Join The History Project for an LGBTQ+ be-in with self-guided tours and historical reenactments. BYOP (Bring your own picnic!)

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 [...]

On Sunday, September 29, 2019, following the 3:00 p.p. performance of CHOIR BOY, SpeakEasy Stage Company and The History Project present a special forum entitled “Black, Queer, and Spiritual.” Simmons Professor Gary Bailey will moderate this special conversation featuring Reverend Irene Monroe, Reverend Jay Williams, Corey Yarbrough. The conversation will [...]

SpeakOUT and The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston invite you to join us on November 27th in honor of Veteran’s Day to share the stories of LGBTQ veterans with a moderated question and answer session. The History Project will also share a short history of LGBTQ people and the military.

Rare among historic house museums, Beauport tells the story of a gay man in the early twentieth century: celebrated interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. This special tour sheds light on Sleeper's family and friends and includes readings from books and letters written by Sleeper and his social circle. After the [...]

George Nixon Black was exceptional for a gay man in the nineteenth century. Boston's largest taxpayer, Black's great privilege contrasted with his awareness that his sexual orientation represented a danger. While Black was probably content to slip unnoticed into history, Kragsyde, his now-demolished house at Lobster Cove in Manchester-by-the-Sea, was [...]

The history of pride is filled with love and laughter, but also protests and politics. Join The History Project, Boston's LGBTQ community archives, for a storytelling night where speakers will share their Pride experiences, both riotously funny and downright riotous, with an emphasis on Boston. See photographs from this event [...]

Historic New England and The History Project invite you to explore Henry Sleeper's "bachelor house." The term "bachelor house" suggested a distinctive type of home - and homeowner - to early twentieth-century audiences, who understood the phrase as a coded reference to homosexuality. Join Tripp Evans, professor of art history [...]

A joint lecture by Stephen Shapiro of Bennington College and Marvin Kabakoff of The History Project How has the phenomenon of cruising evolved over time? What can we learn about the men who sought diversion in the public parks of Paris three centuries ago? How can their stories enlighten our [...]