QUEERING THE MAP 🌈

@queeringthemap.bsky.social

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Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping project for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. queeringthemap.com

Image Pink Map black pin drop on location with message that reads “looking in the mirror after my first post-op shower and finally loving myself”
Image Pink Map black pin drop on location with message that reads “Where I first kissed the woman who would become my first girlfriend before getting on a flight back to the States. I'm so glad she gave long-distance a chance, and I love that I'm able to be here with her now”
Image Pink Map black pin drop on location with message that reads “First kiss with a girl in high school” #queeringthemap
Image Pink and gray colored Map black pin drop on location with message that reads My wife and I bought our first house together here with our 3 kitties. Although we are currently separated, it has been a good home and a welcoming community #queeringthemap
Pink map black pinned location Our first apartment, with my first girlfriend after I moved from the States. I'm so excited to start a life here with her!
Pink map black pinned location Where I met the woman who would become my first girlfriend
Pink map black pinned location The best game of queer poker! Now my thesis is all over the place because of it
Pink map black pinned location where we decided it wasn't going to work. later i realized i could see your front door from the VIA rail line and now i make sure to sit on the other side of the aisle
Pink map black pinned location Moved into a triplex inhabited nearly entirely of amazing queer women who introduced me to my first queer mtl events. The building is fittingly called "the gay castle".
Pink map black pinned location Omg I'm gay aaaaa
Pink map black pinned location Can confirm, fucking awesome lingerie!
Pink map black pinned location Walked them all the way out of the metro so we could have our first kiss in the dark. Got back on the train and realized you were already burrowed into me.
Pink map black pinned location I spent five years loving you from a distance and putting your happiness first so I could be in your life. Here, in your apartment we fell in love again and now we can be happy together.
Pink map black pinned location We snuck in between classes and they serenaded me on the piano. That song still makes me think of them.
Pink map black pinned location We met on a dating app and you took great care of me when I first came to Montreal :)
Pink map black pinned location “Got sucked on the third floor during lunch by a trans mtf, was awesome.”
Pink map black pinned location “I supervised you during a testo-shot as a friend. I'm both incredibly excited for you, and equally envious. I didn't want to understand why.”
Pink map black pinned location “I got my first binder here for my birthday. I was so nervous, I just bought it and ran without trying it on. It was too big, but did the job well enough. I couldn't stop looking at myself in the mirror. You were so kind and I wish I could have thanked you more.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “Held her hand for the first time. HP +NJ”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “She kissed me right here. I wanted her to kiss me all day I kept applying chapstick. Then she leaned in, and I got insecure and pulled away. So she got insecure and I had to tell her that I did want to kiss her. And she told me the same. And then I finally leaned in for the kiss”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “First timing living with out trans people, where I lived when I had my first boyfriend. I'm a whole dyke now!”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “This is one of the appartments where we spent everyday together like we were joined at the bussy.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I proposed to my GF after 3-4 months of dating. We are now 2 years in and still madly in love. Love u bebe ❤️
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “in love with a boy <3 - some trans dude”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “I'm so happy I don't have a crush on you" she said.
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “married the most amazing woman and learned how to be happy“
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “Itold you I loved you”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message “came out to my favorite teachers here, they were wonderfully supportive”
“ Where at first, thought i met someone who is funny and interesting, but realised it was a person i would care a lot more than anything.” #queeringthemap #pride
“ Came out to my aunt here after she accompanied me to the pride parade (thinking the entire time we were there that | was straight). It was my first time coming out to extended family.”
“ First time we saw each other in a long time. We held hands. Finally I fell on the ice, and got a concussion.” #queeringthemap
“One day, when your depression lightened, you invited me to listen to you play violin on the mountain. It was so hard for you to express love through your depression, but I felt it powerfully that day”
“I came out to the 70 people on my private instagram story on bi visibility day (is it bi awareness day? idk)- some reactions were yuck, but most were great and that really helped me clean up some of my relationships.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “First same gender kiss that brought on giddy/butterfly feelings, followed by a plummeting feeling of fear as I realized I was bisexual” #queeringthemap #pride
“Met my gay family here :)
Queering the map Pink map with black pin point location message reads “Where I first kissed my gf - worst kiss ever cause I was young gay and afraid. But three years later and we're still dating so I guess it wasn't as life-ruining as I thought.
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “we went on our first date here without even knowing it was a date. we went back a few months after and this time we had already said i love you to each Other”
“You told me you were so into me and I believed you.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I met my queer partner in High-school and I've transitioned since then. Trans stuff is very hard here in rural NZ. l am lucky to have Him and all of my support network.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I was walking down this road with my best friend when we both let each other know we were bisexual, and I will always love her for being the first person I spoke it out loud to - however casual it all was.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I'm gay in Masterton. Come find me.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink and purple map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “we used to email back and forth, you from mactown, me from wherever I could walk. we decided then that if half the world couldn't keep us apart, nothing could. though I do wish you read fewer Crichton novels.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink and purple map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “Gayest seal of the waters. Maybe one day us gay seals will get the love we deserve... Any gay seals in my area? ;)
Queering The Map Image shows a purple map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “maybe we are alone after all, darling”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “met a gay iceberg here”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “i was the gay iceberg”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink and purple map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “you're not alone friend! :)
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “More gay penguins over here”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “it's very cold here, I need somebody's jacket ... 😊😊😊😊
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “queer penguins <3”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “Met a couple of gay penguins”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I lived in an entirely queer apartment here for the first time and felt so validated”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “never felt 'queer enough' to say it aloud, but i know you know that i really want to kiss you.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “I keep wondering what would have happened if our timing was better. You are a mystery I am now craving to uncover.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “It's the New Year. We're smoking outside, huddled because it's so cold. I finally decide to come out to some friends. They were so empathetic and validating, I would have cried if my tear ducts weren't so cold.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “Camouflage Watched this neighborhood gay bar start, go through a highly popular period, then decline and close. There was nothing quite like playing backgammon on the bar in those early times before the rest of the community discovered it.”
Queering The Map Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “this was our first apartment together”
Image shows a pink map with a black pin drop on location with message that reads “Though not my first kiss. It was my first time with another woman. First time I fell in love with another woman. Unfortunately it didn't work🙁