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By highlighting dozens of Boston’s LGBTQ historic sites, these volunteers demonstrate how many stories and lessons of our past deserve to be preserved.

The Stonewall Uprising, which took place in June 1969 in New York City, was the catalyst that launched the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Commemoration celebrations of the Uprising evolved into modern Pride celebrations now held around the world. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, volunteer activists, curators, and writers created Stonewall 50–a hybrid digital and physical installation with an online map and signage at historic sites around Boston. The initiative is spearheaded by The History Project, Boston’s LGBTQ community archives which works to document, preserve, and share LGBTQ history.

The Stonewall 50 project engages with Boston’s historic landscape in three ways: 1) it claims or reclaims sites of importance to the LGBTQ community in Boston where that connection has been hidden or ignored; 2) it asserts that LGBTQ people were, and are, part of Boston’s historical narrative; 3) it encourages Bostonians to see beyond what exists physically now and understand the layers of community history that underpin Boston’s neighborhoods.

Filmmaker: Padriac Farma
Designer: Laurea McLeland
Producer: Matthew Dickey

A Boston Preservation Alliance Film

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