Olivier Gay Interr Dign - Hoe Chelsea, London

Contents:

• OLIVIER GAY INTERR DIGN
• OLIVIER GAY ARCHECTURE
• HOMONORMATIVE ARCHECTURE & QUEER SPACE : THE EVOLUTN OF GAY BARS AND CLUBS MONTRéAL

OLIVIER GAY INTERR DIGN

Reactg to a perceived weakeng of the 1970s homosexual liberatn and lbian femist movements, the queer movement was ially also fuelled by renewed homophobia followg the begng of the AIDS epimic. The term was ed by Tera De Lretis her troductory say to the "Queer Theory: Lbian and Gay Sexuali" issue (1991) of the femist journal Differenc ( Lretis 1991) to scribe a radil rensirg of sexualy outsi the prevailg dichotomy of the heterosexual matrix, reference to Judh Butler’s term. Emergg parallel to queer activism, but also spired by femism and reactg to genr studi and gay and lbian studi, philosophers, lerary theorists and historians such as Butler (1990), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1990, 1985), and David Halper (Halper 1990), part spired by Michel Fouult’s work on sexualy (Fouult 1976-1984), opened up a new way of thkg about genr and sexual intifitn and performance, beyond inti (unrstood as tegori of dividuals) and acts ( this se sexual practic).

OLIVIER GAY ARCHECTURE

It clus, among others, gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people; normalizg inty tegori and movg away om radil activist movements.

Thkg about how genr and sexualy play a role the analysis of the built environment is however far om homogeneo.

A first approach unrstands queer space as gay or lbian terrory marted om heteronormative terrory, as the physil maniftatn of a gay muny.

HOMONORMATIVE ARCHECTURE & QUEER SPACE : THE EVOLUTN OF GAY BARS AND CLUBS MONTRéAL

The earlit approach, is exemplified by Manuel Castells’ much-ced study of the Castro district San Francis (Castells 1983) or Aaron Betsky’s well-known Queer Space: Archecture and Same-Sex Dire (1997), a study of spac ed and signed by (mostly) gay men.