Live Oral History with Demita Frazier: A Radical Legacy in Conversation Join Demita Frazier, a founding member of the groundbreaking Combahee River Collective and recipient of the 2024 HistoryMaker Award, for an exclusive live oral history collection. In this intimate conversation, facilitated by C. Shawn McGuffey of The History Project’s [...]
Celebrate the Season with The History Project! An Evening of LGBTQ+ History, Holiday Cheer, and Community 2024 has been an incredible year for The History Project, and we want to toast it with you! Join us at Club Café for an unforgettable holiday party where we’ll reflect on our milestones [...]
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 [...]
Help Us Build a Community-Generated Archive of 20 Years of Marriage Equality in Massachusetts The History Project is embarking on an exciting tour across the Boston Public Libraries to document and preserve personal stories from the last 20 years of marriage equality in Massachusetts. While the legal battles are well [...]
Wicked Queer WQ: Docs celebrates the rich and vibrant true stories of the LGBTQ+ community and the ever-evolving art of the documentary. The History Project will be at the following films: ANY OTHER WAY THE JACKIE SHANE STORY Saturday Nov 16 @ 2:30 pm A House Is Not A Disco [...]
Join local author and educator Neema Avashia to discuss her memoir Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer Asian American teacher and [...]
🎃 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 [...]
Join us for a closing celebration of Historic New England’s exhibition, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, in collaboration with The History Project. Enjoy cozy cider and charcuterie in the fall splendor on the terrace and then explore the show with an introduction by its curator, Tripp [...]
🕸️ 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 [...]
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of marriage equality in Massachusetts with an engaging and heartfelt discussion about its impact on the LGBTQ+ community. This event, co-hosted by the the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain Historical Society and The History Project, will look back on [...]