As a result of their marginal and dispersed nature, LGTBIQ+ people and groups lack inherited genealogies. As a concept and as a political practice, such genealogies are crucial to support the transmission of knowledge that guarantees their survival as a community. For this reason, queer theory and activism have struggle to create archives that treasure the memory of dissidence and the imagination of alternatives to hierarchies and normativities that have attempted to discipline the exceptional and the odd. Recently, digital media have favored online participatory projects that, through websites and applications, rescue and record the legacy of several LGTBIQ+ generations, simultaneously locating their knowledge and experiences in the territory through the making of atlases and cartographies of safe and meaningful spaces for these groups.
This paper addresses three cases of digital archives that help trace genealogies of resistance, sociability or the celebration of difference and diversity. All three exemplify different ways of collecting and caring for records of queer spaces, as well as catalyzing ecologies capable of challenging the hegemonic heteropatriarchal and capitalist narrative that has restricted the ways of being and feeling in the public space of the Global North.