In “Mappg the Gay Guis: Unrstandg Queer Spac Pre- & Post-Stonewall Ameri,” Dr. Eric Gonzaba will discs his project Mappg the Gay Guis, a digal project which aims to unrstand the often-ignored queer geographi through an teractive web applitn and digal public history project.
Contents:
- ANNOUNCG THE LNCH OF MAPPG THE GAY GUIS!
- 'MAPPG THE GAY GUIS' HIGHLIGHTS LGBTQ SAFE SPAC
- VIRTUAL: LECTURE: MAPPG THE GAY GUIS
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- MAPPG THE GAY GUIS
- MAPPG THE GAY GUIS PRERV LGBTQ HISTORY THROUGH ONLE MAP
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
ANNOUNCG THE LNCH OF MAPPG THE GAY GUIS!
* mapping the gay guides *
Regan and Gonzaba publish 'Mappg the New Gay South: Queer Space and Southern Life, 1965-1980' The Southern Quarterly. Eric Gonzaba, -creators of the NEH-fund digal history project Mappg the Gay Guis. Sierra Rivera, a MA stunt a Cal State Fullerton, reflects on her experience workg on Mappg the Gay Guis Sprg 2022.
Domick Buc, a graduate stunt the History MA program at Clemson Universy, reflects on their experience workg on Mappg the Gay Guis durg the 2021-2022 year.
Mappg the Gay Guis is a historil database and mappg of LGBTQ spac based on the midcentury gay-iendly travel guis created by Bob Damron, a bsman who kept track of his experienc as a gay man travelg around the Uned Stat om …. Jillian Dillard, a senr history major at Clemson Universy, reflects on her experience workg on Mappg the Gay Guis Sprg 2022.
'MAPPG THE GAY GUIS' HIGHLIGHTS LGBTQ SAFE SPAC
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * mapping the gay guides *
This story is masterfully told on a larger sle by Amanda Regan and Eric Gonzaba their new teractive digal history webse, Mappg the Gay Guis: Visualizg Queer Space and Amerin Life. Washgton beme a val player the history of gay rights, ground zero for landmark Supreme Court cisns, massive monstratns, and the se of the most famo display of the 1. Classic gay travel guis wrten durg ls welg tim to go onle.
As a gay man om San Francis, he kept track of his travels to other parts of the US between 1965 and 1980.
The Mappg the Gay Guis team is pleased to announce that we have received a three-year grant om the Natnal Endowment for the Humani to support the expansn of the project. The Bob Damron Addrs Books were a lifele for gay travelers the 1960s and 70s.
VIRTUAL: LECTURE: MAPPG THE GAY GUIS
Mappg the Gay Guis (MGG), is a llaborative mappg project by @regan008 and Dr. Eric Gonzaba. Generoly fund by the NEH. - Mappg the Gay Guis * mapping the gay guides *
Mappg the Gay Guis is an onle exhibn that shows the growth of queer spac for “muny, pleasure, and ….
Mappg the Gay Guis Project highlights historic queer spac. Years ago —no, s ago— if you uldn't fd a lol gay newspaper to browse along your travels, the Damron Guis provid the most up-to-date addrs, phone numbers and rmatn on bars, f, bookstor, bath ho and cisy spots …. Mappg the Gay Guis project plots queer spac, lnch digal map.
Tan Voice: Stunt fds muny, pri project mappg historil gay iendly spots. Visualizg Queer Space Ameri Mappg the Gay Guis Project Plots Historil Spac on a Digal Map. Today we’re exced to officially lnch the first phase of Mappg the Gay Guis, a digal history mappg project that aims to unrstand ignored queer geographi g the Damron Addrs Books.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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. * mapping the gay guides *
Mappg the Gay Guis is an onle exhibn that shows the growth of queer spac for “muny, pleasure, and polics” om 1965 to 1980 all 50 stat as well as Washgton, DC.
In this terview, which has been eded and nnsed for clary, Regan scrib the origs of Mappg the Gay Guis, queer histori beyond the asts, and the gay space Print Lyndon B.
We know that the guis were very popular, but the qutn was, what n reveal and what n not reveal about gay life the Uned Stat? One of the thgs, for example, that surprised me was the number of plac that today we probably wouldn’t nsir a gay space, like a Denny’s, or a Waffle Hoe or hotel bars where where they’re sort of g the spac and they’re -optg them.
MAPPG THE GAY GUIS
The are spac that weren’t signed to be for gay people, but then they bee that bee of who that muny is equentg the space, right? I don’t thk he actually the word “viant” the speech, but he’s talkg about the progrsivens of the South, and ltle do he know that right downstairs the hotel bar, that is one of the spac that gay men ed to gather and e secretly as a muny.
Part of our goal there was to say, you know, look, we always talk about gay life as existg the mecs of San Francis, New York. But what the Damron guis do is allow to really showse that and challenge assumptns, like you may not assume that there are many gay bars Birmgham, Alabama. And I’m ntually surprised, pecially the South, by the role that relign played the gay muny.
MAPPG THE GAY GUIS PRERV LGBTQ HISTORY THROUGH ONLE MAP
There are tertg relatnships between different gay spac all over the map.
There’s a number of gay-iendly clubs that are right on the other si of the borr. We tend to thk of natnal borrs as static and fixed, as problematic as that is, and this is evince that the gay muny there crossed over and termgled and that there was a much more fluid relatnship. Queerg the Map and Mappg the Gay Guis reveal such different thgs and even though our maps may have overlappg lotns, they’re gog to reflect very different stori bee Queerg the Map is a historil memory map, which is so different om a map built g a very rigid historil source.
Today we’re exced to officially lnch the first phase of Mappg the Gay Guis. Mappg the Gay Guis (MGG) is a digal mappg project that aims to unrstand often ignored queer geographi g the Damron Addrs Books, an early but longstandg travel gui aimed at gay men sce the early 1960s. Spanng twelve stat and fourteen years this data provis a tailed portra of gay life the Amerin South.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
While the Damron Addrs Books were not the only gay travel gui or yellow page the 1970s, they were the origal and remaed the gold standard, pecially for men, through the 1990s. How did lbians and gay men terpret and e the spac outled by Damron? Eric Gonzaba, a historian and profsor at California State Universy, Fullerton (CSUF), has lnched a project aimed at "unverg and prervg hidn histori" the LGBTQ muny as prented "a seri of travel guis published by Bob Damron to map historic queer spac across the Uned Stat, " also known as the 'Gay Guis.