Introduction

Queering the home, and understanding it as a queer space, is rarely straightforward. As this book demonstrates, queer and normal hardly exist in stark opposition (Wiegman and Wilson 2015)/ In most homes, homemakers and homemaking practices, we can identify an investment in whatever ideas and configurations of the 'normative' are circulating at a particular time, as well as touches of the odd, unusual or more decidedly queer. It is a complex dance, with steps and missteps signalling a desire to conform and to be somehow distinct. The domestic interior is a way of simultaneously fitting in and standing out, and provides a means for the queerly identified individual to couch and present their difference while also showing a conventional investment in the culturally central space of the home.