#quistorymatters

Quist, a LGBTQ history education organization, supports the GSA Network’s boycott of the upcoming movie Stonewall. Please sign on here with other youth concerned about the whitewashing of our history that the trailer below shows.

However, we also recognize many people will want to see the film is like the trailer or other reasons. If you are not going to boycott the movie, we call on you to make a matching donation for the amount of your movie ticket to an organization that honors transgender women of color like the Stonewall movie does not appear to do. We suggest donating locally or to one of the following:

Sylvia Rivera Project

Trans Women of Color Collective

Transgender Archives at University of Victoria

Go beyond feeling upset (to put it lightly) that our foremothers have been erased in this Hollywood version of what happened those nights in June 1969. Make August 2015 and beyond a time when they are so supported they can no longer be ignored. Make a donation in the amount of the ticket price to one of these or another trans-positive organization to offset the profit other will make off of this whitewashing. Whether you offset your own ticket or a stranger’s, #DonateATicket.

Welcome to Quist 2.0! Our new features include:

The option for daily push notifications

A tutorial

Choice of language (only Spanish is live so far, but sign up for our email list to find out as others are released)

Dozens of new historical events, mostly from outside the U.S.

Improved accuracy in keyword search

Released for Windows phones for the first time (updated on iOS/Apple and Android devices)

And a geotagged global map of LGBT historic sites as well LGBT/HIV-related archives, museums, and memorials

The first three features are easy to find. Simply tap the Menu button in the top right corner of any screen and select “Settings” at the bottom of the list to get this screen (below) to toggle any of your options.

Now to the juicy stuff – the unprecedented map!

From that top right right menu button, choose “Browse by Location.” A Google map that is zoomed out a bit above your current location (if you allow us to know your location) will appear.

There are five types of locations on this supermap:

means that something related to LGBTQ/HIV history happened at this location. It could be the site of a protest, wedding, murder, etc. Places like parliaments have multiple related events. For our U.S. historic places, many are from a partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, who shared their research with us. There are already 0ver 300 of these on the map and we add many more every day.

is for a museum related specifically to the history of sexuality or has another connection to LGBTQ/HIV history. You’ll find erotic art museums, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the World AIDS Museum and over 20 more.

represents an archives location. Most are stand-alone LGBT archives but there are also notable university collections, LGBT libraries, and a few AIDS-related archives. There are around 50 of these so far.

is for a LGBTQ monument or memorial. This could be a pink triangle memorial plaque or a statue of a LGBTQ person, for example. There are about 60 of these on the map to start.

means that an AIDS memorial is at the location. There are about 120 of these in the world and we partnered with AIDSmemorial.info who provided us with the locations, images, and descriptions of each one.

So as you zoom in and out by pinching the screen like with any mobile device, give the map a second to load the hundreds of markers in that area. You can tell certain cities in the California example below have multiple locations in them.

At a closer level you’ll be able to see where those multiple markers actually are.

When you click on an icon (from any level of zoom), you’ll see a pop-up like one of the two below. It will either show you a description or related historical events. If you click on a related historical event it will take you to that event’s page, not the location page.

When you tap on the hyperlinked name of the location, you’ll come to the location’s full page with reference, related Quist events, description, and more.

When you tap on the top image banner, you’ll to see the full photo with the credit information and caption.

Whenever you tap on space on a country that isn’t a marker, you’ll get a list of all the historical events Quist has for that country like the example below.

Et voilà! Share the good news with your friends and enjoy.

We are a Maryland-based organization, located between Baltimore and DC. Today our area is full of history more than ever. In Baltimore, black people are asking for their right to live and in DC, same-sex couples are asking for their right to marry.

The majority of demonstrations for people of color's rights have been peaceful, just like the majority of demonstrations for LGBTQ civil rights have been peaceful. More people have participated in nonviolent marches in Baltimore than in looting. We ask that the LGBTQ community remember our own history when judging the actions of today.

Stonewall was a riot. A riot against police harassment and violence towards a particular set of people. A riot that involved that set of people destroying property in their own neighborhood. We cannot lift up Stonewall as the turning point for the LGBTQ rights movement and condemn the riots from Ferguson to Baltimore in the same breath. We don't condone violence, including violence by police that lead up to this breaking point.