Just Made a Queer Memory? Drop a Pin.
Name an L.G.B.T.Q. landmark. Perhaps it’s the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan. Maybe it’s Castro Camera, Harvey Milk’s shop in San Francisco, or even the Coral Sea Islands, where activists started their own micronation to advocate the legalization of gay marriage in Australia.
All three places appear on Queering the Map, a digital atlas that invites L.G.B.T.Q. people to tag any point on earth with an anonymous message describing what the location means to them.
But the interactive website, which was started in 2017 by Lucas LaRochelle, a 27-year-old artist and digital designer, isn’t your average guide of L.G.B.T.Q.
historical places. Even if some pay homage to recognizable stomping grounds, the entries tell distinctly personal stories about the many different locations where people have experienced important queer moments in their lives.
