Queer premises : LGBTQ+ venues in London since the 1980s / Ben Campkin.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

©2023

xv, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"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 space, systems and resources. It sets out to understand how, across their different material dimensions, bars, cafés, nightclubs, pubs, community centres, and hybrids of these typologies, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Campkin, Ben. Queer premises. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

English

October 09, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268) and index.