The rise of crowdsourced and participatory digital platforms which aim to make visible the experiences of otherwise marginalised people are significant within the broader landscape of digitally mediated community spaces. One example of such media is Queering the Map, a digital storymapping platform where users anonymously pin ‘queer moments’ and memories to places. While the mediation of affect and intimacy in digital spaces among queer people is increasingly attended to in scholarly work, the cartographic and archival remains hitherto underexplored. Drawing on an analysis of almost 2000 micro-stories geolocated to Australia, in this article we explore various aspects of story contribution that situate Queering the Map as a lively cartographic archive. Rather than necessarily anonymous (as the platform dictates), the posts, we argue, entail various deliberated directions or gestures, encoded for audiences: what we term stories for someone. We highlight these publicly private stories’ connective and affective underpinnings, and the political potentialities (and problems) therein for queer belonging and community-building. In doing so we seek to contribute to scholarship on digital archives, crowdsourcing, and advance conceptualisations of digital intimacies.

旨在使其他边缘化人群的经历可见的众包和参与式数字平台的兴起在数字化社区空间的广阔前景中具有重要意义。这种媒体的一个例子是Queering the Map，这是一个数字故事地图平台，用户可以在其中匿名地将“酷酷的时刻”和回忆固定在某个地方。尽管在学者工作中越来越多的人关注酷儿们在数字空间中的情感和亲密关系，但制图和档案至今仍未得到充分研究。通过对地理分布到澳大利亚的近2000个微型故事的分析，在本文中，我们探索了故事构筑的各个方面，这些故事都构成了Queering Map作为生动的制图档案。我们认为，帖子不一定是匿名的（如平台指示的那样），而是需要为受众编码的各种经过深思熟虑的方向或手势：我们所说的故事是指某人。我们重点介绍这些公开私人故事的联系和情感基础，以及其中的潜在政治地位（和问题），以支持酷儿归属和社区建设。在此过程中，我们力求为数字档案，众包和促进数字亲密关系的概念方面的奖学金做出贡献。