# Queer Spatial Justice + Equity --- **LGBTQIA+ cartographic DAOWO** *ongoing research project** ###### tags: `queer` `mapping` `GIS` `cartography` `equity` `blockchains` `justice` Harvard Graduate School of Design Summer Design Discovery Cambridge, MA 2019 --- Themes --- - [Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis](https://wustl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=d650dce414924b07b35a591d1202a6b5)  --- - [Queering the Map](https://www.queeringthemap.com/)  --- - [The History Project Boston LGBT](https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/72526841f2384b2f30c3b514a37d4887/boston-stonewall-50-commemoration-locations/index.html)  --- - [Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth Resources Map](https://ma-lgbtq.org/)  --- - [LGBTQ Heritage](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&ll=42.3644031775201%2C-71.096787184189&spn=33.371539%2C76.552734&mid=1uN8gCmo2xJI5zjIWRzMStjJSgh8&z=15)  --- - [Beyond Gender Binaries](http://wustl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=707ff7e2d6014d068f47b52c4f476925)  --- - [NYC LGBT Sites](https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/)  --- - [A Queer New York](http://jgieseking.org/AQNY/)  --- - [Race for Utopia Open-Source Posters](http://raceforutopia.com/)  --- - [Common Ownership](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Common_Ownership)  --- - [FOAM.space](https://foam.space/) - **"cartography by cryptography"** *"centralized mapping services like GPS – which is owned by the U.S. government and operated by the Air Force – are ultimately vulnerable and unreliable. FOAM’s solution is to spread the work of cartography among a diffuse network of individual users, who register locations on the FOAM map using a cryptographic technique called proof of location."* (source: coindesk) --- Further Reading --- - [Cambridge same-sex marriage milestone turns 15 this May (Curbed Boston)](https://boston.curbed.com/2019/5/13/18514568/cambridge-same-sex-marriage) - [Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping](http://notchesblog.com/2018/04/24/queer-history-in-the-divided-city-a-new-approach-to-digital-mapping/) - [The Gender & Geography Bibliography](http://gpow.org/gendergeog/about/) --- Proofs of Location --- --- - **MIT Rainbow Lounge**  *A home to the Institute’s various LGBT student groups and support staff. Through the establishment of the Rainbow Lounge the MIT students, staff, faculty and guests strive to: – provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including allies – achieve a better sense of community with its cross-cultural perspectives – educate about gender issues, safe sex, and LBGT-related topics – present resources available at MIT and in the surrounding community – encourage participation of allies and friends – provide a comfortable space for meetings, relaxation, learning and social interaction* --- - **City of Cambridge** *The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was the first place to legalize same-sex marriage in the United States on May 17, 2004, and here the City Hall of Cambridge laid claim to the first wedding ceremony on that day, an historic milestone for the LGBTQIA+ community.*  --- Questions --- - Could a LGBTQIA+ justice interest "owned" DAO earn equity via cartographing "Queering the Map" moments + memories on a decentralized POL map like "FOAM"? - How could the queer-conscious cartography be used as inspiration for open-source art projects? Could they be NFTs? - What could a queer-conscious DAOWO empower within frameworks of spatial equity? [date: 11 july 2019] --- Mapping --- --- ### Red Triangles : Resources - Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Care Centers - Adoption Resource Associates  --- - Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Dinners  --- - First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church | LGBTQ Welcoming Congregation | Stonewall Anniversary Podcast | | -------- | -------- | | | - Old Cambridge Baptist Church | Progressive Peace & Justice | Likely 1st Baptist in USA (LGBT) | | -------- | -------- | | | - MIT Rainbow Lounge Sources [1](hhttps://eldercare.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LGBT-Resources-Guide.pdf), [2](https://ma-lgbtq.org/), [3](https://lbgtq.mit.edu/) --- ### Green Squares : Historical - Paradise Nightclub (2018) - MIT Student Homophile League (1969-1975) - New Words Bookstore (1974-2002) Sources [1](https://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20180918/end-of-era-paradise-nightclub-closes-in-cambridge), [2](https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/72526841f2384b2f30c3b514a37d4887/boston-stonewall-50-commemoration-locations/index.html), [3](http://historyproject.org/stonewall50) --- ### Blue Circles : Advocacy - Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Cambridge - Cambridge Women’s Center --- ### Yellow Ovals : School - City of Cambridge Public Schools: OST - LGBTQ+ Youth Inclusion in Cambridge Out-of-School Time Programs  Sources [1](https://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/glbtcommission/ostreport_final.pdf), [2](https://cambridgegis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4c2e95d335084a2097179cfea0bb219c), [3](https://www.cpsd.us/cms/one.aspx?portalId=3042869&pageId=3406514) --- ### Purple Pluses : Moments Cambridge geo-fenced referenced to [Queering the Map](http://lucaslarochelle.com/queering-the-map-3) (worldwide): *a community-generated counter-mapping platform for LGBTQ2I+ moments, memories, and histories in relation to physical space, that functions as a living archive of queer feeling.* [date: 12 july 2019] --- ## Directions --- **The Scales and Shapes of Queer Women's Geographies: Mapping Private, Public and Cyber Spaces in Portland, OR** by Paola Renata Saldaña Portland State University --- "Queer women’s relationship to space has been under-theorized due to the **difficulties in identifying particular spatial patterns that can describe their presence in urban settings**. Most of the research that has focused on queer space has mentioned the **difficulty of mapping queer women**." "These findings also seem to support Ghaziani’s (2011) argument that ***a ‘post-gay’ era is characterized by both assimilation into the mainstream and internal fracturing within the LGBTQ communities***." --- "their concerns with the disappearances of these spaces were not only based on nostalgia, they were also based on a feeling that **the mainstream acceptance of queer people is not enough to deem queer communities unnecessary because this acceptance is only based on the premise that LGBTQ folks will adhere to hegemonic notions of family and citizenship** (Duggan, 2002; Ward, 2008)." --- "This begs several **questions that I pose to future researchers** surrounding the relationship between queer women and space: do these communities and community spaces only arise when a group of people feel unsafe and threatened? Or **is there not enough social and economic capital in order to create these spaces**?" --- "Queer women public spaces, in reality, where **never as widespread as gay men spaces**, and queer women **never had the financial capital to occupy neighborhoods in the same ways** as their male counterparts. **Issues of safety** in public spaces might have also affected the **desire** of queer women to create public spaces." https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3214&context=open_access_etds --- **Queer/Joto: Performing the Epidermic Cartography of Lesbian and Gay Chicano** By Antonio Prieto Panel “Gay and Lesbian Identities and the Politics of Place”. 2000 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 16-18, 2000. --- "To speak of these issues, both artists expose their vulnerable bodies, whether it be in text or in performance. They trace an epidermic cartography where complex histories and identities may be evoked." http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/Lasa2000/Prieto.pdf --- **Architects can "play a more prominent role" in creating queer space says Ben Campkin** --- "A lot of the more formal, licensed premises are **owned by white, gay men**, whereas if you look at the more marginalised communities, they find it more difficult to establish places" https://www.dezeen.com/2019/06/05/lgbt-queer-space-ben-campkin-interview/  --- ## Curiosities ---   https://pudding.cool/2018/06/gayborhoods/ ---  --- "Industry vets..chalk the loss of gay bars up to the **price of progress**: As Massachusetts helped normalize LGBT inclusion faster than just about anywhere else in the country, businesses that originated as safe spaces suffered; the **rise of online hookup sites and mobile apps** delivered the fatal blow...**gentrification** changed the face of gay ghettos..helping shoo away the colorful queer artists and others who gave neighborhoods..their appeal. At the same time, **marriage equality** shifted some of the cultural emphasis from White Parties to white-picket fences...the bars and venues that remain feel **less edgy**, say some old-timers, and **the spotty scene no longer cultivates a cohesive-feeling gay culture.**" --- "**Disrupters ranging from the Internet to market and cultural forces** have already mortally wounded many of the institutions that support **subcultures**, from alt-weekly newspapers to indie music venues. Gay bars have long been spaces that **prop up communities who play on the fringes**, **generators of subversive cultural movements** that eventually go mainstream, and bulwarks **against the sterilization and homogenization of city life**." --- "As public gathering spaces and community hubs like them disappear, our cities become less diverse and less, well, interesting. The urban pulse slows. The heartbeat feels less electric." https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/12/12/boston-gay-scene/ ---  "With assimilation, the community has lost something,” Porter says. “I think one of the biggest victims has been gay-only and particularly women- and lesbian-only space."  https://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/11/09/second-saturdays-end-at-machine ---  https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/259457/measure-lgbt-population.aspx  https://news.gallup.com/podcast/234872/challenge-measuring-lgbt-population.aspx Census 2000 counts same-sex couples in 99 percent of U.S. counties. Like the distribution of the U.S. population at large, the distribution of gay and lesbian families is far from uniform across the nation. (From The Gay and Lesbian Atlas, by Gary J. Gates and Jason Ost, Urban Institute Press, May 2004.) https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/71231/900695-facts-and-findings-from-the-gay-and-lesbian-atlas.pdf [date: 21 july 2019] ---  http://gamestudies.org/1803/articles/pozo