🌈 Pride Was a Riot: The Story of the Stonewall Uprisings and Organizing in Boston Since 1968 📅 Monday, June 9, 2025 | ⏰ 7:00 PM ET | 💻 Virtual Talk via Zoom 🎫 Tickets available via Eventbrite. 🔥 Pride wasn’t born in a parade—it was born in protest. In [...]
Join us for Rainbow Sprinkles, a sweet celebration of LGBTQ+ history, community, and connection! Presented in collaboration with The History Project, Boston Public Library, and Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly. RSVP via the Boston Public Library. This intergenerational ice cream social brings together LGBTQ+ people of all ages to [...]
Join All She Wrote Books at on Thursday, June 5th at 7:00pm, as we host writer Caro de Robertis and archivist, queer historian Mik Hamilton from The History Project! They will discuss de Robertis new book, So Many Stars, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation [...]
📢 10 - 11am 🏳️⚧️ Pride Rally 🏳️🌈 Theme: Be Visible, Be Loud. Join however you're comfortable — bring signs or a flag, or just bring yourself! We’ll be starting outside on the Plaza at 10am, and then moving into City Hall starting around 10:30am. 📍Boston City Hall Plaza (outside) [...]
🏳️🌈Tracing the arc of Boston Pride’s history Join us Thursday, May 29 at Porter Square Books for a timely and reflective conversation with Daniel Joseph Gonzalez, author of The Rise and Fall of Boston Pride. He will be in conversation with Matisse DuPont, Director of Engagement & Advancement at The [...]
✨ A legendary life, brought to the page by a revolutionary voice. Join us Tuesday, May 20 at the Cambridge Public Library for a powerful author talk with Tourmaline, celebrating her new book: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson. She will be joined in conversation by Cristela [...]
🗓 Saturday, May 10 | 🕑 2:00–4:00 PM 📍 Club Café Inspired by The History Project’s collection of historic LGBTQ+ advocacy pins, Buttons & Brews is a creative afternoon of community and self-expression. Learn how to design and make your own wearable buttons—and connect with others over shared stories and [...]
Saturday, May 10 | 10:00–11:30 AM Boston City Hall Plaza – Civic Pavilion History isn’t just something we look back on—it’s something we live and shape every day. Brewing Connections brings LGBTQ+ community members across generations together for coffee, donuts, and meaningful conversations. Whether you’re looking to learn from the [...]
Join Boston Public Library, The History Project, and SpeakOUT for Oral History Live, our ongoing event series dedicated to documenting LGBTQ+ history in the making. In this special edition, we partner with SpeakOUT Boston (the nation's oldest LGBTQ+ speakers bureau) to highlight trans voices, because trans stories need to be [...]
We’re thrilled to co-present three incredible films with Wicked Queer this April! Each film highlights vital and powerful stories from LGBTQ+ history—don’t miss your chance to experience them on the big screen. Tickets available at https://www.queer.film/wickedqueer. Black: Narratives in Boston’s Black Queer & Trans History 📅 Saturday, April 5, 2025 [...]