The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck, and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era (based on a 2010 drawing by Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky with 24 illustrations by Buzz Slutzky on printed pin-back buttons)

The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck, and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era (based on a 2010 drawing by Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky with 24 illustrations by Buzz Slutzky on printed pin-back buttons)

L.J. Roberts, born Royal Oak, MI 1980

Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky, born 1977

Buzz Slutzky, born Kansas City, KS 1988

2011

L. J. Roberts knitted and sewed this map of queer community building in Brooklyn, New York. The map is based on a drawing by Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky made in honor of Brooklyn’s 2010 Queer House Field Day. Roberts’s large-scale work is a vibrantly colored collage of knitted rectangular poufs, reminiscent of both handmade patchwork quilts and the brickwork of Brooklyn rowhouses. Hot pink triangles (a symbol of LGBTQ self-identity) mark the homes with open doors. Queer Houses continues the work of radical community organizing that changes the home, not the inhabitants.

This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, 2022

Roberts, L.J

Slutzky, Buzz

Lang/Levitsky, Daniel Rosza

Smithsonian Institution

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