What does “home” mean to queer people?
London’s Museum of the Home is creating a celebration of queer domesticity.
For our podcast – How To Date Men – we spoke with the museum’s participation officer, Aurelien Enjalbert, about the project.
In the conversation, we talk about the power of representation, the challenge of illustrating diversity, and why it’s important to have a point of view when showcasing the experience of LGBTQ people.
The museum is running a crowdfunding campaign to help uncover stories of queer domesticity and create a queer home in their galleries.
The online donation campaign is raising funds to acquire the objects needed to create new room sets which will explore making and finding home in London in the 2000s.
Donors to the campaign will be rewarded with tea towels, badges and prints from LGBTQ artists, as well as invitations to private tours and the preview event of the new rooms.
The planned celebration of queer domesticity is intended to recognise the contribution by queer people to the life, culture, and politics of London.
The “queer home” that will be constructed within the gallery will tell the story of Alex, Sara, and Ashley – residents of an ex-council flat in area of London known as Hackney. The installation will showcase a snapshot of their daily lives from the era of the 2000s – a time when significant progress was made for LGBTQ people in the UK in terms of legal rights but also treatment options for HIV.
Find out more about the queer domesticity project at the Museum of the Home