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Two people and dog in front of Cope's Hope Florist - the shop run by Charles' partner, Gordon Copeland
This photograph shows two people and a dog standing outside a shop, which appears to be Cope's Hope Florist (Charles' partner's florist shop in Cambridge MA).
Stephen Harrington, Abe Rybeck, and Scottie Madden of Theater Offensive, posing with puppets
Stephen Harrington, Abe Rybeck, and Scottie Madden of the Theater Offensive standing in a row with five puppets. Each man is speaking into a microphone.
Abe Rybeck kissing a life-size puppet on the cheek
Abe Rybeck kissing a life-size puppet on the cheek.
Abe Rybeck, fist raised, posing with a life-size puppet
Abe Rybeck, fist raised and smiling, with his arm around a life-size puppet.
Abe Rybeck performing with queer cabaret group Adult Children of Heterosexuals created by the Theater Offensive
On verso: Adult Children of Heterosexuals (Abe Rybeck)
Coll. 006: Boston Pride Collection
The Boston Pride Collection consists of papers (some originals and some photocopies), photographs, and ephemera from 1970 to 2008 related to the Boston Pride March and Rally, as well as materials from various celebrations and events during Pride…
The Royal Kavanagh's of House Pearl
Ken and Brennan Kavanagh from their Royal Desert Safari.
The Boys
The House Pearl Boys. From left to right: Brennan, Johnny, and Alejandro.
Cape cottage in Provincetown, Mass.: Postcard
View of the front facade of a typical cape cottage with floral landscaping in the Provincetown, Mass.
Postcard of Commercial Street in Provincetown, Mass.
A color postcard of a summer street scene on Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Five people standing in front of Weathering Heights bar in Provincetown, Mass., circa 1950s
Four men and one woman stand on the porch in front of Weathering Heights bar in Provincetown, Mass.
A line of men posing on the beach in Provincetown, Mass., circa 1952
Six men in bathing suits stand arm-in-arm posing in a line on the beach in Provincetown, Mass. Another man kneels between them with his head poking out from between the middle men's hips.
Phil Baione and other men on a beach in Provincetown, Mass., circa 1952
A beach scene in Provincetown, Mass., in which Phil Baione sits on the shoulders of another and is seen throwing his hands up into the air. In the background of the photograph is a packed beach of onlookers and beach-goers.
Coll. 063: Gender Crash Collection
The Gender Crash collection consists of one archival box (.5 linear feet). This box contains a series of folders centering on the monthly open mic Gender Crash, Butch Dyke Boy Productions, and the founder of both organizations, Gunner Scott. This…
Coll. 058: Fenway Community Health Collection
Fenway Community Health Center started in 1971 when a group of students and community activists started a weekly drop-in health clinic serving the diverse population of the Fenway neighborhood: gay men, the elderly, students, and low-income tenants.…
Coll. 057: Above and Beyond Collection
The collection consists of newspaper clippings and publications gathered during research for the Above + Beyond exhibit. Included are subject files relating to specific topics such as activism and minorities, which contain primarily newspaper…
Coll. 051: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition Collection
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) was formed in 2001. The organization focused initial efforts on adding a gender identity clause into the City of Boston’s non-discrimination ordinance in 2002. The group expanded to include a…
Coll. 048: Dorchester Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) Collection
The collection consists of one record carton with materials consisting of GALA Newsletters and flyers. The collection is ongoing as Dorchester GALA is still in existence.
Coll. 044: AIDS Action Committee Collection
The collection consists of publications, promotional material for events, and other documents relating to AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. The bulk of the collection consists of the publications, which include a pair of early newsletters from…
Coll. 034 The History Project's T-Shirt Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 032: Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 030: Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth Collection Finding Aid
The Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth (GCGLY) was created by executive order on February 10, 1992 by Governor William Weld, in an effort to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth community. The Commission was…
Coll. 028: Project 10 East Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 027: Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry Papers Finding Aid
Historically in Massachusetts, and in other states, attempts by same-sex couples to apply for and receive marriage licenses were met with refusals by public officials to grant a license to same-sex couples.
As a response to those attempts a…
As a response to those attempts a…
Coll. 026: Howard Berman Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 025: Beantown Bowling League Collection Finding Aid
The Beantown Bowling League began in 1986 and is still in existence today. The documents in the collection cover their early years as an organization from 1987-1992 and show the wide array of tournaments the group participated in, in addition to…
Coll. 024: Lowell High GSA Collection FInding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 023: Know Thy Neighbor Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 022: The History Project's Marriage Collection Finding Aid
The finding aid is a document containing detailed information about this specific collection within The History Project archives. You can use the finding aid to determine whether information within this collection that has not be digitized is…
Coll. 021: Robert P. Wheatly Collection Finding Aid
Rev. Robert P. Wheatly, b. 1919 d. October 31, 2002, was a Gay Unitarian Universalist Minister and social justice pioneer who lived and worked in Massachusetts from 1949 until his death in 2002. He moved to the Boston area to attend Harvard Divinity…
Coll. 020: Albert Wakefield and Marshall Belmaine Papers Finding Aid
The collection chronicles the lives of Albert Wakefield and Marshall Belmaine from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. There is military information about the service records of both men. Al Wakefield served in Vietnam and was decorated for service. Military…
Coll. 011: Boston Daughters of Bilitis Collection and Focus/Maiden Voyage Publication Finding Aid
The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the…
Coll. 010: Student Homophile League Collection Finding Aid
The Student Homophile League was a self-described “service group organizing social and political action for the college age community” and was active between 1969 and 1980. First organized by MIT student Stan Tillotson in 1969, the organization…
Coll. 009: Homophile Union of Boston (HUB) Papers Finding Aid
The Homophile Union of Boston grew out of the Boston chapter of the Mattachine Society and was founded in late 1969 or early 1970. The organization’s leadership was male, but there were also women members. The purpose of HUB was to provide a space…
Coll. 007: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth Collection Finding Aid
The variety of materials in this collection speak to the long tradition of activism around the rights and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in Massachusetts, and attest to changing societal attitudes both across the state…
Coll. 005: March on Washington / Gay and Lesbian Defense Committee Collection Finding Aid
The materials in this collection – compiled by Boston-based activist Sarah Holmes – document the work of several national and local (to Boston, Massachusetts) lesbian and gay rights groups from 1977 to 1993, with the bulk of the materials pertaining…
Coll. 004: AIDS Ephemera Collection Finding Aid
The AIDS Ephemera Collection consists of materials gathered over time by various members of The History Project, including board member Elizabeth Bouvier. Designed to the eyecatching advertisements for AIDS awareness events, these items were given…
Coll. 002: David Scondras Collection Finding Aid
David Scondras was born on January 5, 1946 in Lowell, Massachusetts to first generation Greek- American parents, George and Dorothy. After graduating with honors from Lowell High School, David attended Harvard University where he received his…
Coll. 008: Lavender Resistance and BLAGMAR Collection Finding Aid
Boston Lesbian and Gays Against the Right (BLAGMAR) and its parent organization, Lavender Resistance, were groups formed in the last half of the 1970s to negotiate between issues relating to the LGBT community and the concerns of leftist politics.…
Coll. 001: Mike Riegle Collection Finding Aid
Michael Riegle, journalist, gay liberationist and prisoner rights activist, was born in 1943 in Gary, Indiana. The son of a steel mill worker, he attended Knox College where he received his Bachelors Degree; he later received his Doctorate in the…
Coll. 037: The History Project's Bar Collection Finding Aid
Boston’s gay subculture developed in tandem with Prohibition, where speakeasies became natural gathering places for gay individuals who were already leading a clandestine life. The History Project’s Improper Bostonians notes, “Bars and other…
Coll. 017: Laura McMurry Papers Finding Aid
Laura McMurry was born in Troy, New York, and grew up in Oklahoma and Idaho, before receiving her undergraduate degree at Reed College in Oregon. She moved to Boston in the mid-sixties to join Harvard’s graduate program in biology, receiving her…