Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city.
Queer Premises offers evidence for how London's diverse LGBTQ+ populations have embedded themselves into urban spaces, systems and resources. It sets out to understand how, across their different material dimensions, bars, cafes, nightclubs, pubs, community centres have been imagined, created and sustained. From the 1980s to the present, Campkin asks how, where, and why these venues have been established, how they operate and the purposes they serve, what challenges they face and why they close down.
Table of contents
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Queer Premises
Chapter 1 Queer infrastructure
Chapter 2 Perverted purposes
Chapter 3 Mainstreaming pride
Chapter 4 Rupture and repair
Chapter 5 Seeking closure
Chapter 6 Sui generis
Chapter 7 Macho city
Chapter 8 Pandemic premises
About the author
Acknowledgments
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