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.

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.

THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI

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.

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.