Editors’ Summary: This project combines oral history interviews, digital storytelling, and GIS to map Sapphic areas of New York City. The author begins by visualizing all of the bars in NYC, and identifying the four bars that are explicitly lesbian bars. The author encourages the reader to move beyond the idea of bars as the only spaces for queer life. Interviewees created “cognition maps,” or hand-drawn maps that reflect their understanding of queer space in the city. These maps are then overlaid onto the NYC map to provide a more holistic view of sapphic NYC.
Editors’ Choice: Hidden Constellations
