ABSTRACT
“Throughout central Europe, sexuality is an accepted legitimate framework through which to analyse literature, music and art. Yet in Germany, it is inconceivable to consider architecture from the perspective.” A work of architecture must speak for itself, and all other aspects of the project, such as the person who created the design and his or her sexual orientation, are not relevant. During the 1990s openly gay mayors managed major cities like Hamburg and Berlin and the Foreign Minister, who was in office from 2009 to 2013, made no secret of his sexual orientation. Increasingly neoliberal economic policies required many of the larger architecture offices in Germany to not only present their architecture but to publicise their leading architects. Queer architects are not looking at diversity from the outside; they experience it every day as they move between the protected space of private life and the complications they negotiate in their professional life.
