ABSTRACT
Margaret’s entrance hallway offers an important and highly personal queer space. Standing at the threshold, a rich tapestry of privately and publically constructed identity appears. Entrance hallways offer a window into diverse homemaking and identity constructions, shaped in and beyond the exclusive private domestic sphere. Stepping into the entrance hallway exposes the diverse and important ways in which public, private, subjectivity and home are interwoven in productions of the self. Like architectural discourse, psychoanalytic theory has also interrogated the ‘various thresholds and boundaries between private and public, inner and outer, subject and object, personal and social’. The spatial analysis focuses mainly on older gay male-occupied homes and shows how in a selection of homes in London, identity at home manifests itself in complicated ways, in dialogue with public and social notions of politics and culture.
