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 Curtis Chin for a conversation & book signing to honor the launch of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. 10/22 | 6-7pm | Porter Square Books in conversation with Rani Neutill 10/24 | 6-7pm | Boston Athenaeum in conversation with Amber Payne Nineteen eighties Detroit was [...]
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 us as we recognize the community members and organizations who make history every day. The 2023 HistoryMaker Awards will recognize the outstanding lifetime commitment and impact of Gary Bailey. Dr. Bailey is a social work leader and educator, a longtime advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS, and an activist [...]
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER - RAIN DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED In the style of gay liberation "be-ins" where the LGBTQ+ community would meet up to hang out and exist in public space, join The History Project for an LGBTQ+ picnic on Cambridge Common. Drop-in anytime between 11AM and 2PM, and [...]
Join The History Project for a walking tour of LGBTQ history on Beacon Hill. Learn about historic LGBTQ civil and political rights organizations, protests, bar culture, and the lives of activists and boundary-pushers, including Prescott Townsend, Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields, and the Boston Bohemians. Tickets are available via [...]
In Partnership with Massachusetts Historical Society Featuring speakers: Arline Isaacson, Isaacson Political Consulting Carmel Valentine, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition Tanya Neslusan, Mass Equality This program looks at how the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the political sphere has led to the current moment. Panelists will examine what issues were deemed [...]
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 [...]
In Partnership with Massachusetts Historical Society Featured speakers: Mark Robert Schneider Samantha Gross, The Boston Globe Byron Rushing Massachusetts has a long history leading the way for LGBTQ+ rights, from Gerry Studds, the first openly gay Congressman to the issuance of the first same sex marriage license in the country [...]
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 [...]