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<h2 align="center"><em>'''DID YOU KNOW?'''</em></h2>
<h3 align="center">'''Prominent Furniture Designers Who Identify as LGBTQ'''</h3>
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<p>Furniture design is a niche area of product design for the home and office environment.  The profession attracts individuals with a range of artistic sensibilities, from simple and clean to flamboyant and eye-catching.  LGBTQ individuals have a notable presence within the profession.  After all, the popular expression 'coming out of the closet' itself combines the process of declaring one's sexual identity through a piece of furniture.</p>  

<p>There are several questions that can be asked of LGBTQ furniture designers.  Is there a unique LGBTQ design aesthetic for furniture?  What does queer furniture look like, and what does it mean to make a room comfortable for someone who identifies as LGBTQ?  Does sexual identity inform an individual's relationship to the objects that surround them?  These are general questions that are difficult to answer specifically, but within the profession itself they are ones that the designer is always attempting to answer.  It is the queer designer's desire to attract an audience and clientele for their artistic work, so the context is always in the product even though there may be no confirmed relationship between design and sexuality.</p> 

<p>LGBTQ designers are closely related to the Interior Design profession and the fashion industry.  Several prominent clothing designers have extended their influence to furniture design, notably France's [[Yves Saint Laurent]].  Transgender designer [[Sawyer DeVuyst]] has made a noteworthy mark in both his furniture and clothing designs.  Prominent retail distributors of their furniture design include America's [[Mitchell Gold]] and [[Bob Williams]], and Germany's [[Gero Furchheim]] of the Cairo chain of stores.</p> 

<p>Britain's famed furniture designer [[Charles Robert Ashbee]] is considered the father of the Arts & Craft movement.</p>

<p>We have identified notable LGBTQ furniture designers from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States.  To read more and see the complete list, click '''[[Prominent Furniture Designers Who Identify as LGBTQ|here]]'''</p>

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The goal of QueerBio.com is to be the definitive online biographical reference source for the international LGBTQ community.  Its database lists over 15,000 contemporary and historical figures who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, two-spirit, or gender fluid (LGBTQ) and includes artists, sports figures, politicians, entertainers, business  leaders, academics, activists, and more.  The database is widely international in scope and is an ideal source for research and analysis with full search and sort functionality.

The mission is to '''inspire, educate, and motivate''' all generations of LGBTQ individuals and others through a collective knowledge of this international community.

'''Managing Editors:''' ''[[Mark S. Bonham]], [[Connie Bonello]], [[Gordon Dunbar]]''

== Search for a Biography ==

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Alternatively, you can view and scroll through the entire list of biographies by viewing the [[Special:AllPages|All Biographies]] section.

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Despite adversity and discrimination, LGBTQ individuals have excelled throughout history.  Yet historians and academics have conveniently participated in the heterosexist erasure of these LGBTQ contributions by omitting the LGBTQ status of prominent historical figures from academic and historical documents.  Accordingly, there are relatively few comprehensive projects which document and showcase the influence of these LGBTQ efforts. 

''Being Different: 101 Global LGBTQ Individuals Who Changed The World'' will be an original documentary outlining the contributions that members of the LGBTQ community have made, individually and collectively, to changing the world.  

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