Projects
Bob Uplinger's Arrest Historic Marker
On August 7, 2021, the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project made history of its own when it installed the first LGBTQ-themed historic marker in Western New York...more
Gay Liberation NOW! : Buffalo Mattachine and the Myth of Stonewall
Most LGBTQ activists in the U.S. knew 2019 as the year marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, which launched the gay rights movement. As it happens, 2019 was also the 50th anniversary of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier (MSNF), Buffalo’s first gay rights organization...more
Animal Collective
Part exhibit, part zine release party, and part pet adoption event, the History Project partnered with local animal rescue Pets Alive in March 2019 to bring the world Animal Collective, a celebration of the many roles pets play in local LGBTQ lives...more
She Walked Here
The downtown Buffalo of the mid-20th century was a surprisingly sapphic space. Portions of the neighborhood that are today occupied by supermarkets, condos, parking structures–even Sahlen’s Field and the 33 Expressway...more
Black in Time
In July of 1977, two Black gay men, Robert Hairston and John Morrison, filed a discrimination with the New York State Division of Human Rights after being denied entrance to Mean Alice’s, then Buffalo’s most popular night club...more
