Gay interior designer
What draws gay men to interior design?
astro1
I was reading the fascinating GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, multi-attracted , and transgender and gender non-conforming culture) Encyclopedia and in reading various bio’s was struck by how many gay men wanted to be interior designers at some point early in their lives, even if they wound up doing someting else.
What is it about interior design that resonates so strongly with the sensibilities of many gay men, or is that just a stereotype?
samarm2
I’d guess its not so much “Why are so many gay men interior designers?” as “Why are so many interior designers gay men?”. There is a subtle difference.
thatDDperson3
Some of it is stereotype, some of it is an awareness of the changes that can be made in one’s surroundings to improve them, and some of it is that interior design is a “safe field” for male lover men.
Your clients and co-workers won’t care. (Like floristry or hairdressing, you hope for to find gay men there.) Try being the gay guy on the loading dock, or functional as a telephone linesman, or football player or cop or fireman. Not so easy.
Having worked in floral and for interior designers, there is a certain amount of “gay ghetto” mental
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David Bromstad
This 48-year-old homosexual designer won HGTV Style Star in its debut season in 2006. Since then, he has hosted several home improvements shows, including Color Splash, Beach Flip, Design Stars All Stars and is currently the host of My Lottery Dream Home and just starred on HGTV’s new competition show Rock the Block. Last year, he starred in the special My Lottery Fantasy Home: David’s Dream Home. The Floridian went to Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, lived in Miami for several years and has a home in Orlando.
Nate Berkus
Berkus, 50, is the son of celebrated HGTV and DIY residence designer Nancy Golden. A designer in his possess right, he has written many books and has appeared, sharing his knowledge on Oprah’s Big Give and hosted The Nate Berkus Show. He also created a line for Target and has his own lines of stationery and fabric. Later shows include American Dream Builders and a TLC present with his husband and fellow interior designer, Jeremiah Brent, titled Nate and Jeremiah by Design.
The couple, who married in 2014 in NYC, own two children – Poppy Brent-Berkus and O
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Can you trust that we're on our halfway to 2022? Second flies so freaking speedy, and before you perceive it, it's Christmas again (I'm always excited about Christmas, but also, I'm a fan of enjoying every minute of the day, so let's stick with June for now.).
June is the month of unity, equality, love, self-awareness, and pride. In celebration of togetherness and liberty to be yourself, we listed some of our favorite members of the LGBTQIA community that are making a massive impact in the field of interior design and homemaking.
Before we jump into the list, I want to share my thoughts on equality in the plan industry, especially in interior design. For more than a decade of entity part of this fantastic creative journey, I met many talented designers who are uniquely different in many ways. Most of them are women and queer that lead, conduct and create what is now called the contemporary interior design.
We're now in the era of ultra-modern society, and everything has changed (in
Why are male interior designers gay?
No_Wikipedia_Cites1
Someone said (word on the street) that (most) (male) interior designers are gay.
But female interior designers are not.
Why are interior designers (male) gay? Why would that be? Other things that are creative and artsy are not that linked with gayness, like resourceful writing, poetry. But this one thing is.
So explain?
Dahnlor2
I would imagine for the same reason that [most] male clothing designers are gay.
Nava3
The same people who think that male interior decorators are gay also think that all musicians do drugs (including specialists in baroque and people in drums’n’metal bands), all male hairdressers are queer (but not female ones), all engineers are in the autism spectrum and girls do not appreciate math or computers.
Santi’s wife would be quite surprised to hear her husband and father of their three kids bats for the other team; Pepe’s blood pressure still goes through the roof remembering that time the receptionist insisted that all-all-all musicians do drugs (aside of a long-time musician, he was the factory’s EHS manager); while Llongueras has a bad case of droopy wrist he’s another one
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