Join us at Itasca Pride for a live storyteller event on Saturday, May 10th @ 2-3:30 pm and visit the exhibit at Old Central School from Saturday, May 10th - Monday, May 26th.
Join us in the main hall of The Depot for a live storyteller event on Saturday, April 12th @ 2-3:30 pm and visit the exhibit in the balcony from Saturday, April 12th - Saturday, April 26th.
Image provide by Red Raven of their space
Join us for the kick off event of our LGBTQ+ history exhibit, We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection, on Sunday February 23, 2025 at Red Wing Arts from 2-3:30pm.
Join TQH for a community conversation about our upcoming closure and final program year. This gathering is free, will be both in-person and livestreamed, and requires tickets/registration.
Join MN Historical Society and Telling Queer History on June 21st, 2024 for a live storytelling gathering of LGBTQ+ local history. Free pride event.
TQH is proud to sponsor the Closing Performance of MERGE with Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES & Taja Will. Come experience the dance-theater-magic along with a Post-Show Experience/Conversation on March 24th at 2pm. Tickets required to attend.
Join our annual February art+love-themed gathering, a trauma-informed experience where we’ll hear from an artist who has been through difficult relationship times- they will lead us in being creative and making art from our own stories. We’ll also hear from the OutFront Minnesota anti-violence team, who will share reflective questions and information about how power dynamics show up within all kinds of relationships.
DATE AND TIME
Sat, January 27, 2024
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
LOCATION
Dendros Group
2642 University Ave. West
#140
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
Tickets here: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/jan-27
QUEER HISTORY LOVERS, UNITE!
Bring your love of LGBTQIA+ history and your friends, and let's play TRIVIA!
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/dec-06
Here's the thing- whether you're a bonafide queer history nerd or you don't know any LGBTQIA+ history, you are WELCOME to attend this all-levels event.
We're taking a fun, educational and engaging approach to sharing history with you.
We'll have three rounds, plus a bonus round, for you to play:
1. General, nation-wide history (like queer history 101)
2. Upper Midwest history (MN, ND, SD, WI, MI, IA)
3. Minnesota-specific history
4. Bonus round: Telling Queer History history!
You're competing for the joy of broadening your queer knowledge and finding your place in our shared queer histories.
Create a Team of 4 people & register your team.
Don't have a team? NO PROBLEM, register as an individual and we'll assign you to a new team. :)
We'll be providing light food and N/A beverages, and there will be fun prizes available for competing teams!
Here are the FACTS:
*WHEN: Wednesday, December 6, 6:30-8:30 PM
*IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
*WHERE: United Theological Seminary (767 Eustis Street, St. Paul, 55114)
(virtual attendees will receive the link on trivia day)
*ASL Interpreted
*Childcare Available
*Sliding-scale Tickets Available
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/dec-06
Upcoming storytelling and community-building gatherings:
January 27, 2024: Queer Connections- Collaboration with the LGBTQ+, BIPOC & Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Communities (Curated by MN Deaf Queers)
February 18, 2024: Art of Healthier Relationships
April 2024 (date TBD): Queer Roles in the Twin Cities Uprising
June 1, 2024: LGBTQ+ History Icons Drag Show & Fundraiser
Partake in opportunities for belonging and connection that are still aligned with our practices of providing intergenerational, all-ages, substance-free spaces that center accessibility, with these additional events:
March 24, 2024: MERGES in March at the Cowles Center: Mathew Janczeski’s Arena Dance & Taja Will + TQH post-show conversation and community movement (TQH sponsorship)
How do we create spaces to joyfully connect and explore each other while avoiding the harms that unchecked substance use can cause?
What’s our vision for a future that prioritizes connection and the thriving of our communities, AND emphasizes healing benefits and harm reduction for people who choose to use substances?
This conversation is nuanced, contradictory and challenging- and we’re here for it!
Get your tickets today
https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/october-14
There’s a history here- drugs and alcohol have both helped us to connect and have been a source of harm.
FACTS:
The use of drugs and alcohol is not inherently bad.
Queer people have found each other in bar spaces for a long time.
Drugs and alcohol use have directly and indirectly harmed so many LGBTQIA+ folks.
The alcohol industry and forces of substance legalization are such powerful influences. Balance with substance use can be helpful and healing, leading to freedom on dance floors, deep conversations, and mental health improvement. There are so many considerations, and no one right way to address these issues.
Folks who choose to use and those who choose sobriety can both become isolated, for different reasons. Queer people have higher substance use rates because of mental health issues arising from social trauma, family and religious trauma, panicky / phobic laws and politicians, and cultural stigma. Substances can be helpful when healing from depression, anxiety, PTSD and trauma symptoms; they can also be the cause of harm and some of these symptoms.
We see hope in the increasing trend (despite bans!) of drag brunches, library drag story hours, drag shows on TV and more. The euphoric feeling of finding your people is now accessible globally, intergenerationally, and outside of bar culture.
We don’t want the bars or the substances to go away, and we want there to be other options for folks. More than ever- given that queer culture is getting so commodified- we need to build deeper connections with each other. That’s why TQH gatherings are and will continue to be intergenerational connection and deep healing spaces and they will remain substance free.
Join us on October 14 as we learn from our past, shape our collective experiences, and share our visions for a connected and thriving community, with and without substances.
Get your tickets today at: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/october-14
This Telling Queer History Gathering:
is ASL Interpreted and held in an ADA-compliant building
will have food and non-alcoholic beverages available
has restrooms near the conference room where the event will take place
Is open to all ages of people
Is a substance-free space
tickets are free but you are invited to make a donation to TQH to cover the event costs (suggested donation of $25/person)
will have childcare available during the gathering
Join Telling Queer History for pre and post show discussions around the Northern Starz production of the Laramie Project on Sept 6th and Sept 30th at the White Bear Lake Center for the Arts.
https://northernstarz.networkforgood.com/events/59799-the-laramie-project-tickets
Join Telling Queer History and the MN Humanities Center for a walking historical tour of LGBTQ+ sites in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 8th, 2023.
Honoring queers & transcestors providing reproductive care, abortions, education & family support as the next generation of LGBTQ+ families emerge.
How do we create circles of care around us & live in circles of love that feel abundant? Join us to explore community, care, connection, & chosen love.
Get your tickets today to our December event! We’re heating things up. We’ll have conversation with storytellers from across the LGBTQ+ sex & pleasure spectrum, from asexual to sexologists, about reclaiming our sexual power, our desire and pleasure, and deepening our abilities to be embodied.
End of Life Paperwork: a legal workshop with Telling Queer History on Monday Oct 10th, 6-7:30pm. Get your ticket in order to join the virtual event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/424138608997
Join Telling Queer History and Minnesota Humanities Center for a walking tour of LGBTQ+ history with live storytelling. on Saturday Oct 8th, 2022.
https://114699a.blackbaudhosting.com/114699a/Learning-in-Community-LGBTQ-History-in-Downtown-Minneapolis
Join us for community-building, storytelling, and singing for our first event of our 2022-2023 program year: on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2-4 p.m. we will hear stories from LGBTQ+ people on death, grief, and remembering. This event will be IN-PERSON at the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association(outside, weather permitting) and live-streamed to our Facebook page.
A natural part of the cycle of life, death, loss and endings are powerful moments of transformation. You don’t have to grieve or remember alone. The collective stories we shape around death, loss, and remembering offer us support, relief and connection. Come be a part of TQH’s community-supported container holding our collective grief.
After the featured storytellers share (with ASL interpretations), we will break up into small groups or self guided activities and reflection. Activities may include karaoke, labyrinth, art making, conversation, or community alter making.
Substance free, family friendly, ASL interpreted event. Tickets are sliding scale/ pay-what-you-can ($0-$35). The livestream will be recorded.
Learn more and get your tickets now!