GLBT History Museum: Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members

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In this reading and conversation, architectural historian and author Stathis G. Yeros presents Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice, a book that rethinks cities through the spatial histories of LGBTQ+ communities.

Drawing on archival research and community narratives, the book traces how queer people—often excluded from formal planning and policy—have reshaped urban life during the last fifty years by appropriating of everyday, generic spaces and building informal networks that inform collective resistance.

With case studies from San Francisco’s and Oakland’s rich history of queer placemaking, the discussion will explore the evolution of the Women’s Building of the Bay Area, the impact of gentrification on LGBTQ communities of color and low-income residents, and ongoing struggles to preserve queer spaces as sites of radical possibility rather than commodified nostalgia. How have trans women of color, sex workers, queer youth, and other underrepresented groups created community in hostile urban environments? What can we learn from these histories of resistance as cities continue to change?

The evening will feature a reading from the book, followed by conversation about the past, present, and future of LGBTQ urban spaces and the communities that have fought to claim them.