Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project

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Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project The Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project is a volunteer-run organization that preserves and shares the histories of all local LGBTQ community members.

Don't forget: it's LGBTQ+ History Month and our 10th birthday, a very good time to support our work by visiting any (or ...
10/14/2026

Don't forget: it's LGBTQ+ History Month and our 10th birthday, a very good time to support our work by visiting any (or all) of these great local businesses!

Tipico Coffee Roasters: 1$ from every flavored syrup shot (such as flavored lattes) support the History Project.

Extra Extra Pizza: 1$ from every glass of wince supports the History Project

Cafe Bewilderment: 15% of canned drink proceeds will support our work.

So may great, q***r-themed films at Buffalo International Film Festival this year! Tonight - Lunar Sway with director Ni...
10/11/2026

So may great, q***r-themed films at Buffalo International Film Festival this year! Tonight - Lunar Sway with director Nick Butler in attendance!

For tickets, see the link below.

We look forward to seeing you today. The tour is 2 miles and about 2 hours long. It starts from 1 Lafayette Sq and ends ...
10/04/2026

We look forward to seeing you today. The tour is 2 miles and about 2 hours long. It starts from 1 Lafayette Sq and ends in Allentown. Please plan your transportation accordingly.

This THURSDAY! Liz Barnes on WNY's movement of solidarity which successfully thwarted Operation Rescue's orchestrated a...
10/03/2026

This THURSDAY! Liz Barnes on WNY's movement of solidarity which successfully thwarted Operation Rescue's orchestrated attacks on Buffalo's abortion clinics.

Also, check out our lineup for new Q***r History Second Thursdays at Eugene V. Debs Hall (comments)

Sip Tipico Coffee Roasters's flavored latte for local q***r history - today and for the rest of the month! 🎀 ☕️ 🎀
10/02/2026

Sip Tipico Coffee Roasters's flavored latte for local q***r history - today and for the rest of the month! 🎀 ☕️ 🎀

It is our 10th Birthday and LGBTQ History Month!Even though we honor our history every month, now is the time to FLAUNT ...
10/01/2026

It is our 10th Birthday and LGBTQ History Month!

Even though we honor our history every month, now is the time to FLAUNT IT! The delightful folks at Tipico Coffee Roasters Extra Extra Pizza and .bewilderment are partnering with us on this agenda by running a fundraiser during the whole month of October that benefits the History Project !

If you want to celebrate with us but also wish your History Project a HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 (yes, yes, we were founded exactly ten years ago!) please go to these fine establishments and support us and them! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

The Avenue Buffalo’s first gay rights organization, the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier was born in a dilapid...
10/01/2026

The Avenue
Buffalo’s first gay rights organization, the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier was born in a dilapidated coffee and juice bar that, until 1972, stood at the site of the present Frank A. Sedita court building on Niagara Square (and Delaware Avenue).

Join us on October 4 at 3 pm in front of the Central Public Library, Buffalo Downtown, for a full guided tour of gay liberation sites!

Suggested donation $10 - Sliding Scale

Photo by Goldman, a moment from the tour launch in July 2019 (in front tof Frank Sedita Court)

Check out our lineup!
09/30/2026

Check out our lineup!

Gay liberation activists from Buffalo and gay rights organizations across NY State assemble to march in Albany on March ...
09/25/2026

Gay liberation activists from Buffalo and gay rights organizations across NY State assemble to march in Albany on March 14th, 1971. (Photo: Diana Davis, New York Public Library Digital Collection)

Though small, Buffalo is responsible for giving the world its first gay liberation anthem, building the third largest gay community center in the US, and including transgender activists at a moment when few gay organizations did.

Join us on 10/4 at 3 PM starting in front of CEntral Public Librray (1 Lafayette Sqaure) for our last in the season walking tour that tells the story of the birth and the first decade of Gay Liberation Movement in Western NY.

Behold this remarkable (and unsigned) cover page art for Fifth Freedom, Western NY’s first gay newspaper. The Art Nouvea...
08/21/2026

Behold this remarkable (and unsigned) cover page art for Fifth Freedom, Western NY’s first gay newspaper. The Art Nouveau imagery and style which had a strong influence on the psychedelic art and graphic design of the 1960s seems like quite an unusual artistic choice in the year 1978. Even more interesting for this time of gay liberation movement is the gender and sexual expansiveness that dominates the picture.

MSNF, which incorporated in the early days of 1970 and which was Buffalo’s first gay rights organization, published Fifth Freedom all the way into the mid-1980s.

Credit: Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of WNY (Special Collections of Buffalo State Library)

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Buffalo, NY
14205

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