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Tomorrow evening at 7PM, join Ranger Meaghan and our friends at The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston for a dive into the q***r history and themes of the novel ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker.
Throughout history, the vampire has represented a number of fears that plague society. The vampire of the 19th century, who can only come out under the cover of darkness and who inspires both repulsion and attraction in equal measure, easily stands as a metaphor for society’s own anxieties with homosexuality. Bram Stoker's Dracula, possibly the world's most famous fictional vampire, was born in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde's infamous trial for "gross indecency", and yet the novel is not often discussed in that context. This talk will explore how “the love that dare not speak its name” and Stoker’s own anxieties permeate this beloved horror classic.
RSVP on eventbrite. Registration is free:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/out-of-the-archives-the-q***r-history-of-dracula-tickets-186959891067
There was rumor that he died after being in the regency Baths from cyanide poising
David P. Brill (1955–1979) was a Boston-based gay rights activist and investigative journalist.
Brill studied political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was one of the nation's first investigative journalists for the gay press, and for more than six years served as chief investigative reporter and political commentator for the weekly Gay Community News, chronicling issues relevant to the lives of gay people. He was also a correspondent for Boston Magazine and the California-based gay interest magazine The Advocate. He sought to make city and state government, the media, and especially the police, more responsive to the needs of gay men and le***ans; through his special concern with the subject of violence against g**s, he initially brought this issue to the eye of law enforcement officials and the public. He was also a member of the Homophile Union of Boston and Gay Legislation and lobbied for a better understanding of gay people and laws to protect their civil rights.
In his roles as political writer and gay rights advocate, Brill came to know well Boston Police Lt. William J. Bratton, who credited Brill for "liberalizing police attitudes towards g**s by opening up a relationship with the police. Prior to writing a story, he'd always come to us for our side. There was a trust established between David and the command staff here at headquarters." Bratton (who went on to be Superintendent in Chief of the Boston Police Department, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department and Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department) mentioned Brill in his 1998 book, The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic.
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The Ashe Ashe Cultural Assembly Grant opens today! Ujima members will have the opportunity to vote on grants to artistic and cultural projects developed by local BIPoC artists and organizers. These projects can be anything from block parties to public art. Many thanks to our granting partners and cohosts who helped make this possible. ❤️
BECMA, MASS MoCA, Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture Boston, Art.coop, Artisan's Asylum, Boston Art Review, Collective Futures Fund, The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston, Fairmount Innovation Lab, Black Cotton Club, NEFA, Design Studio for Social Intervention, and Trans Resistance
Learn more below and apply for funding here:
https://bit.ly/ashegrant
✅ Eligibility
✔︎ Open to individual BIPOC artists, cultural workers, and collectives
✔︎ Applicants and payees must be 18+ years old
✔︎ Must live and work in Boston, MA, or a former Boston resident, living in MA, who has been displaced from the city.
💰 Funding Range
Artists may request up to $5,000 USD to support their project; we encourage artists to use at least 20% for their own artist fees and hope they pay collaborators a fair amount as well.
⏰ Timeline
▶︎The application period closes on November 5, 2021 at 11:59PM
▶︎ Following application submissions, there will be a virtual exhibition where the public may explore the works of artists, and Ujima members will vote on the winning projects!
▶︎ Grantees will be announced in early December 2021.
🎨Eligible Projects
▶︎ All projects and experiences supported by this grant must be free and open to the public.
For example: Block Parties, live events, publishing projects, sound/music-based projects, live theatre and performances, public art, public educational projects, public film screenings.
💰Money in Hand Timeline
Artists that are collectively selected will receive full check payments from Boston Ujima Project on or before December 13, 2021.
📍 If you have any questions please reach out to
[email protected]!
There are still spots available for this Saturday's Pride Tour of Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House with The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston!
Get your tickets for this look into the story of a gay man in the early twentieth century: celebrated interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. Tour the house to learn about Sleeper’s family and friends and hear readings from books and letters written by Sleeper and his social circle.
🎟️ bit.ly/3nezs09
Join The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston as they work on building Q***r Black History through historical documentation. Worcester Black History Project
In partnership with The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston , which documents Boston's Black LGBTQ history, we're lifting up powerful books that feature LGBTQ stories 📚
There might be no better example than This Bridge Called My Back, which draws from the poems, speeches, and short stories of women of color to offer an uncompromised view of feminism and racial identity.
Click to shop This Bridge Called My Back and other impactful titles: shop.mtwyouth.org
Andrew Elder, sound familiar?
"I also learned that some of the worst enemies of precious artifacts aren’t humans but mice, insects, and moisture. A copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle had come in to have sections of its cover mended. Made of rag paper in the late 1400s, the book blossomed with vibrantly colored woodcut illustrations. Metals in the paints were slowly breaking down the paper. A conservator invited me to smell the text to see if I could detect the rat-urine aroma he’d noted. To me, it just smelled musty. The bottom corners of the pages had been darkened by centuries of oily fingers flipping pages. The conservator imagined people sitting down to lunch while thumbing through it."
As Pride Month comes to a close, we are excited to have guest blogger Neal Kane shares some info on The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston.
Next week on July 9, The History Project team will join us for a special Coffee Hour to share some of the history of the community. Read on to learn more about this fascinating project and their work to preserve this important history:
https://bit.ly/3qLMXUT
We had a great evening last Friday with LexPride Inc and The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston! You can view the recording (and other programs from the last year) on our YouTube page. ! 🌈
https://youtu.be/brRBgWBvxVI
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