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 [...]
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 [...]
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 The History Project for an LGBTQ+ be-in with self-guided tours and historical reenactments. BYOP (Bring your own picnic!)
Do you know your drag herstory? Join Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, authors of Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life in conversation with Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. RSVP on Eventbrite, a link to [...]
On Sunday, September 29, 2019, following the 3:00 p.p. performance of CHOIR BOY, SpeakEasy Stage Company and The History Project present a special forum entitled “Black, Queer, and Spiritual.” Simmons Professor Gary Bailey will moderate this special conversation featuring Reverend Irene Monroe, Reverend Jay Williams, Corey Yarbrough. The conversation will [...]
SpeakOUT and The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston invite you to join us on November 27th in honor of Veteran’s Day to share the stories of LGBTQ veterans with a moderated question and answer session. The History Project will also share a short history of LGBTQ people and the military.
Rare among historic house museums, Beauport tells the story of a gay man in the early twentieth century: celebrated interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. This special tour sheds light on Sleeper's family and friends and includes readings from books and letters written by Sleeper and his social circle. After the [...]