2022 HistoryMaker Awards
Celebrating Arline Isaacson and KJ Rawson at the 2022 HistoryMaker Awards
2022 HistoryMaker Awards
Celebrating Arline Isaacson and KJ Rawson at the 2022 HistoryMaker Awards
Documenting Black Queer Boston
Help us collect, update, and share the history of Boston’s Black queer community
Documenting Black Queer Boston
Help us collect, update, and share the history of Boston’s Black queer community
Members of Black and White Men Together march down Boylston St. Photograph by Susan D. Fleischmann, GCN Collection.
Chronicles of a Community
The History Project maintains one of the largest independent LGBTQ archival collections in the U.S.
Chronicles of a Community
The History Project maintains one of the largest independent LGBTQ archival collections in the U.S.
Combahee River Collective at march for Bellana Borde (late 1979, early 1980) to protest police brutality directed at communities of color. Photograph by Susan Fleischmann.
Hanky Panky
The hanky code was a covert sartorial code used predominately by queer men in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Simply put, a bandana is worn in one’s back pocket for the purposes of sexual signaling.
Hanky Panky
The hanky code was a covert sartorial code used predominately by queer men in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Simply put, a bandana is worn in one’s back pocket for the purposes of sexual signaling.
Poster image for Hanky Panky flagging party and History Project fundraiser from 2019, courtesy of Bren Den and Adam Fearing.
Asserting Our Place in the Historical Narrative
The History Project honors a community whose lives were excluded from our nation’s history for centuries
Asserting Our Place in the Historical Narrative
The History Project honors a community whose lives were excluded from our nation’s history for centuries
Pictured: Jim McGrath (center) with Ray Kennard (left) and a singer named Harold, likely at Playland in the 1950s or 1960s.