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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. 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. 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. 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. 031: Dignity Boston Collection
Dignity Boston was founded in 1972 as a local chapter of Dignity/USA, which started in Los Angeles in 1969, first as a counseling group, then a support group for LGBTQ Catholics. Dignity/USA has been a national independent nonprofit organization…
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. 033: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders Collection Finding Aid
Attorney John Ward founded the non-profit legal rights organization, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) in 1978. It grew out of the Boston/Boise Committee, a group organized in December 1977 to defend the rights of gay men arrested in…
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. 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. 043: InNewsWeekly (Publication) Collection
In Newsweekly, known as IN Newsweekly or in newsweekly during some of its publication, was a LGBT newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. It began in 1991 as IN Boston and became IN Newsweekly in 1993 when it merged with other publications, and…
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. 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. 050: Boston Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY)
The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, (BAGLY) is a youth led, adult supported social support organization, committed to social justice, and creating, programs, policies and services in support of the LGBTQ youth…
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. 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. 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. 060: George Chapin Scott and Edward F. Bernier Collection (FINDING AID)
George Chapin Scott was born August 1916 in Heath, Massachusetts, the only child to Myria F. Chapin and John H. Scott. He first contacted The History Project in 2000 to donate a large collection of local lesbian and gay newspapers, i.e. The Guide,…
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. 064: International Foundation for Gender Education Collection
The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), founded in 1987 in Massachusetts, is a leading advocate and educational organization for promoting the self- definition and free expression of individual gender identity. IFGE is not a support…
Coll. 072 - Older Lesbian Energy (OLE) Collection
OLE (an acronym for Older Lesbian Energy) is a social organization for lesbian women over age 40. Founded in 1980 by Toni Schiff and Anita Fast, OLE grew out of Schiff's 1979 master's thesis for Goddard-Cambridge School of Social Change, "The…
Coll. 073: Joyce Crowder Collection
Joyce Crowder (September 4, 1935 – April 4, 2010) was a nurse and ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. She worked to protect the rights of gay and lesbian nurses through her membership in the Gay Nurses’ Alliance and as secretary for the…
Coll. 074: Charles Shively Collection Finding Aid
Charles Shively was born in 1937. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard in 1959, and his PhD in 1969. He began teaching at Boston State College in 1965. In 1982 when BSC closed their doors, UMass Boston agreed to take seven of their thirty…
Coll. 086: Fran's Place Collection Finding Aid
One of the oldest bars in Massachusetts, Fran's place had a long and vibrant life in the city of Lynn. John Collin's opened the tavern in sometime in the 1920's (the exact date is not known). In 1940 the business was passed on to John's parents, Fran…
Coll. 094: Gaylaxian Collection
In February, 1986, Franklin Hummel and John Dumas formed a social group centered originally in Massachusetts but later including New Hampshire, for gay people and their friends who were interested in science fiction and fantasy. The group met…
Coll. 123: Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
The Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project (LGBTQ-DVP) was founded in 1994, by a victim of domestic violence when he was repeatedly denied services by mainstream domestic violence shelters in his attempt to leave his abusive partner. The organization…
Coll. 127: Gays for Patsy Collection
Gays for Patsy (GFP) is a Boston-based, nonprofit, all-volunteer organization made up of Country/Western dance enthusiasts. They mission is to share the joy of country-western dancing while raising funds for groups serving those in need.
Founded in…
Founded in…
Coll. 137: Gay Nurses Alliance Finding Aid
The Gay Nurses’ Alliance (GNA) of Boston was founded in 1978 and its history can be traced to the Pennsylvania Nurses’ Association (PNA) which was founded in 1973 in Philadelphia by David Waldron and Carolyn Innes. Waldron and Innes wanted to create…
Coll. 146: Black Gay and Lesbian Collection Finding Aid
The collection was given to The History Project by an anonymous donor in April 2017, at an event at Fenway Health. The materials, which were left in two cloth bags, and three archival magazine boxes were not arranged in any discernible order. After…
Coll.121: Greater Boston Business Council Collection
The Greater Boston Business Council is a non-profit organization which began in 1990 to foster and promote the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) business and professional community in the greater Boston area, thereby contributing to the…
Coll.75: LGBTQ Religious Groups Collection
The LGBTQ Religious Archives Collection has been created over the years by The History Project and consist of various letters, flyers, newletters and program books from various queer religious groups. The materials have been collected by board…
Community leaders pose with model of new Fenway Community Health Center
Collings to head FCHC's Capital Campaign Efforts. Harry Collings (center), new Associate Director of the Fenway Community Health Center, discusses plans for the Center's new facility with (from left to right) Stewart Landers, chairperson for the…
Community members in Boston's annual Pride march holding a sign that reads "Women Hold Up Half the Sky"
Image from the 1979 Pride showing marchers coming down Charles Street.
Condom on a naked leg photo for book Hot Living
Promotional photograph for the book Hot Living.
Conference registration table at the 1st National Lesbian and Gay Education Conference
Conference registration table at the 1st National Lesbian and Gay Education Conference.
Conference registration table at the 1st National Lesbian and Gay Education Conference with poster legible
Conference registration table at the 1st National Lesbian and Gay Education Conference.
Congressman Gerry Studds Reception Interview
Congressman Gerry Studds mid-interview with Channel Seven News at an unspecified reception.
Contact Sheet of Boston Pride 1974
Six photographs from Boston Pride 1974 including parade floats, cars, drag performer Sylvia Sidney and other shots.
Copy of a letter from Gordon Copeland to the Secretary of the Air Force, Discharge Review Board, dated July 3, 1979.
This document is a type-written draft of a letter from Gordon Copeland, addressed to the Secretary of the Air Force, Discharge Review Board. Gordon writes, "I hope that an upgrade of my undesirable discharge will be possible without a personal…
Creating the book design for Coming Out in the Seventies by Denis Altman
Close up of Sasha Alyson's creating a book design for Coming Out in the Seventies.
Crowd at 2020 Trans Resistance March
A photograph of the crowd at the 2020 Trans Resistance March, Franklin Park, Boston, by Jo Triglio, 13 June 2020.
Crowd at Franklin Park, Trans Resistance March
Photo taken during the June 13, 2020 Trans Resistance March, Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts by Jo Trigilio.
Daughters of Bilitis information table
Three women from the Daughters of Bilitis sit a table with copies of their journal Focus, originally titled Maiden Voyage, in front of them.
David Brill
Gay Community News writer David Brill holding a briefcase and photograph of two men.
David LaFontaine and Dede Ketover
Gay and Lesbian Campaign Committee member David LaFontaine and chair Dede Ketover at a planning meeting for "We Must Elect Ourselves" Valentines Day Fundraiser.
David Scondras and Edmund White at Glad Day Bookshop
Author Edmund White and David Scondras at Scondra's City Council campaign event at Glad Day Bookshop.
David Scondras and Larry Kessler and another man of the AIDS Action Committee
David Scondras, Larry Kessler and another unidentified men speak at desk with microphones.
David Summers attempts to enter City Hall to testify at Council hearings and is blocked by police
A large group of police officers stands on the steps of City Hall in Boston, while David Summers' passage is deflected by a police officer in the middle of the photograph.
David Thorstad and Tom Reeves
David Thorstad and Tom Reeves on a New York City rooftop