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February 2025 | Out of the Archives

Author Talk with Frankie de la Cretaz 🏈 Celebrate the Trailblazing Women of Football History! Thurs, Feb. 6th @ 7:00 pm ET Virtual via Zoom Get ready for a Super Bowl of queer sports history as we welcome award-winning journalist Frankie de la Cretaz (they/them) for an exciting talk about [...]

January 2025 |

LGBTQ+ Youth QuAC Back! Join us for a night of conversation and community across generations of LGBTQ+ activists. Celebrate histories of queer and trans resistance and learn ways to get involved with BAGLY’s new Queer Activist College (QuAC). Special guests include: Massachusetts Representative and Trans Emergency Fund Executive Director Samantha [...]

January 2025 | Out of the Archives

Author Talk with Kimm Topping Celebrate the Trailblazers of a New Generation! Join Kimm Topping (they/them), award-winning educator, historian, and author of Generation Queer, for an inspiring virtual book talk. Discover the stories of 30 LGBTQ+ youth activists shaping a more inclusive and equitable world through their creativity, courage, and [...]

December 2024 | Out of the Archives

Queer History Book Swap + Social 📚✹ Celebrate queer history, community, and connection! 🗓 When: Thursday, December 19th, 7:00 PM EST 📍 Where: Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Floor 2, Boston, MA This FREE event invites you to bring one LGBTQ+ history book as the cost of admission—whether [...]

December 2024 |

Live Oral History with Demita Frazier: A Radical Legacy in Conversation Join Demita Frazier, a founding member of the groundbreaking Combahee River Collective and recipient of the 2024 HistoryMaker Award, for an exclusive live oral history collection. In this intimate conversation, facilitated by C. Shawn McGuffey of The History Project’s [...]

December 2024 |

Celebrate the Season with The History Project! An Evening of LGBTQ+ History, Holiday Cheer, and Community 2024 has been an incredible year for The History Project, and we want to toast it with you! Join us at Club CafĂ© for an unforgettable holiday party where we’ll reflect on our milestones [...]

November 2024 | Out of the Archives

Join us for a tantalizing journey into the world of Lesbian Pulp fiction, where love, desire, and rebellion simmered beneath salacious covers. This virtual event, hosted in collaboration with three renowned queer archives—Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library, Gerber/Hart LGBTQ+ Library and Archives, and The History Project—will explore how these novels, often dismissed [...]

November 2024 | Out in Public

Help Us Build a Community-Generated Archive of 20 Years of Marriage Equality in Massachusetts The History Project is embarking on an exciting tour across the Boston Public Libraries to document and preserve personal stories from the last 20 years of marriage equality in Massachusetts. While the legal battles are well [...]

November 2024 |

Wicked Queer WQ: Docs celebrates the rich and vibrant true stories of the LGBTQ+ community and the ever-evolving art of the documentary. The History Project will be at the following films: ANY OTHER WAY THE JACKIE SHANE STORY Saturday Nov 16 @ 2:30 pm A House Is Not A Disco [...]

November 2024 |

Join local author and educator Neema Avashia to discuss her memoir Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer Asian American teacher and [...]