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 [...]
Join The History Project's 2023 banned book club for an informal group discussion of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Save the date and start reading! This event is free and open to the public, and is part of our 2023 series of book club discussions dedicated to reading LGBTQ+ books [...]
In the style of gay liberation "be-ins" where the LGBTQ+ community would meet up to hang out and be gay in public, join The History Project for an LGBTQ+ picnic at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. We'll set up at 11AM and will be sharing self-guided LGBTQ+ history tour [...]
Join The History Project's Virtual Film Club for an informal group discussion of Basic Instinct. Director Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller is a cult classic but has been critiqued for its problematic portrayal of queer women in mainstream media. In the early 90s, queer media boycotted Basic Instinct and Silence of [...]
Join Elliot Marrow, Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate at UMass Boston, for a presentation titled "The More They Stay the Same: Connecting Trans History and Contemporary Attacks," discussing the connections between trans and queer histories and current attacks on trans and gender non-conforming people. Trans and queer resistance to being "cured," [...]
Kick-off Spring with Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival! The History Project is proud to co-sponsor a lineup of incredible LGBTQ+ films: Fiona Clark: Unafraid April 2, 5:00 PM – Brattle Theatre When Fiona Clark, a young queer photographer exhibits her photography of the LGBTQI community in 1975, she [...]
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Queer Women of New England Throughout History Join us in person at the Boston Public Library (Central -- Copley Square Branch) for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. A follow-up to our 2021 virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, this is the first in-person Edit-a-thon hosted by The [...]
BLACK. Narratives in Boston’s Black Queer & Trans History Building Legacy And Collecting Knowledge Tickets available via Boston Lesbigay Urban Foundation Black., the documentary & exhibit: documents & celebrates Boston's Black Queer & Trans History from 1970-2020. Spotlighting the History Makers & Pioneers who have shaped community, culture & change [...]
Join Invisible Histories Project for a free, virtual Queer History Teach In on February 25 from 11:00AM-2:30 PM CT. Queer information and resources are heavily under attack in libraries, K-12 schools, and universities across the U.S. Book challenges and bills banning the teaching of Queer history and information (or even [...]