As Halloween draws near, come join The History Project as we share spooky and sensual stories and readings about LGBTQ people and the occult. Spooky snacks will be provided. Featured speakers TO BE ANNOUNCED. Doors and reception at 6:00pm. Reading begins at 6:30.
In 1980s Boston, three lesbians – a nurse, a civil rights lawyer and a therapist – fought against the stigma and discrimination experienced by people caught in the AIDS epidemic and gave care and dignity to those who were dying. Join us as we watch When the World Changed, followed [...]
Join History Project board member and author Russ Lopez as he reads from and discusses his new book, The Hub of the Gay Universe. Since the coming of Europeans to Massachusetts in 1620, LGBTQ people have been an important presence. From the Trans Day of Remembrance to same-sex marriage, Boston [...]
Jha D Williams will discuss creating the only monthly open mic dedicated to the LGBTQI community of color and its allies. "If You Can Feel It, You Can Speak It" is a non-discriminating, non-pretentious, non-elitist platform for one and all to express themselves! Doors and reception at 6:00pm, talk begins [...]
Back by popular demand.. Join us to explore - and play! - different LGBTQ-themed board games from our archives! From Do You Know Enough (note the acronym...) to The Rainbow Gayme to feminist jigsaw puzzles, The History Project has a host of interesting, unique, and maybe even fun LGBTQ-themed games [...]
In the 80's and 90's you could see graffiti just about everywhere in Boston: on the Statehouse, on the Longfellow Bridge, all over Harvard Square, in the South End, on Mass Ave. and almost every street. Mary Leno's lively slideshow will revisit older graffiti messages, and show what has being [...]
As Halloween draws near, come join The History Project as we share spooky and sensual stories and readings about women loving women and the occult. Spooky snacks will be provided. Featured speakers: Joan Ilacqua and Bren Cole.
Join us as author Patrick E. Horrigan reads from his new novel Pennsylvania Station (Lethe Press) and discusses how he weaves together the history of New York's old Penn Station, the historic preservation movement, and the pre-Stonewall gay rights movement.
Join us for a reading by David Scondras, Boston’s first openly gay city councilor, from of his 4-volume memoir, Angels, Liars, and Thieves. David Scondras was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in a Greek immigrant community, speaking Greek as his first language. He graduated valedictorian, winning a scholarship to attend Harvard [...]
While writing Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, author Robert Fieseler spent much time and effort recreating the context of "the closet" of 1973 - a societal condition that now puzzles LGBTQ+ youth, as well as many allies who prefer [...]