Gay Cisg Spots

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• NEW YORK CY GAY MAP
• GAY CISG SPOTS
• GAY SEATTLE

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

We reported 2016 that no LGBTQ+ anizatn has ever e out favor of pedophilia or child moltatn, and that attempts to lk homosexualy to pedophilia were themselv often lked to bigotry.

There is a long-standg, homophobic and transphobic tactic of accurately parg LGBTQ people to pedophil and beg LGBTQ to pedophilia. Mappg the Gay Guis’ ma functn is prervg and publicizg an overlooked, unr-studied chapter LGBTQ history.

NEW YORK CY GAY MAP

Screenshot via Mappg the Gay Guis / Photo illtratn by Meilan Solly.

GAY CISG SPOTS

As Eric Gonzaba, a historian at California State Universy, Fullerton, explas, Damron, a whe, gay man om San Francis, “started jt wrg down lists of lotns that he would vis, … plac [where] he eher found other gay men or he felt accepted. What began as a personal reference for the Californian and his iends soon morphed to a thrivg enterprise ak to The Negro Motorist Green Book, which safely shepherd Ain Amerin travelers across the untry durg the Jim Crow era, but for gay men and, to a lser extent, lbian women.

Ccially, Damron’s Addrs Book never explicly intified s target dience (at least until 1999, when the word “gay” was first prted on s ver), stead relyg on phemisms, nuendo and d abbreviatns to circulate rmatn wh the queer muny. Tled Mappg the Gay Guis, the project aims to “rrect the cultural erasure of historil geography” by spotlightg lol muni’ oft-unherald queer history and, adds Gonzaba, explorg “how that muny relat to other parts of the untry.

The first phase of Mappg the Gay Guis lnched mid-Febary wh a foc on the southern Uned Stat. Screenshot via Mappg the Gay Guis. Mappg the Gay Guis isn’t the first digal history project dited to Damron’s Addrs Books or the numero sp-off guis the publitns spawned.

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As Gonzaba explas, “This is one publisher and one guy’s view of what the gay world looked like. In 1964, the year Damron first published his Addrs Book, gay sex was nsired a crime every state except Illois, and the Stonewall Uprisg, wily creded wh sparkg the ntemporary gay rights movement, was still five years away.

To ensure his work reached s tend dience, Damron plugged to existg works wh the unrground gay muny, addg his handbook to the array of eroti, pulp novels, physique magaz and other prted materials available to those the know. “The mute you enter the gay world via one of the s, ” says Gonzaba, “ … you n possibly buy accs to even more of the gay culture, [intifyg] more spac by buyg this gui and beg able to see other plac that might be of tert to you other ci.

Damron’s Addrs Books weren’t the only gay travel guis available durg the latter half of the 20th century, but as Mappg the Gay Guis pots out, “They were the origal and remaed the gold standard, pecially for men, through the 1990s. But by intifyg patterns the body of work Damron left behd, the rearchers hope to learn more about his dividual character, cludg the implic bias he had as a gay, whe man om the progrsive astal cy of San Francis. Acrdg to Gonzaba, Damron often classified s popular among gay Ain Amerin men the Amerin South as not only “B” (“Blacks Frequent”), but “RT, ” or “Rnchy Typ”—shorthand for tablishments emed “ls than reputable.

Mappg the Gay Gui’s ma functn is prervg and publicizg an overlooked, unr-studied chapter LGBTQ history. Damron’s guibooks refute this misnceptn, ttifyg to the existence of what Gonzaba ems “thrivg” gay muni ci across the untry long before Stonewall and other ton the gay rights movement.

On a wir sle, says David Johnson, thor of Buyg Gay: How Physique Entrepenrs Sparked a Movement, to Los Angel magaze, the Addrs Books likely ntributed to the growth of a llective sense of gay inty.

By fall 2020, the Mappg the Gay Guis team hop to publish listgs om every state, Washgton, D. Gay Rights,.

Every year, along wh the State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA World publish also maps of sexual orientatn laws the world. This map is supported by the data llected State-Sponsored Homophobia 2020: Global Legislatn Overview Update (published December 2020). The maps were prevly lled Lbian and Gay Rights Maps, and you n fd some of their pre-2019 edns below.

Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people. Transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or somethg else. Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women.

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