QUS News Archive

Donderdag 5 juni een lunch en lezing in het Utrechtse provinciehuis. Experts nemen je mee in de queer historie van de provincie.

You can now suggest candidates for the Annie Brouwer-Korf Award 2025. You can also suggest QUS!

SODEMIETER is a distinctly queer event full of stories, encounters, and action – a prelude to Pride Week 2026.

The open-air exhibition Pride Photo 2025 will open on Friday 30 May at 6 pm at the Mariaplaats in Utrecht. 

Podcast series ‘Sodom’s House’: journalist Kamiel Visser dives into the history of Utrecht’s molly houses from the 18th century.

Ien Dales had intimate relationships with women, but was she lesbian? Read the renewed window.

Lecture by Maurice van Lieshout about the gay and lesbian emancipation struggle in Utrecht and the Netherlands from 1945

Tomorrow, 27-2, 8 pm, Villa Concordia is organizing a queer pechakucha evening with PechaKucha Night Utrecht.

Marijke Huisman and Gianna Mula made a special portrait of Gea Zijlstra, who fought for a better position of LGBTQIA+ in the Christian churches.

Wilfred van Buuren, head of collections at ILHIA, thinks our book ‘Utrechtenaren, een queer geschiedenis’ is the best book of 2024.

Jurryt van de Vooren, specialist in sports heritage, created a special window about Shanice van de Sanden, our national queer football hero.

Studium Generale and Tivoli-Vredenburg organize a science café about AIDS with John de Wit, Anne Wensing and Randy Vermeulen.

Gianna Mula translated the story ‘LGBTQIA+ Christians in Utrecht City’ into Italian and published it on a portal on faith and homosexuality.

The book about the famous gay disco 'De Roze Wolk' can now be viewed as a flipbook on our website.

The QUS team welcomes Nine Geertman (1976), an independent graphic designer and photographer. She designed our exposition.

In the ‘realistic novel’ 'Men who are ‘different’' (1963) the author uses the 1960s setting of Utrecht.

Utrecht as a breeding ground for LGBTQIA+ activists in Christian churches who protest, but also keep the dialogue going.  

The exhibition ‘Queer Utrecht Stories’ – which was on display in Utrecht City Hall in October – is now online on our site. 

Radio report about the Utrecht Queer Culture Festival and the Queer City Walk led by Justine Allesia on Coming Out Day 2024. 

‘He is van achter de Dom’; QUS highlights queer history in Utrecht by Mick van Dijk, Journalism student.

Yesterday our book ‘Utrechtenaren, een queer geschiedenis’ was launched in style. Alderman Linda Voortman received the first copy.