1 Hybrid spaces and geolocative mobile apps for LGBTQ heritage Visa Immonen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7616-500X Cite: Immonen, Visa 2025. Hybrid Spaces, and Geolocative Mobile Apps for LGBTQ Heritage. In Herman, Ana-Maria (ed.), Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 169–188. Abstract: In the 2010s, several geolocative platforms focusing on LGBTQ heritage were launched. The heritage of these minority communities is characterised by fluidity and invisibility and subsequently alternative patterns of mobility. To tease out how LGBTQ heritage apps and websites deal with this demanding legacy, 22 of such platforms are examined, and their strategies of movement are compared with the mobilities suggested by dating apps, and other contemporary modes of motion. Although the platforms are restricted by standardised techniques of representing space and movement, they display a variety of approaches, motivations and aims – some of them adapting to the demands of official heritage and others moving more against such institutionalised notions of heritage. LGBTQ heritage platforms have a complex relationship with movement, which resonates with other forms of LGBTQ mobility, and potentially brings out the disorienting forces of desire in heritage. Introduction Handheld mobile phones facilitate their users’ mobility, but in the last two decades, the introduction of smartphones and global positioning systems (GPS) has also made a significant impact on how movement and social interaction intersect in contemporary societies. Such online mapping applications as Google Maps navigate us through the landscape, and location-based social networking and dating apps have transformed how people encounter each other. Correspondingly, combining online mapping with geographic information systems (GIS) has led to the launch of applications that help users to discover heritage in their surroundings (e.g., Immonen 2022). In this chapter, I examine geolocative platforms focusing on LGBTQ communities. Their heritage is typically characterised by fluidity and invisibility and subsequently alternative patterns of mobility. To tease out how LGBTQ heritage apps and websites deal with this demanding legacy, I will examine 22 of such platforms, and compare their strategies of movement with the mobilities suggested by dating apps as well as other modes of motion among LGBTQ communities. I will argue that the heritage platforms have a varied relationship with movement, which resonates with