Mappg the Gay Guis is a project led by Eric Gonzaba, CSUF assistant profsor of Amerin studi, that plots gay spac datg back to 1965 on a digal map.
Contents:
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Mappg the Gay Guis visualiz lol queer spac' evolutn between 1965 and 1980 * gay map project *
Genr inty and exprsn are pennt of sexual orientatn, and transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, lbian, gay or bisexual.
SAN ANTON GAY MAP
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Mappg the Gay Guis’ ma functn is prervg and publicizg an overlooked, unr-studied chapter LGBTQ history. Screenshot via Mappg the Gay Guis / Photo illtratn by Meilan Solly. 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.
A digal exploratn of how the regn’s lbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer muni have changed over time." class="jsx-2067809186 * gay map project *
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.
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay map project *
The first phase of Mappg the Gay Guis lnched mid-Febary wh a foc on the southern Uned Stat.