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April 2024

We're Proud to Co-Present a Lineup of Queer Films with Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival! Desire Lines Sunday 4/7 | 5pm | Coolidge Corner Theatre Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through the LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel [...]

March 2024

Join Tufts University Art Galleries at the SMFA / Boston for a screening of Playland (2023), directed by Georden West, “a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, hybrid film centered around the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café.” Following the screening, guest curator [...]

March 2024

Join us for The History Project’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, dedicated to celebrating Women's History Month and amplifying the stories of remarkable queer women who have shaped the history of New England. Learn more about local queer historical figures and contribute to enhancing their digital presence by editing articles on Wikipedia. Regardless [...]

October 2023

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 [...]

June 2023

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 [...]

June 2023

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 [...]

May 2023

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 [...]

March 2023

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 [...]

March 2023

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 [...]

February 2023

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 [...]

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