Queer Infrastructures: LGBTQ+ Night-time Venues in Global London

Campkin, Ben

Ben Campkin

Ben Campkin is the author of Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (I.B. Tauris, 2013), which won the Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Award (2015) and was commended in the Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Awards for Research (2014). He is Professor of Urbanism and Urban History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Vice-Dean Public and City Engagement for The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. He was UK principal investigator on the EU-funded project Night-spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (2019–23).

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Queer Infrastructures: LGBTQ+ Night-time Venues in Global London

Ben Campkin

Ben Campkin considers the challenges of sustaining London’s LGBTQ+ venues, arguing for the importance of viewing premises, events, and networks through the theoretical lens of “queer infrastructure.”