"The Gay Marriage Thing" at the Peabody Essex
Join director Stephanie Higgins as she introduces her film and leads a panel discussion afterwards. Thursday, June 26, 6 pm, Morse Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Panelists include: State Representative Byron Rushing; Dr. Chrys Ingraham, author of White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture; Dr. Robin Abrahams, author of the popular "Miss Conduct" social advice column for the Boston Globe; Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn, authors of the new book Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages.
Click here to see the invitation/flyer.
The History of the Safe Schools Movement in Massachusetts, 1987-2007
The History Project and Stonewall Communities Co-Sponsor Oral History Course on the Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) Movement.
April 8 through May 13 (Tuesday afternoons)
Stonewall's Lifelong Learning Institute
at Wheelock College
The History Project, in conjunction with Stonewall Communities, is co-sponsoring an oral history course documenting the experiences of the pioneers of the gay/straight alliance (GSA) movement. The course, untitled "The History of the Safe Schools Movement in Massachusetts, 1987-2007," is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. The course will take place on Tuesday afternoons from April 8 through May 13 at Stonewall's Lifelong Learning Institute, located at Wheelock College.
The course will be co-led by Bob Parlin of Newton South High School, a respected teacher, an early supporter of the GSA at Newton South, and a co-founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The course will combine speaker presentations with field-based activities focused on conducting oral history interviews with activists from the GSA movement. Information documented through the course will be used in a June public panel on the relationship between the GSA movement and other social justice movements. The History Project will also use those documents to help create a study guide that will be distributed to high school social studies classes.
For more information about the course, please visit
www.stonewallcommunities.com
Or contact Michael Connolly, co-leader of the course:
mconnolly@cambridgeconsulting.com
617.491.8020
Photos from Recent THP Events
On Saturday, March 15, The History Project presented
the Improper Bostonians slideshow at Boston PrimeTimers.
On Sunday, March 16th, The History Project's Neal Kane moderated a panel discussion following a performance of Terrence McNally's play Some Men.
Photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
The panel (l-r): Ed Ford of Boston PrimeTimers, Jim Campbell of Boston Living Center, Neal Kane of The History Project, and Michael Connolly of Stonewall Communities
Stephen Barker's "The Archivist's Wig" at Bernard Toale Gallery
through March 29
at the Bernard Toale Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue in Boston's South End
Stephen Barker explores sex in the Cold War and the accumulated cultural memory that shapes it, then and now. In a densely layered show of wallpaper, objects, and black and white photographs, "The Archivist's Wig" focuses on the 'dirty, drunk, and idle' Guy Burgess, notable for his non-stop homosexual cruising and infamous for his double role as British diplomat and Russian spy. He is the work's anti-hero, Don Juan, and destabilizing lout, whose ultimate act of disloyalty was to defect in 1951.
Amid harshly lit images of book covers, torn boxes, and piles of pornographic film canisters, he?s seen indirectly, as if in post-coital reflection: through the eyes of the FBI, or through a piece of his car, or a gallery of tattooed lovers.
For more information about this exhibition, contact:
Bernard Toale Gallery
www.bernardtoalegallery.com
617-482-2477
A Special Performance and Discussion of Terrence McNally's SOME MEN, March 16th
On Sunday, March 16th the Boston History Project is teaming up with SpeakEasy Stage for a very special event.
At 3 pm, join us for a performance of Terrence McNally’s acclaimed Off-Broadway play SOME MEN, a kaleidoscopic look back over the last century of gay American history, from the end of World War I to Stonewall to the present day struggle for marriage and equal rights.
Nine men, all guests at a contemporary same-sex wedding, reflect back on their lives and the lives of their predecessors in this funny and heartfelt epic that looks at the forces that have shaped gay relationships from the 1920s up to the present day.
Please note that the play contains nudity and adult language and situations, and is intended for mature audiences.
Following the performance, please plan to stay to hear some stories about "the way it was" for gay men here in Boston when a panel of local cultural historians share their reaction to the play as well as reminisce about how things have changed for gay men here in the Hub.
Scheduled panelists include Michael Connolly of Stonewall Communities, and Ed Ford from Boston Primetimers.
Tickets for this special event are just $40 (regularly $50) for History Project affiliates and their guests.
To get this special discount, you must call SpeakEasy Marketing Director Jim Torres at 617-482-3279. Note that this special offer is not available online, or by walking-up to the box office.
We hope you will join us for an "historic" event!
Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive
See a work-in-progress screening...
Saturday - March 8, 2008 - 7:00 PM
The Cambridge Senior Center
806 Massachusetts Aveune
Central Square - Cambridge
(across from City Hall)
Employing multiple perspectives, this documentary video tells the story of a little-known but highly significant event in the history of the Second Wave of the women's movement.
The 1971 takeover of a Harvard University building was the surprise ending of that year's International Woman's Day march. The occupation of 888 Memorial Drive by hundreds of women for ten days embodied within it many of the hopes, glories, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism.
One of the few such takeovers by women for women, this action proved transformative for the participants, led directly to the establishment of the longest continually operating Women's Center in the U.S., and sparked the development of many other feminist and community organizations in the Boston area and nationally.
Admission to this event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact:
888 Women's History Project, Inc.
libbyarchives@yahoo.com
or
The History Project: Documenting LGBT Boston
617.266.7733
andrew.elder@historyproject.org
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Evening co-sponsored by: Cambridge Women's Center, The History Project: Documenting LGBT Boston, and the Cambridge Women's Commision, Human Rights Commission, and Peace Commission
THP Launches Online Version of Above + Beyond: Our Community Responds to HIV/AIDS
Check out the new online exhibit here.
Thanks in part to funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Bureau and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, “Above and Beyond,” The History Project’s successful 2006 exhibit on the local community’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, is now available online.
For the past several months, volunteers Bruce Bell, Pat Gozemba, Stewart Landers, and Pat Ould have been working with THP board member Libby Bouvier and Karen Simon of the New York City-based design firm Simon Does to develop an interactive version of the exhibit that captures the focus, energy, and depth of the original.
The exhibit is online THP launched the virtual exhibit on Friday, November 30, 2007 in commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 1.
For more information, call 617.266.7733 or email info@historyproject.org.
Check out the new online exhibit here.
Ongoing Projects: Do You Know...?Help THP in our ongoing search for information, memories, stories and anecdotes on a variety of topics related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered history of Boston.
THP collects materials documenting LGBT Boston including:
- flyers
- brochures
- newsletters
- t shirts
- photographs
- buttons and pins from issues, demonstrations, celebrations, political candidates (both LGBT & LGBT allies)
- bar materials (buttons and pins, matchboxes, glasses, t shirts etc)
- marriage materials - photos, invites, announcements
Right now we're looking for information on...
- Cavana's Bar, on Tremont Street. Specifically, we're interested in the names of the owners, bartenders and bouncers who worked there.
- The Cave, a bar at 19 Boylston Place. We know it opened in the late 1940s and closed around 1971.
- Issues of The Esplanade, a Boston newspaper, to fill the gaps in our collection.
- Issues of Tommy's and The Guide.
- 1996 Boston Pride button (in turquoise) to add to our collection.
If you have any information to share on any of these topics, please contact THP at 617.266.7733 or email us.
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