ABSTRACT
The chapter aims to provide an introductory investigation on the relationship between queer sexuality and rural space, focusing in particular on productive landscapes. It first examines, in the existing literature, the space gays and lesbians occupy within rural places, observing the dominance of urban queer narratives focused on activities of consumption; and the perception of the countryside as a leisure place of liberation. It then questions the existence of a space for queer inclusivity within the practice of architects and landscape architects by considering experimentations focused on agriculture and its insertion into the urban environment of the city. By highlighting the absence of any clearly declared queer-inclusive stances within architectural models acting on productive landscapes, and a general biased heteronormative attitude within the literature on food studies and landscape history, the chapter opens up to the need of constructing new notions of landscape and nature in a queer perspective.
