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  • April 1, 2025
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    This year, AIANY’s LGBTQIA+ Alliance celebrated Pride at Lutron’s NYC Global Experience Center.  Hosted by Cholula Lemon and Sweaty Eddie, architects, designers, and friends celebrated our first anniversary of the committee together in Lutron’s WELL Platinum certified space while sipping design-inspired cocktails and enjoying wonderful catering.  We are espcially thankful to both our host sponsor for the event, as well as KPF for contributing to the entertainment for the evening.
    This year’s Pride Celebration’s benefactor, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, is an organization that fights to make equality, equity and liberation a reality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people. As the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, they drive impact by inspiring, engaging and mobilizing millions of pro-equality voters and supporters to elect pro-equality leaders and to demand equity-based policies and legislation; changing hearts and minds through programming that increases understanding, visibility and support for the diverse LGBTQ+ community in all aspects of our identities; and transforming the institutions and systems that shape our everyday lives by advancing LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and practices in schools, workplaces, hospitals, communities and beyond. If you were not able to make a donation at the event, please click here if you would like to make a contribution.
    We look forward to many more memorable milestones together!
  • June 6, 2024
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    On June 5, 2024, AIA NY’s LGBTQIA+ Alliance had the opportunity to organize a walking tour of the LGBTQ History in Greenwich Village, hosted by Ken Lustbader of NYC LGBT Historic Sites.  We learned about the history of our community pre- and post- Stonewall, visiting several locations associated with the early LGBTQ activism, all of which influenced American culture and politics.  Our tour started at Christopher Park, across from Stonewall, where we learned about the long-standing oppressive practices which led to the 1969 uprising and, before that, the 1966 “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar. Stops along the tour also highlighted locations that have been especially impactful on the lives of LGBTQ people, including the starting point of the first-ever NYC Pride March (in 1970), popular gay and lesbian bars such as the Duchess and the Snake Pit, and places connected to the Mattachine Society, the Gay Activists Alliance, Radicalesbians, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
    How better to end our tour than to discuss the history of and then share a drink at our very own Julius Bar.  We greatly appreciate the work that NYC LGBT Historic Sites does to memorialize our community’s history, to share those stories with us, and to foster pride and knowledge in those that came before us and those of us that continue to work toward our equality.  To learn more about NYC LGBT Historic sites, please visit their website (https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/).
  • April 19, 2024
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023 Photo: Asya Gorovits
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023 Photo: Asya Gorovits
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023 Photo: Asya Gorovits
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023 Photo: Asya Gorovits
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023
    CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC, installation view, Center for Architecture, 2023 Photo: Asya Gorovits
    AIANY's LGBTQIA+ Alliance Celebrates the CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC Exhibition
    AIANY's LGBTQIA+ Alliance Celebrates the CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC Exhibition Photo: Sophie Cooke

    We celebrated the CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC exhibition one last time with a farewell gathering hosted by the AIANY LGBTQIA+ Alliance. Just prior to the physical exhibit’s closing on March 23, 2024, members of the Alliance gathered to learn what had been discovered during the interactive installation from A.L. Hu, one of the three residents of CFA Lab.

    Queeries: Designing Reality Equitably and Madly (Q:DREAM) leveraged the Center for Architecture’s physical and virtual properties to enact an emergent research-creation process that asked queer people: “What are your definitions of ‘home’?” The project spotlighted NYC’s queer architects, designers, organizations, and places at different scales, with a participatory component for folks to recognize and celebrate the spaces they call “home.” “Designing Reality” refers to the creation of space for imagining worlds where queer folks have autonomous agency over their lives, while “Equitably and Madly” expresses parallel principles of equity of access, pride, and extraordinary imagination. Multimedia storytelling and queer data analysis expand the frame of “home” to encompass queer families, support networks, spaces of one’s own, privacy, security, and stability. Through the course of the residency, Q:DREAM began to build a living archive that documents and celebrates queer designers, their work, and their desires.

    Members celebrated through interactive workstations, adding the final touches of colored yarn that spun together their identities with their definitions of home and also wrote postcards to their future selves about what home will look like for them and added them to the collection. We want to thank the Center for Architecture and the three residents, A.L. Hu, Kholisile Dhliwayo, and Karla Andrea Perez for their investigations and contributions to amplifying the voices of minority communities as part of this wonderful exhibition.

  • March 7, 2024
    Image from Please Be Seated exhibit
    Image from Please Be Seated exhibit
    Photo from Please Be Seated exhibit
    Photo from Please Be Seated exhibit
    Photo from Please Be Seated Exhibit
    Photo from Please Be Seated Exhibit
    Photo from Please be Seated exhibit
    Photo from Please be Seated exhibit

    In January of 2024, Pride by Design approached the AIANY LGBTAIA+ Alliance about an upcoming exhibition in which they were participating in at the Museum of Design Atlanta. The Please be Seated exhibit invited local artist, designers, and community groups to transform a stool (representing their seat) into a symbol of space, identity, and empowerment. Pride by Design’s piece, titled, “Past, Present, + Future: Witnessing LGBTQIA+ Stories to Build Equitable Futures” celebrates and amplifies the stories of architects and designers within the LGBTQIA+ community across the various points in time. The AIANY LGBTQIA+ Alliance was grateful to be asked and fortunate to provide imagery to be a part of the final installation.

    To learn more about this work, please visit Pride by Design’s website for a full description of the process, the piece, and all of the contributors who made our stories possible to tell.

  • July 7, 2023

    AIA New York proudly launched a new LGBTQIA+ affinity group for the Chapter in 2023. This new group will work to bring together LGBTQIA+ architects, other professionals, and their allies with an aim to create programming, provide networking opportunities, celebrate LGBTQIA+ identity, and offer support around workplace inclusion and other issues.

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