20th Century in the United States

About

The projects on this site are focused around people in places in the US over the course of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the Boston area. The site will continue to expand in future years.

Project Authors

Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies: A Digital Visualization and Analysis of the LGBTQ+ Subcultures of Mid-Twentieth Century Boston

By Sam Hurwtiz

My project is titled "Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies: A Digital Visualization and Analysis of the LGBTQ+ Subcultures of Mid-Twentieth Century Boston." The goal of the project is to examine, map, and understand the wide variety of queer experiences chronicled in The Mid-Town Journal, a newspaper that covered the South End of Boston from 1938 to 1966. I first became interested in this topic and newspaper while conducting research of Boston's pre-1968 queer history. I hope to pursue this research further in my dissertation."

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