Homomonument: The Importance of a Representative Space in the City

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Homomonument in Amsterdam. Photo: Geert-Jan Edelenbosch, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

While walking through the city, have you ever felt afraid to be yourself? As strange as the question may sound to some, it is a reality for most LGBTQIA+ people, who at some point have been victims of hostility when they were noticed performing outside the "heteronormative standards" of public spaces. If violence comes from social layers that go beyond the designed space, this does not exempt the importance of thinking about projects that can integrate the physical sphere and insert a symbolic or representational factor to include and educate its citizens. This is the case of Homomonument, which for more than three decades, has become a platform for queer celebration and protest in the heart of Amsterdam.

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Cite: Delaqua, Victor. "Homomonument: The Importance of a Representative Space in the City" [Homomonument: a importância de um espaço de representatividade na cidade] 28 Jun 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/984342/homomonument-the-importance-of-a-representative-space-in-the-city> ISSN 0719-8884

Homomonument in Amsterdam. Photo: Geert-Jan Edelenbosch, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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