About the We Live On: Stories of Radical connection

We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection invites you into how queer people around the state have fostered community and connection over time. Learn about queer communities across Minnesota history with stories of Two Spirit and Indigequeer, intersex, and incarcerated queer and trans folks, HIV/AIDS history, sex work, and more. Interact with historically-contextualized archival video, audio, story transcripts, letters, art, poems, an ancestral altar, and queer ephemera as you explore Telling Queer History’s 12 years of community-based work.

This exhibit was created in the winter of 2024/2025 by TQH staff. It toured around 5 Minnesota cities between February and June 2025: Red Wing, Moorhead, Duluth, Grand Rapids, and Minneapolis. A mini version was created for the Smallest Museum in St Paul in June 2025. Most of the content of this exhibit is now on website. At each location a live storytelling event was held, featuring queer people from each location sharing their story.

In addition to the exhibit we also created two 2SLGBTQIA+ history walking tours; one of Powderhorn Park neighborhood and one of downtown Saint Paul. These tours were handed off to the Minnesota Humanities Center to be run by then after TQH sunsets. See photos from the exhibit tour and walking tours below.

This exhibit was made possible in part by funding by the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008