Only about 1% of Wikipedia editors identify as transgender. Celebrate Trans Awareness Month with The History Project and the Digital Transgender Archive by improving the digital visibility of transgender people and dismantling Wikipedia's cis-heterosexual supremacy! Join our virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to learn how to edit and add articles to Wikipedia [...]
Join us for the 2021 HistoryMaker Awards on November 4, 2021.
A queer dive into 'Dracula' with Ranger Meaghan Michel of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site
Join author Peter Muise to explore the intersection of sex, queer people, and witchcraft in Massachusetts history and folklore.
Join The History Project and LGBT Elders of Color for an evening of fellowship, food, and storytelling.
Join The History Project and Mass Bears and Cubs for a Hanky Code Bear Tea! Dancing starts at 5PM, and there is no cover! The History Project will be on-site sharing information about the hanky code and will have hankies for sale! According to historian J. Raúl Cornier: The hanky [...]
Do you know your drag herstory? Join Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, authors of Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life in conversation with Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. RSVP on Eventbrite, a link to [...]
Join The History Project and Mass Historical for "In Print: Boston's LGBT Publications during the Gay Liberation Movement" with panelists Amy Hoffman, Dallas Denny, Shane Snowdon, Michael Bronski, moderated by Russ Lopez. June 3, 2021: 5:30-6:30PM Online Free RSVP: http://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=3481 Photograph: Men and women of Gay Community News holding a [...]
Join SpeakOUT Boston and The History Project for a night of storytelling about those transformative moments when we knew we were LGBTQ+ and there was no turning back. Coming out can happen gradually or all at once for members of the LGBTQ+ community, and is an ongoing process. In 2021 [...]
The Faulkner Morgan Archive and The History Project invite you to explore the Kentucky-Massachusetts LGBTQ connection with CD Collins. CD Collins is a writer and spoken-word artist. She is the frontwoman and songwriter/storyteller in the band Rockabetty, a group influenced by country, bluegrass, blues, and jazz. This event will include [...]