The photos used in the artist Danny Jauregui’s project document a history that generations of young gay men might not be familiar with. “I wanted to show that these locations once existed here,” he says. A single location can be so many places at once. People cruised within communities, within neighborhoods, at local parks, bars, and shops. It is about identifying it, reclaiming it, and giving it a permanent spatial location in the decades following the crisis. It is not a queer space any of us would want to inhabit, but many have been forced to make it their own.” In many ways, Danny Jauregui’s work goes beyond just inhabiting the void, that queer space separate from society. In Queer Space: Architecture and Same Sex Desire, Aaron Betsky writes, “The queerest space of all is the void, and AIDS has made us live in that emptiness, that absence, that loss….
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