Child reading in New Words Bookstore, Postcard by Ellen Shub
Postcard featuring young child reading "Wonder Woman" book, taken in New Words Bookstore in 1976 by Ellen Shub, Cambridge, MA.
Ellen Shub
1976
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GAY DANCE
Poster for Student Homophile League Gay Dance, Arlington Street Church. 1972
1972
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HUB Back to School Dance at the Arlington Street Church
Poster for the Homophile Union of Boston (HUB) Back to School Dance at the Arlington Street Church. Friday September 29, 1972. "Dance to the Music of The Sundance Band, Addmission [sic] $1.50 per person"
1972
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Interview with Bob Volante [Excerpt]: On Coming Out, 2015
Volante, Robert
In 2015, Carlos Aguilar interviewed Robert Volante in Volante's home in Boston, Massachusetts. An excerpt from the interview with Volante, about coming out to his family, is presented below. To view the full interview, contact info@historyproject.org.
This interview and others were made possible by a grant from the Boston Foundation's Equality Fund.
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
2015
Aguilar, Carlos
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Interview with David Peterson, 2010
Peterson, David
On August 25, 2010, The History Project interviewed David Peterson about his work with Gay Community News, which he helped to found in 1973, and in other LGBTQ organizations and issues in Boston, Cambridge, and Massachusetts. The full interview with David Peterson is presented below, in two parts.
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
2010-08-25
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Interview with John Mitzel, 2012
Mitzel, John
On February, 12, 2012, Mark Krone interviewed John Mitzel at Mitzel's bookstore, Calamus Books, in Boston, Massachusetts. The full interview with John Mitzel is presented below.
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
2012-02-12
Krone, Mark
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Lavender Vision, Volume 1, Issue 1
Lesbian Feminism
Cover of the inaugural issue of Lavender Vision for the Lesbian Community, published in 1970, as part of Cambridge-based Media Collective. Ultimately two issues were published between 1970 and 1971. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/lavendervision-27953608/">Both are digitized and available freely via JSTOR</a>.
Media Collective
10 January 1970
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student homophile league, GAY DANCE, friday june 2 at the oddfellows hall, CENTRAL SQ. CAMBRIDGE
Poster created for a Student Homophile League Dance at the Oddfellows Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Circa 1970.
c. 1970
Other dances were sponsored by organizations like the Homophile Union of Boston and the Boston chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, including this poster from a dance sponsored by HUB in 1972 at Arlington Street Church in Boston and the Oddfellows Hall on Mass Ave in Cambridge.
sunday 26 april, THE GAY LIBERATION DANCE & catfishblack!
A poster for a Student Homophile League Gay Liberation Dance at Harvard University. sunday 26 april, THE GAY LIBERATION DANCE & catfishblack!
"A dance for humanity: gay, start- we are all One. Come together. Go to Harvard Free U. in Lawrence Hall, 9 pm. Donations accepted!"
c. 1970