My initial understanding of queer limited my analysis of
space to be a place that refuses mainstream or normal content. To an extent
this still remains accurate, but now I see space more conceptually from
discussing the way in which it operates in The Killing of Sister George, The
Innocents and Blue. It seems that a queer public space cannot exist
as one must enter it through admission of difference, immediately segregating
them from general populous. Once exposed, though technically public, this space
operates as a hostile and sometimes shameful environment rather than a
liberating one. I’ve come to realise that to take the idea of queer literally
can challenge the very notion that queer spaces exist at all. The Innocents
use of paranormal space allowed me to conclude that queer space isn’t any
space, rather a lack of space. When this idea is applied to Blue also,
it appears that presence and absence can be synchronised, which suggests that
all spaces are open to queering because space and void imply destinations or
dimensions that you can simultaneously be in and out of.
