Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Sce WHO Declassified Homosexualy As Disease

Contents:

• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

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.

THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI

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.