Recording available on YouTube. In 1973, a small group of gay men and lesbians founded "Gay Community News," a local Boston newsletter to report on LGBTQ+ events. That community-driven newsletter grew into a major newspaper with an international readership. Join us to explore the arc of GCN's history and its [...]
Join The History Project's 2023 banned book club for an informal group discussion of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Save the date and start reading! Please note this is a rescheduled date (due to technical difficulties on the original date). If you registered for the original date, please re-register for [...]
Join The History Project and SpeakOUT Boston for a sampling of "SpeakOUT TV," a weekly series highlighting LGBTQ+ news and culture, that aired on public access television from 1994 to 2003. Our discussion will explore that while the medium has changed, the impact and importance of LGBTQ+ storytelling has not [...]
Join The History Project and author Patrick E. Horrigan for a reading from his new novel, American Scholar. AMERICAN SCHOLAR tells the story of writer and professor James Fitzgerald whose life takes on uncanny parallels with the subject of his new book, F.O. Matthiessen, the well-known gay Harvard Professor and [...]
Join The History Project's 2023 banned book club for an informal group discussion of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Save the date and start reading! This event is free and open to the public, and is part of our 2023 series of book club discussions dedicated to reading LGBTQ+ books [...]
Join The History Project's Virtual Film Club for an informal group discussion of Basic Instinct. Director Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller is a cult classic but has been critiqued for its problematic portrayal of queer women in mainstream media. In the early 90s, queer media boycotted Basic Instinct and Silence of [...]
Join Elliot Marrow, Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate at UMass Boston, for a presentation titled "The More They Stay the Same: Connecting Trans History and Contemporary Attacks," discussing the connections between trans and queer histories and current attacks on trans and gender non-conforming people. Trans and queer resistance to being "cured," [...]
Join The History Project for a panel discussion celebrating the new Boston Gay Men's Chorus documentary Music Triumphs Homophobia, featuring award-winning Music Triumphs Homophobia filmmakers Craig Coogan (Writer and Producer) and Michael Willer (Writer and Director) alongside Boston Gay Men's Chorus' Sarah Shoffner (Executive Director) and Reuben Reynolds (Music Director) [...]
Join The History Project for a talk with Mev Miller, Lesbrarian & Instigator, who will introduce Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library - a newly forming community-based venture in Rhode Island for the New England region. Wanderground will provide vibrant community gathering spaces to collect, preserve, and bring to life Lesbian activisms, artistic [...]
Start off your 2023 reading with The History Project! Join our book club for an informal group discussion of All Boys Aren't Blue, journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson's series of personal essays about coming of age as a queer Black man. We’ll send out a list of discussion [...]