24 We might conclude, then, that attending to the ruined boathouse on the fringes of Deering’s estate, forgotten as the house and much of the grounds underwent restoration for a wider tourist public, was both an act of claiming a liminal space in a place “without room for us” and an opportunity to pay respects to a hallowed “gay ground” as it was in the process of being restored, its elusive queer history under threat of erasure.
