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 include free food when we can meet in person. Each themed gathering has up to four featured storytellers. We build in space for you to share your own stories around the theme, and in that way, weave our individual histories into a collective history.

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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!”