Mapping the Gay Guides

On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible and sometimes spooky stories.. At Denmark’s largest haunted house attraction, it’s not just about the screams. Researchers are studying the effects – good and bad – that fear has on humans READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https:/ ...  Show more

The James J Walker Park is a local New York City park in Greenwich Village. But what people might not know is that there are 10,000 dead bodies buried underground. In today’s episode, writer and tour guide Christina Ray Stanton tells us how a cemetery becomes a park, reveals some ...  Show more

This week we talk to Sion from The Globetrotter Guys who is an expert on all things LGBTQ+ travel! He talks to us about where he's visited, things to bear in mind when travelling as someone from the LGBTQ+ community, and his stance on travelling to homophobic countries and much, ...  Show more

The National Archives’ collections offer a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ communities in the past, at a time when the State played a major role in repressing and controlling the lives of gay and bisexual men and women. This talk takes yo ...  Show more

With privacy being a modern luxury, where did people in the past go to meet and hook up? Public toilets were (and can still be) a popular option.But what were secret signals? And what were the risks? Especially if, like many of the people who did it, you were part of the gay comm ...  Show more