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

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

Description

an analysis of LGBTQ+ subcultures that existed during the twentieth century in Boston. Primary sources include The Midtown Journal, which the project's author described as the most valuable historical record highlighting Boston's LGBTQ+ culture.

Creator

Sam Hurwitz

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Requires

Text analysis tools such as Voyant would be useful in picking out central themes for this project. There are graphs included in the project as well as primary source documents and scans of newspapers. Also included are maps and photographs of historical buildings and related geographical locations to the research conducted.

Alternatives

I'm sure there are other journals such as this however this is a very specific set of data in this project

Get Started

The project includes a list of terms with definitions and a bibliography so any context needed is mostly provided

Accessibility

There is use of alt text for image, it seems pretty accessible

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