History

The Vermont Folklife Center reopened earlier this month with an exhibition co-presented by Pride Center of Vermont. "Pride 1983" explores the origins and lasting legacy of Burlington, Vermont’s first LGBTQ2+ Pride celebration...

A historic-site marker was raised on the Vermont State House lawn to commemorate the first civil union legislation in the country, which the state passed in 2000. Associated Press reporter Lisa Rathke covered the ceremony: The...

Connecticut voters have elected Erick Russell to be their state's new treasurer in Tuesday night's 2022 Midterm Elections, making Russell Connecticut's first elected statewide Black, gay official. "Thank...

For their annual HistoryMakers Awards, The History Project has risen to the challenges of 2020 and not only taken their celebration virtual but extended it to a month-long series throughout October with...

This Valentine's Day, I pay homage to W.E.B. Du Bois's 1924 novel "Dark Princess" because it highlights the least talked about subject then and now: Black love. Two activities...

Fifty years ago this month, on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, Lem Billings had just returned from lunch when he heard the news. He was an advertising executive at Lennen and Newell in New York and as he approached his office building at 380 Madison Avenue, Billings saw immediately that something was wrong. Waves of people rolled out of the building onto the street, some looked confused, others wept. According to David Pitts, author of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship, a face in the crowd approached Billings and said, “I’m so sorry about the president.”

The History Project, Boston’s LGBTQ community archives, will hold its annual HistoryMaker Awards event, featuring an in-person reception with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, November 4,...

‘‘He was passionate and very progressive,’’ said Vermont state Representative Mary Sullivan of her long-time friend Ed Flanagan, the first openly gay, statewide-elected lawmaker in the US. ‘‘He was guided by a moral compass.’’ Flanagan,...

This Sunday, November 20, 2022, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we honor the memory of transgender people whose lives were taken by acts of anti-transgender violence. In commemoration...

Boston's first openly gay city councilor and trailblazing LGBTQ activist David Scondras passed away on October 21 after a long fight against polycystic kidney disease. His husband, Robert Krebs, was there at...