Private Lives, Public Faces: Sexuality and Beauport in the Early Twentieth Century
Date and Time
Friday Aug 22, 2014
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Location
75 Eastern Point Blvd., Gloucester , MA 01930
Directions detail: Take Route I-95/128 north to the end. At second set of lights after the second rotary, take East Main Street 1.5 miles, approximately eight minutes, to the stone pillars at the entrance to Eastern Point Boulevard. Proceed through the pillars and follow Eastern Point Boulevard .5 mile to Beauport.
Parking: The Beauport parking lot is across the street from the house.
Contact Information
(978) 283 - 0800
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Description
Historian Philip A. Hayden leads a thought-provoking and sometimes frank informal discussion about public and private attitudes toward human sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. The program opens with a general overview of the norms and taboos of the day, then looks specifically at how Beauport owner Henry Davis Sleeper and his closest friends navigated the complex and often perilous world of Boston's gay subculture. This examination of what it meant to be an outsider in Sleeper's time touches on themes of particular relevance today. $15 Historic New England members, $25 nonmembers
