A digal exploratn of how the regn’s lbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer muni have changed over time." class="jsx-2067809186
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. Mappg the Gay Guis’ ma functn is prervg and publicizg an overlooked, unr-studied chapter LGBTQ history.
SAN ANTON GAY MAP
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. * gay map project *
Screenshot via Mappg the Gay Guis / Photo illtratn by Meilan Solly.
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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.
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. Screenshot via Mappg the Gay Guis.