Expanding queer architectural theory: Towards a framework of decolonial queer borderlands architecture

Queer theorists have interrogated heteropatriarchy in architecture and urbanism by examining masculinist organizations of space. Yet these critiques are epistemologically bound by geographic, racial, class, and gendered power structures. I summarize scholarship on queer architecture and describe how queer theorists of architecture can and should expand scholarship beyond existing confines. Considering the distinctive queer architectures of the borderland, I examine how intersectional marginalizations and subversions shape queer, borderland life and produce novel spatial formations. This paper considers the capacious possibility of a decolonial queer borderland theory of architecture to understand important yet understudied organizations of space.