The Spine

The Timeline

A verified chronology of South Coast LGBTQ+ history.

Every entry here is sourced and confidence-tagged, and many open into a full exhibit. This is a beginning, not a finished record. The gaps, especially before 1980 and across Fall River, are real, and we are working to fill them with you.

This timeline is incomplete, on purpose

The years before 1980 are nearly blank, and Fall River is badly underrepresented. Those silences are the work ahead. If you can help fill them, the museum is listening.

Help us recover the story