When Gay Community News ceased publication in the 1990s, it was the oldest, continuously published national gay newspaper. This panel will explore the impact GCN had and continues to have on LGBTQ+ writing, news coverage, and activism. Panelists include Gilda Bruckman, Gerard Cabrera, and Haden Smiley, moderated by Michael Bronski [...]
Recording available on YouTube. Throughout its run, Gay Community News' staff, volunteers, and readership all debated how to answer the question, "What is gay news?" This panel will explore the intersections and divergences of opinions about what issues GCN covered, from feminist politics to international affairs. Panelists include Craig Bailey [...]
For LGBTQ+ history month, join National Park Ranger Meaghan Michel for a virtual talk on queerness & gothic literature! From its origins in the late 18th century, Gothic Literature has been shaped by the queer authors and queer themes that brought this genre to life. The gothic touched on the [...]
Recording available on YouTube. In 1973, a small group of gay men and lesbians founded "Gay Community News," a local Boston newsletter to report on LGBTQ+ events. That community-driven newsletter grew into a major newspaper with an international readership. Join us to explore the arc of GCN's history and its [...]
Join The History Project's 2023 banned book club for an informal group discussion of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Save the date and start reading! Please note this is a rescheduled date (due to technical difficulties on the original date). If you registered for the original date, please re-register for [...]
Join The History Project and SpeakOUT Boston for a sampling of "SpeakOUT TV," a weekly series highlighting LGBTQ+ news and culture, that aired on public access television from 1994 to 2003. Our discussion will explore that while the medium has changed, the impact and importance of LGBTQ+ storytelling has not [...]
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 [...]
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," [...]