Gay interiors

Excluding someone from the possibilty that they can throw a room together just because it bends gender norms is just as absurd as trusting a random man with a lisp to do it adequately. A friend of mine is the daughter of a now deceased highly renowned male interior designer.

Tasteful friends, the gay interior to end all gay interiors

I think a lot of it does come down to interior decorating being a safe field. Also, gay men have permission to go into such a field. For all we know, just as many straight men may be gifted in interior decorating, but are afraid to express that talent because its not butch enough.

How gay men defined 20th-century interior design

Such a repertoire of signs, making visible the invisible, is the basis of any representation of gay people involving visual recognition, the requirement of recogniability in turn entailing that of typicality. Though not indispensable, typification is a near necessity for the representation of gayness, the product of social, political, practical and textual determinations.