Publications

The History Project has produced two important publications documenting Boston’s LGBTQ+ history.

Improper Bostonians is a 200-page book based on The History Project's groundbreaking exhibition Public Faces/Private Lives and which spans more than three hundred years of Boston's history—from the Puritans to the 1960s. Routes of Pride is a map showing the evolution of Boston’s Pride celebration over three decades.

Image: Leverett Saltonstall (right) sitting next to his Harvard classmate Charles William Dabney Jr. and an unidentified friend, c. 1850

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Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland

The History Project has produced two important publications documenting Boston’s LGBTQ history.

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Routes of Pride

Published in June of 2001, Routes of Pride traces the evolution of the Boston Pride celebration – from a few dozen lesbians and gay men marching as part of a Vietnam War protest, to a massive celebration that often draws more than 100,000 participants.