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 [...]
🎤 Oral History Live! Roundtable with Fag Rag 🏳️🌈 📅 Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 | ⏰ 7:00 PM ET | 💻 Virtual Panel via Zoom 🔥 Before OutWeek, before ACT UP, before mainstream gay press—there was Fag Rag. Fag Rag was the first of several national gay male cultural and [...]
🌈 Curator Talk: Expanding Queer Narratives in Historical Museums 🏛️🏳️🌈 📅 Thursday, March 27, 2025 | ⏰ 7:00 PM ET | 💻 Virtual Panel via Zoom What stories do historic house museums tell—and whose voices have been left out? 🏠✨ Join us for a riveting conversation with R. Tripp Evans [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
🎃 Spooky Book Club: A Queer Twist on Poe’s Classic Tale 🎃 Get ready to dive into the eerie, unsettling world of "What Moves the Dead" by T. Kingfisher, a nonbinary reimagining of Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. 🕸️📖 On Wednesday, October 30th, join [...]
🕸️ Unlock the Haunted Histories of Queer Gothic Literature! 🕸️ Just in time for LGBTQ+ History Month, join National Park Ranger Meaghan Michel for a virtual journey into the eerie, shadowy worlds of queerness in Gothic literature. 🌈📚 From the flickering candlelight of 18th-century haunted castles to the foggy moors [...]
Arlington LGBTQIA+ History Month Panel Please join us on Oct 9 for informative presentations and panel on LGBTQIA+ history in the Boston area, featuring Sarah Boyer, author of Coming Out, Becoming Ourselves: Lesbian Stories from the Boston Daughters of Bilitis, 1969-1999 and The History Project. Location: Arlington Senior Center, 27 [...]