The History Project is excited to invite you to a private virtual screening of the award-winning new documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won! The film will be available to screen online from [...]
The History Project invites the public to attend a panel and discussion on the history of LGBTQ migration in the 20th and 21st centuries. Panelists include Eithne Luibheid, Ph.D. (Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Arizona), Karma R. Chavez, Ph.D. (Associate Professor and [...]
Please join The History Project and author Melissa J. Homestead for a discussion of her book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis. The recording is now available on YouTube. Links shared in the chat included: The Only Wonderful Things - available from Oxford [...]
Do you know your drag herstory? Join Zola! in conversation with The History Project, Boston's LGBTQ community archives. Zola is originally from Massachusetts and was a Show Director for Boston's only 7 night a week Show Bar, Jacque's Cabaret on Broadway. Zola also worked at every bar that was ever [...]
Did you know that only about 18% of all biographies on Wikipedia are about womxn? Help The History Project to improve the digital visibility of womxn and celebrate International Women’s Day by editing and adding articles on Wikipedia. Join the very first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by The History Project and [...]
A recording of this event is available upon request. Email info@historyproject.org for more information. Join author Allie Therin in conversation with Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project Allie Therin is a writer and avid reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and romance. She also is, or has been, a bookseller [...]
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gloucester’s Eastern Point attracted Beauport decorator Henry Sleeper, as well as a glittering circle of visiting artists, collectors, politicians, socialites, and silent-film stars. At the center of this social whirl stood Red Roof, the home of noted Harvard economist and eventual Massachusetts Congressman [...]
Join K.J. Rawson and Nikki Tantum for a conversation about the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA). Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials [...]
The recording of this event is available on YouTube. Join journalists Cristela Guerra (WBUR) and Kate Sosin (The 19th) for a conversation about their recent research and reporting on the life, murder, and legacy of Rita Hester. Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman, was killed in her Allston apartment in [...]
The popularity of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956), Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City (1978-2014), and Hanya Yanagihara’s recent hit A Little Life (2015) indicates the profound connection people feel with LGBTQ+ fiction. But who authored the first gay American novel? Scholars have proposed origins for the tradition in Margaret [...]