Queering the Map of Glasgow

by Gray Crosbie, Mel Reeve, Ely Percy

Queering the Map of Glasgow was inspired by the community generated mapping project Queering the Map. Knight Errant Press took this idea home through stories that chart the fictional, real and liminal spaces and moments lost in the folds of the map. This is a map unlike any other: adding detail and fable it is neither complete nor fixed, it is a fold in the world. And a queer one at that.

12 authors explore queer Glasgow through short stories, poetry and an essay in this small collection. The first publication of the Wicked Wee Bks imprint.

Genres: Queer

68 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2018

Reviews

[Alice-Elizabeth (Prolific Reader Alice) · Rating 4 out of 5]

An anthology of LGBTQIA+ authors writing about the Queer side and discoveries of Glasgow? Yes, please! I ordered my own copy directly from the publishers' Knight Errant Press who are based in Glasgow and spent a lovely afternoon reading all of the stories included. It was memorable, atmospheric and historical with well-known attractions across the city included. My favourite story was a ghostly ouija board used in some spooky loos and reminded me so much of the TV show Most Haunted. Really good read!

[Siobhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Queering the Map of Glasgow is a collection of writing that depicts LGBT space - both real and fictional - in Glasgow, inspired by the Queering the Map project that geolocates moments, memories and histories in relation to space. The spaces in the book including bars, toilets, train stations, buses, and the Necropolis. The pieces are all varied, but have a real sense of place, adding to a kind of literary map as well as a shared community one.

As with many anthologies, different people will find specific resonances in certain stories (a personal favourite was one about the Gorbals Vampire), but overall it also comes together and shows how people can have a lot of stories, whether fictional or not, about a specific city and the places in it. It also shows how ideas of space and history don't have to be steeped in theory and thought, but can also be a practical exercise, a way of bringing together different writers and stories.