NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

Launched in 2015, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project maps and records present and possible future lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Lgbt) historic sites in New York City. Using the tag line “Making an Invisible History Visible,” the project draws on the narrative that most Lgbt historic sites have long been “unknown or underappreciated.” As of late 2018, the Web site already includes over two hundred historic sites, each with a brief scholarly record, images, location, and other information. The project fills a hole and promotes other scholarly queer history of New York City. Only a few academic monographs have been published on the city's Lgbtq (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) history to date (George Chauncey's Gay New York [1994]; Mignon R. Moore's Invisible Families [2011]; Christina A. Hanhardt's Safe Space [2013]), and more work like the project is needed. The everyday user—especially undergraduate students and Lgbtq people with little access to their history—can glean a vast amount of knowledge from this project in a short of amount of time. Perhaps future funding will allow the project to attach historical documents or draw upon Web sites that already gather massive amounts of Lgbtq history online, such as OutHistory.org and the Digital Transgender Archive. A Pdf (portable document format) is available of all sites, but a Csv (comma separated values) file would be useful as well in future iterations

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