🎃 Spooky Book Club: A Queer Twist on Poe’s Classic Tale 🎃 Get ready to dive into the eerie, unsettling world of "What Moves the Dead" by T. Kingfisher, a nonbinary reimagining of Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. 🕸️📖 On Wednesday, October 30th, join [...]
🕸️ Unlock the Haunted Histories of Queer Gothic Literature! 🕸️ Just in time for LGBTQ+ History Month, join National Park Ranger Meaghan Michel for a virtual journey into the eerie, shadowy worlds of queerness in Gothic literature. 🌈📚 From the flickering candlelight of 18th-century haunted castles to the foggy moors [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]