Press

Selected Press

 
 

AGHI, “Plaster (director, Tabb Center) wins Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024,” April 19, 2024

 

Emily Gaines Buchler, “How Public Humanities Breaks Down Barriers,” JHU Hub, Dec 19, 2023

 

Laura Moreno, “‘Kids on the Street:’ Joseph Plaster’s Queer Tenderloin History,” Bay Area Reporter, Feb 28, 2023

 

Andrew Albanese, “Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners,” Apr 18, 2024

 

“Q&A with Joseph Plaster on The Peabody Ballroom Experience,” History@Work blog, National Council on Public History, Oct 2023

 

Marke B., “On Polk Street and in the Tenderloin, a Family of Hustlers and Priests,” 48 Hills, Mar 15, 2023

 

The Publishing Triangle, “2024 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced,” March 2024

 

LGBTQ+ Oral Histories Event, BMore Art Magazine, Thursday, September 28

 

J.P. Der Boghossian, “7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Joseph Plaster and Kids on the Street,” This Queer Book Saved My Life, Apr 25, 2023

 

Johns Hopkins University Hub staff, “Joseph Plaster recognized by National Council on Public History,” The Hub, Feb 22, 2023

 

Umi Hsu and Shei Yu, “Prophets And Misfits” – On Vanguard Magazine, Periodically Queer Season 2 Ep. 1, June 2023

 

John-John Williams IV, “Posing at the Library: Baltimore’s Ballroom Scene Werks the Peabody Again,” Baltimore Banner, Apr 14, 2023

 

Sonja Anderson, “The Controversial Gay Priest Who Brought Vigilante Justice to San Francisco’s Streets,” Smithsonian magazine, June 30, 2023

 

Cara Ober, “The Library is Open: Baltimore Ballroom at Peabody,” BMore Art Magazine, Apr 21, 2023

 

Zeb Larson, “ACT UP’s Radical Activism Saved Lives During the AIDS Epidemic,” Teen Vogue, JUNE 28, 2023

 

Neal Broverman, “Saving the Stories of San Francisco’s ACT UP Heroes,” The Advocate, Aug 18, 2017

 

Rose Wagner, “Baltimore Was One of the First Cities to Celebrate Drag Culture,” Baltimore Sun, Jun 17, 2021

Ryan Kost, “A ‘Golden’ Photographic Treasury of 1970s Gay Scene,” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2016

 

“See Roz Joseph’s Lost Photos of the Early San Francisco Drag Scene,” New York Magazine’s The Cut, Oct. 27, 2015

Rowan Liu, “Tabb Center Hosts Speakers to Present on Intricacies of Trans Oral History,” The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Dec 10, 2022

 

Bret McCabe, “Ballroom Glitz,” Johns Hopkins Hub, Oct 15, 2019