, when it does consider the needs of LGBTQ neighborhoods, often privileges the needs of white gay men. How can planning adapt to the needs of an increasingly diverse population?
Queering the Interior by Matt Cook (Editor); Andrew Gorman-Murray (Editor); Rosie Cox (Contribution by); Victor Buchli (Contribution by)
Call Number: NA2543.Q44 Q44 2018
Queers in Space by Gordon B. Ingram (Editor); Anne-Marie Bouthillette (Editor); Yolanda Retter (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.25 .Q395 1997
The importance of queer communal spaces as sites of resistance, advocacy, and identity formation.
Queerying Planning by Petra L. Doan (Editor)
Call Number: HT185 .Q44 2011
Historical preservation of LGBT neighborhoods, dismantling heteronormative attitudes in planning, negotiating the boundaries of sexually-charged spaces--among numerous other topics.
Safe Space by Christina B. Hanhardt; Kyung Hyun Kim (Editor); Youngmin Choe (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 76.8 .U5 H37 2013
Studies the effects of public safety initiatives on the formation of historically gay neighborhoods.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
Call Number: HQ 146 .N7 D45 2001
Traces the suppression of sexually-charged spaces along New York's 42nd street in favor of promoting "family values" and commercial tourism. Essentially, why places become boring when you push queer people out.

Queer Theory + Architecture

Building Sex by Aaron Betsky
Call Number: NA 2543 .W65 B48 1995
Relates the construction of the built environment to the construction of gender identity.
Gender Space Architecture by Jane Rendell (Editor); Barbara Penner (Editor); Iain Borden (Editor)
Call Number: NA2543.W65 G46 2000
A collection of essays dealing with, you guessed it: gender, space, and architecture. Mostly concerned with injecting feminism into architectural discourse with a few forays into the relationship between sexuality and space.
Gender Studies in Architecture by Dörte Kuhlmann
Call Number: NA 2543 .W65 K84 2013
Gender. Architecture. What do they have in common? Where do theories overlap?
Queering architecture : methods, practices, spaces, pedagogies by Marko Jobst and Naomi Stead
Call Number: E-book
What does it mean to speak of the "queer" in the field of architecture?
Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed
Call Number: HQ 76.25 .A38 2006
Explores the relationship between sexual "orientation" and our understanding of "orienting" ourselves in time and space.
Queer Space by Aaron Betsky
Call Number: NA2543.H65 B48 1997
Have queer folks created a new architecture? Explorations on the relationship between same-sex desire, spatial design, and material culture.
Stud: Architectures of Masculinity by Joel Sanders (Editor)
Call Number: NA2542.4 .S78 1996
Navigating the role of masculinity in the form and experience of both straight and queer spaces.
Transgender Architectonics by Lucas Crawford
Call Number: HQ77.9 .C73 2020
"This book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement."