Queering the Map

As a heritage project, Queering the Map is unique in its focus: it encourages all users to think of their LGBT+ experiences as vital to the history of the landscape, not simply confined to neighbourhoods and buildings that are increasingly under threat of gentrification. We're encouraged to geo-locate moments of queerness; "anything from direct action activism to a conversation expressing preferred pronouns, from flirtatious glances to weekend long sex parties; all are part of the project of queering space. Queer history matters, and elders of the community are encouraged to add moments and places of historical significance to the map that enrich our collective memory." In documenting our experiences, a hidden LGBT+ landscape is revealed - and we realise that we are the fabric of it; the past, the present, and the future.

Explore your own neighbourhood and add to our LGBT+ heritage at queeringthemap.com.