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The gaybourhood gave LGBTQ+ muni the space they urgently need to simply be themselv. But our ci should be built such a way that everyone feels at home * queer spaces *
The very ia of the closet is rife wh ntrasts, vokg both terr and exterr, storage and room, pri and reprsn, homo- and heterosexualy.
Durg the Gay Liberatn movement the Uned Stat, the slogan “Out of the closet and to the streets” was emblazoned on buttons, T-shirts, flyers and untls other kds of highly visible pulp material. Hence s later nnectn wh the veilg of homosexualy. If the closet is divisible om homosexualy, the washroom is pably lked to transgenr inty.
Though there are untls opns on who thew the first brick — or if one was even thrown — durg the two nights of rtg that followed a particularly btal and unexpected police raid on the Greenwich Village gay bar, ’s a pellg and endurg myth. More recently, the travelg neon-soaked exhibn “Cisg Paviln: Archecture, Gay Sex and Cisg Culture” examed, as s tle suggts, the material stctur tertwed wh sex — om historic cisg s to the implitn of apps like Grdr. The two views ntrast the ias that people really are gay while simultaneoly prervg that sire is herently unstable.