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October 2024

Arlington LGBTQIA+ History Month Panel Please join us on Oct 9 for informative presentations and panel on LGBTQIA+ history in the Boston area, featuring Sarah Boyer, author of Coming Out, Becoming Ourselves: Lesbian Stories from the Boston Daughters of Bilitis, 1969-1999 and The History Project. Location: Arlington Senior Center, 27 [...]

October 2024

This virtual "walking" tour will take visitors through the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the West End, primarily around the North Slope neighborhood. From the late nineteenth century onward, this neighborhood was a hub for LGBTQ+ people in Boston, even when much of their history and activities flew under [...]

September 2024

Get ready for a provocative and playful journey into the naughtier side of queer history! We’re excited to present “Smut Share,” an 18+ after-hours event that brings together two powerhouse queer archives from Eastern and Western Massachusetts. The History Project and Sexual Minorities Archives are teaming up for a one-of-a-kind [...]

August 2024

Join Margaret Vandenburg, the author of Craze, for a virtual talk and book launch. — Craze by Margaret Vandenburg Fresh off the boat from Roaring Twenties Paris, Henrietta “Henri” Adams lands in New York in the midst of the Queer Craze that is taking the city by storm. An art [...]

June 2024

Join Beau McCall, the artist featured in the show REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT at Childs Gallery, for a live oral history collection, facilitated by Gary Bailey - winner of the 2023 HistoryMaker award. RSVP on Eventbrite. — Beau McCall's, REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT, spotlights the Black LGBTQ+ experience in America [...]

June 2024

Join All She Wrote and The History Project for a conversation with Chloe O. Davis, author of The Queens’ English! Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Virtual Event on Zoom, register with All She Wrote. This young readers adaptation of The Queens’ English is a nonfiction illustrated [...]

May 2024

Join David Grundy, the author of Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, for a virtual talk in conversation with Michael Bronski and Julie Enszer. Please note this event has been rescheduled from 5/16 to 5/23 at 6PM. RSVP on Eventbrite. — Providing [...]

March 2024

Please join The History Project and Historic New England for a lecture about early 20th century lifelong female partnership. A surprising number of turn-of-the-twentieth-century professional women joined together in lifelong female partnership. The explanation for this trend can be found in a combination of feminism, gender realities of marriage, work [...]

March 2024

Join The History Project for a Virtual Gallery Talk accompanying the exhibition As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, with curator Jackson Davidow. RSVP via Eventbrite. As the World Burns explores the relationship among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston, and accompanies the [...]

February 2024

Kick off your 2024 reading and join The History Project's Banned Book Club for an informal group discussion of Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison. Save the date and start reading! This event is free and open to the public, and is part of our 2024 series of Book Club discussions [...]

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