AcknowledgmentsIntroduction -- Beautiful homes -- Introduction -- Domestic passions : unpacking the homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts -- Queer interior s: from C.R.Ashbee to Oliver Ford -- Queer families -- George Ives, queer lives and the family -- Joe Randolph Ackerley's "family values" -- Outsiders inside -- Remembering bedsitterland : Rex Batten, Carl Marshall and Alan Louis -- Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton's queer domestic -- Taking sexual politics home -- "Gay times" : the brixton squatters -- Derek Jarman's domestic politics -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations.