Tag: domesticity

Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London

By Justin Bengry February 26, 2015 Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Interview by Justin Bengry In Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London (Palgrave, 2014), Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis. Peering into bedsits in Notting Hill and squats in Brixton, as well as luxurious abodes in the city’s more affluent districts, Cook offers a queer history nuanced […]

Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home

By notcheseditor November 6, 2014 Dispatches, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Stephen Vider Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along? This was the question I posed last month as the organizer of The Queerness of Home: Intimacy, Normativity, Domesticity. The symposium, hosted by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, brought together three […]