A tennis club where several LGBTQ players competed in the U.S. Open prior to its 1978 relocation. The family home of Bronx native and transwoman Christine Jorgensen. Crazy Nanny’s, the lesbian bar that operated from 1991-2004 and attracted a racially-diverse crowd to its fundraisers fighting HIV and AIDS.

These sites are some of the roughly 85 New York City locations featured on travel app Vamonde in partnership with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, an initiative that chronicles stories of historical and cultural LGBTQ locations across the five boroughs. The collaboration, which launched June 19, employs geolocation to take users on interactive walking tours through the city’s queer history dating back to the 17th century.

App users can take trips through LGBTQ history in neighborhoods including Brooklyn, Harlem, Jackson Heights and Greenwich Village — the landmark locale of Stonewall. A transgender history tour spanning several city areas is also available.

“Buildings and physical locations tell stories in a different way, so [people] can have a connection to the landscape that they're walking in,” said Ken Lustbader, co-project director at NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. As thousands make their way to the city for WorldPride on June 30, the Project team is “hoping that people will come to New York and recognize that LGBT history is all around them and that New York City has this rich cultural landscape that can tell the history of LGBT New Yorkers and their influence on American culture and history.”

Each location on the app includes historically significant details, contemporary and archived photos, uploads of associated memorabilia and other multimedia elements.

The history-documenting project began in 2015. Its website highlights about 200 historical LGBTQ sites in New York City, and the initiative was the first in the city to document queer history, Lustbader said. About 350 additional locations are being researched by the team of three historic preservationists, who serve as co-directors, and Project Manager Amanda Davis.

The app launch coincides with the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, making the city’s LGBTQ history easily accessible to visiting crowds, Davis said. But she hopes the project will show users that queer history extends beyond the famous riots.

“We’re hoping to broaden peoples’ understanding of [LGBTQ] history and that it goes back much further than they may think,” Davis added. “It is more all-encompassing than just an uprising, though the uprising was incredibly important.”

Due to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s efforts, on June 18, the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission gave official landmark designations to six sites — the James Baldwin Residence, Audre Lorde Residence, LGBT Community Center, Women’s Liberation Center, Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse and Caffe Cino, widely known as the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway theater. The commemorations were the first in the city since the Stonewall Inn received landmark status in 2015, Lustbader said.

Lustbader said the app can support those not yet out by offering access to history “at home...without having to feel threatened or at risk.”

“We’re hoping that it removes a sense of isolation or shame and fosters a sense of identity and community by understanding the past,” he added. “They are not alone and they are part of the continuum of history.”

This app also helps garner attention for meaningful LGBTQ sites that appear insignificant, Davis said.

“Many histories of marginalized groups often are in buildings that you wouldn't look twice at,” she added. “You had to find something cheap or out of the way or indiscrete, and if you were an organization, you didn’t have the funds or the support — it just wasn’t possible at the time to have someone, an architect, create something for you.”

Davis said she hopes to continue documenting locations relevant to historically marginalized groups, like queer people of color and transpeople.

“History is always there to be reinterpreted and to be more fully documented,” Davis said, adding that the project can empower people by highlighting the histories and narratives of diverse groups.

For LGBTQ history buffs in Philadelphia, queer-owned Beyond the Bell Tours offers historical tours highlighting marginalized communities and runs a daily LGBTQ history tour in Center City.

A New Jersey charter school has volunteered to pilot the state’s upcoming LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum after a controversy last month resulting from covering up a student’s Pride mural at the request of its Catholic-church landlord.

Pride isn’t just for big cities anymore.

A town in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey are exemplifying the LGBTQ-plus community’s importance by hosting first-time Pride celebrations.

A state House of Representatives resolution urging witnesses of hate crimes to be “active bystanders” and intervene on behalf of victims continues to languish in a committee.

This May, physical therapist and longtime activist Jessica Rothchild was one of two Democratic candidates to excel in the Scranton City Council primary race. If she wins the general election in November, she will be the first openly gay person to hold such a position in Scranton.

A Northampton County trans woman of color who claimed she was wrongfully discharged from her nursing assistant job at an Alzheimer’s patient-care facility has settled her federal antibias case.

A 25-minute drive south on Interstate 676 — traffic-permitting — sits Woodbury, New Jersey, a suburb of 10,000, possibly on the brink of an LGBTQ-plus business boom, at least, if community leader Tony Doran has anything to do with it.

The historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta Incorporated issued a “diversity statement” in January that stated, “an individual must be a cis-gender woman” to join.

After facing backlash and hearing community criticisms, the organization released an updated policy on Sunday.

State legislators and members of the LGBTQ community and its allies held a news conference in Harrisburg this week to announce the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation, and to implore citizens and fellow legislators to support it.

House Bill 1404 and Senate Bill 614 would provide protection at work, in housing and in business services for LGBTQ people by adding sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to the state’s nondiscrimination law, which was originally written in 1955. The law still only covers race, religion, ancestry, age, sex, national origin and disability.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has approved legislation that would amend the state constitution to include specific protections for crime victims and their families.

The initiative was approved April 8 in a 190-8 vote and is headed for the state Senate Judiciary Committee, where it’s expected to receive a favorable vote. The full Senate is expected to approve the measure before it goes to voters on Nov. 5.

The amendment would enshrine within Pennsylvania’s constitution a “bill of rights” for crime victims, including the right to be notified of all court proceedings; to give input before a plea agreement is finalized; to be heard at sentencing and parole hearings; to receive financial restitution from the offender; and to regain personal belongings when they’re no longer needed as evidence.