Documenting, Illustrating, and Celebrating LGBTQIA2S+ Memory

Mapping Queer Cities is a community history project by Kimm Topping and Lavender Education dedicated to uncovering and honoring the places that hold memory for LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Through research, illustration, and storytelling, we celebrate the queer histories embedded in our cities, both the well-known landmarks and the hidden corners where community, resistance, and joy have flourished.

Contribute a Site

Places hold memory. What sites in Boston hold LGBTQIA2S+ community memories for you? Help us create a community-led map of queer history across every neighborhood by sharing sites through our submission form.

Anyone can contribute to this project — you don’t need to be directly connected to the history of a site to suggest it. Selected submissions will be researched, illustrated, and featured here in 2026.

Thank you for helping us build a living archive of Boston’s queer past and present.