We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection launches on February 20!

To celebrate our 11 years of oral storytelling and LGBTQIA+ history gatherings, and our final year of operations, we are taking TQH on the road.

From February through June 2025, you will be able to visit our traveling exhibit in Red Wing, Duluth, Moorhead, Grand Rapids, and Minneapolis.

Red Wing Arts, 418 Levee St, Red Wing, MN 55066, event on Sunday Feb 23 - program from 2-3:30, exhibit on display Feb 20-March 7. - success! We had over 100 people show up for event day.

Red Raven Espresso Parlor, 106 7th St S, Moorhead, MN 56560, Event on Saturday, March 22nd at 2pm, exhibit on display March 22 - April 4. - success! We had over 30 people show up for event day.

The Depot  506 West Michigan Street Duluth, Minnesota 55802. Event on Saturday, April 12 at 2 pm, exhibit on display tentatively April 12-26.

Old Central School Grand Rapids, 10 NW 5th St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744, event May 10, exhibit on display May 10-26.

Queermunity  Minneapolis, 3036 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408, Event June 8, Exhibit on display June 7-23

We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection will uplift stories from our archives, newly enriched with historical context, and will unveil many new stories that uplift queer and trans voices that are often pushed out of the margins.

We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection invites you into Minnesota’s intricate LGBTQ+ landscape to witness how queer people around the state have fostered community and connection over time. Learn about queer communities across Minnesota history as you interact with stories of Two Spirit and Indigequeer, intersex, and incarcerated queer and trans folks, as well as narratives of queer & trans pleasure, 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 learn about Telling Queer History’s 11 years of community-based work.

Share a gift with us today to support this touring exhibit. Your support will also go toward preparing our archives to be shared with major institutions including the Tretter Collection and Minnesota Historical Society.

Images from behind the scenes setting up in Red Wing and Moorhead plus our storytellers in Moorhead, Jan and Tracey.

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.