Telling Queer History is a series of storytelling gatherings that connect LGBTQ+ people across generations and identities.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we are offering a mix of outdoor in-person events and virtual events.

Gatherings are donation based, all-ages, substance-free, ASL-interpreted, and provides free food when we can meet in person. There is a theme and/or featured storyteller(s) at each gathering followed by space to share your own stories around that theme, weaving our individual histories into a collective one.

Stay informed about upcoming events via our blog, Facebook, or our email newsletter.

Events

The dates of our 2022/23 Programs are:

October 8, 2022: LGBTQ+ Walking Tour with MN Humanities Center
October 9, 2022: Death, Grief, and Remembering
October 10, 2022: End of Life Paperwork - a legal workshop
December 11, 2022: Sex, Pleasure, and Embodiment
February 12, 2023: Polyamory, Circles of Care, and Connection
April 6, 2023: Birth, Family, and the Next Generation
June 3, 2023: Legacy - Telling Queer History’s 10th Anniversary and Fundraiser

All gatherings are donation based, all ages, substance free, ASL interpreted, and when online live captioned. 

Annual Reports

Thank you donors and volunteers that have made this possible.
Special thanks to our designer, Adam Cohen who put in so many hours making this beautiful document.

 Why We Use The Word “Queer”

With a nod of affirmation and appreciation for the generations who fought for equality before us, we now reclaim and affirm “queer” as an inclusive, powerful term because it creates space big enough to include all the bodies and souls that never quite fit before.
Telling Queer History acknowledges that “queer” is simultaneously powerful, painful, empowering, and perhaps incomplete, but because it embodies the political power of both “f*ck you” and “all are welcome,” we embrace it and all the tensions it represents. Queer says, “I exist and I matter!”