Join The History Project and Mass Bears and Cubs for a Hanky Code Bear Tea! Dancing starts at 5PM, and there is no cover! The History Project will be on-site sharing information about the hanky code and will have hankies for sale! According to historian J. Raúl Cornier: The hanky [...]
Do you know your drag herstory? Join Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, authors of Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life in conversation with Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. RSVP on Eventbrite, a link to [...]
Join The History Project and Mass Historical for "In Print: Boston's LGBT Publications during the Gay Liberation Movement" with panelists Amy Hoffman, Dallas Denny, Shane Snowdon, Michael Bronski, moderated by Russ Lopez. June 3, 2021: 5:30-6:30PM Online Free RSVP: http://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=3481 Photograph: Men and women of Gay Community News holding a [...]
Join SpeakOUT Boston and The History Project for a night of storytelling about those transformative moments when we knew we were LGBTQ+ and there was no turning back. Coming out can happen gradually or all at once for members of the LGBTQ+ community, and is an ongoing process. In 2021 [...]
The Faulkner Morgan Archive and The History Project invite you to explore the Kentucky-Massachusetts LGBTQ connection with CD Collins. CD Collins is a writer and spoken-word artist. She is the frontwoman and songwriter/storyteller in the band Rockabetty, a group influenced by country, bluegrass, blues, and jazz. This event will include [...]
The History Project is excited to invite you to a private virtual screening of the award-winning new documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won! The film will be available to screen online from [...]
The History Project invites the public to attend a panel and discussion on the history of LGBTQ migration in the 20th and 21st centuries. Panelists include Eithne Luibheid, Ph.D. (Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Arizona), Karma R. Chavez, Ph.D. (Associate Professor and [...]
Please join The History Project and author Melissa J. Homestead for a discussion of her book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis. The recording is now available on YouTube. Links shared in the chat included: The Only Wonderful Things - available from Oxford [...]
Do you know your drag herstory? Join Zola! in conversation with The History Project, Boston's LGBTQ community archives. Zola is originally from Massachusetts and was a Show Director for Boston's only 7 night a week Show Bar, Jacque's Cabaret on Broadway. Zola also worked at every bar that was ever [...]
Did you know that only about 18% of all biographies on Wikipedia are about womxn? Help The History Project to improve the digital visibility of womxn and celebrate International Women’s Day by editing and adding articles on Wikipedia. Join the very first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by The History Project and [...]