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World Gender Customs
From PBS' Independent Lens, this map was updated in 2023 in consultation with Badly Licked Bear, an educator, writer, artist, and mutual aid worker.
Mapping Trans Joy
Mapping Trans Joy is a direct response to the onslaught of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation many of us are facing around the country. Mapping Trans Joy celebrates trans life, trans joy, and trans resistance to erasure and elimination.
Places of Latino LGBTQ Gathering Spaces
From the National Park Service.
Lavender Hill: Then and Now (Denver)
From The Center on Colfax's Colorado LGBTQ History Project. This exhibit represents a few important locations that are part of Lavender Hill Queer Cultural District and help tell the story of Denver’s rich queer history, from its early days through today.
Equality Maps from the Movement Advancement Project
The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies. This map shows the overall policy tallies (as distinct from sexual orientation or gender identity tallies) for each state, the District of Columbia, and the five populated U.S. territories. A state’s policy tally scores the laws and policies within each state that shape LGBTQ people's lives, experiences, and equality. The major categories of laws covered by the policy tally include: Relationship & Parental Recognition, Nondiscrimination, Religious Exemptions, LGBTQ Youth, Health Care, Criminal Justice, and Identity Documents.
Queering the Map
Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
Mapping the Gay Guides Visualizing Queer Space and American Life

Kentucky Queer History Map
Statewide Pride, a digital map and storytelling exhibit, aims to highlight locations significant to LGBT history across Kentucky throughout the twentieth century. These sites may include bars, private homes, businesses, crime scenes, and more.
San Francisco LGBTQ Heritage Guide
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
This digital collection uses maps to explore the region’s LGBTQ communities from the end of World War II in 1945 through the passage of St. Louis’ first gay and lesbian-inclusive civil rights ordinance in 1992.
Queer Maps (Los Angeles)
An explorable archive built to preserve and share the diverse history of LGBTQ spaces, organizations and happenings in Los Angeles from 1871 through today.
Mapping Our History: LGBT Center Central PA History Project
A special initiative of the History Project is a geographical mapping of the sites in central Pennsylvania where LGBT history occurred. A Google Maps plot of each location is coded and linked to a spreadsheet of information of historical locations of bars, businesses, organizations, events and other resources related to the LGBT community discovered through research into our oral history and document collections.

Pride of Place: England's LGBTQ Heritage
Members of the public have placed thousands of pins on the map that identify places that are relevant to LGBTQ heritage and history.