Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories
Co-edited by Adam Nathaniel and Josh Mardell, and published by RIBA Publishing, "Queer Spaces, An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories" is a landmark book that tells the stories of queer spaces all around the world, and over the past two hundred years in an accessible and image-rich manner, with contributions by dozens of queer figures writing about spaces that have great meaning to them, and a foreword by Olivia Laing.
The chapters “Kitty Su” and “Oddbird Theatre” tell the story of two queer spaces in New Delhi, one a nightclub and the other a now elapsed community theatre.
“…‘Open’, as the architects from Studio Juggernaut describe it, was not merely the brief but the philosophy with which Oddbird Theatre was conceived, and the eventual mantra with which it was run. An open space. A space for everyone. In the years it was running, it was an active magnet for queer artists and performers from around India and the world, including the likes of Alok V Menon and plays like Contempt.”
“Queer people, throughout the world and across time, have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces.”
Queer Spaces in the press: The Guardian, Dezeen, Archdaily
