You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Outward, Slate's Podcasts about queer living, laughing, loving,

and all those other L words, especially the L word. I'm Brian Lauter, an editor at Slate, and on this

week's show we're going to be talking about a project that I've long admired and think

is just one of the coolest ideas in the world because it does indeed kind of involve the whole world.

Queering the map, which launched in 2017 is an online initiative build around queer cartography,

the notion that we can map space with our personal queer experiences.

That might sound a little highfalutin, but just think about it.

Where was the house party where you had your first gay kiss?

The intersection where you started nervously coming out to a parent or friend, the

cafe where you got a text about the loss of a queer elder, the shop mirror where you first

experienced gender euphoria.

With querying the map you can drop a pen on all of these special points in space and share those stories with others

And once you see that beautiful globe overflowing with hundreds of thousands of moments of queer joy

sorrow and everything in between in 28 different languages, you can't help but feel the truth of the slogan that the queers, we are everywhere.

We'll be right back with a conversation about querying the map just after this message. Wimmer, sunnier days are calling.

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