News from QUS

In June, the provincial government building will host an exhibition on Utrecht's queer history. Archimedeslaan 6, Mon-Fri 8:30-17:00

Thursday 5 June a lunch and lecture in the Utrecht provincial government building. Experts will take you through the queer history of the city and province.

Je kunt nu kandidaten voordragen voor de Annie Brouwer-Korf prijs 2025. Je kunt ook QUS voordragen!

SODEMIETER is een uitgesproken queer event vol verhalen, ontmoeting & actie – opmaat naar 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.