QUS News Archive

Two new canon windows: Sonja Witstein (1920-1978), the first woman on the COC board, and top athlete Jeffrey Wammes (1987).

Iris Bouman (1998) is our new social media manager. 
Welcome Iris!

RTV Utrecht made a short impression on QUS team member Kees van den Berg's life as an LGBTQ+ activist and musician. 

On Wednesday 24 January, QUS contributor Maurice van Lieshout will give a lecture on the first generation of gay activists in the Netherlands.

In the 'Unstable Image' exhibition, Cyanne van den Houten shows robotic sculptures created with algorithms and powered by QUS, among others.

Free pick-up at the Winkel van Utrecht / VVV, Savannah Bay bookshop and cafés Kalff and Bodytalk.

Maurice van Lieshout described a queer city walk for DUIC that appeared in the paper version on 8 December and can also be read online.

On Purple Friday, Queer U Stories (QUS) will launch a walk through Utrecht's rainbow history on Utrecht's Domplein.

An article on QUS by our team member Maurice van Lieshout appeared today in Gay News, no 365, in English and Dutch.

Purple Friday will see the publication of our Queer City Map, a historical walking route through the centre of Utrecht on paper.

Maurice van Lieshout wrote a window on Utrecht's rainbow hospitality industry: from the 18th century to the present, with a list of occasions and celebrations.

Yesterday, the new rainbow path on Utrecht's Lange Viestraat was unveiled, which is now shaped like the latest rainbow flag.

Yesterday, Coming Out Day, Utrecht's queer film festival won the Annie Brouwer Korf prize 2023. Congratulations QFFU!

Utrecht colours pink from 6 to 15 October during the Queer Cultural Sunday and the Utrecht Queer Cultural Festival.

Now back online: the story of Utrecht's LGBT+ history told by Marijke Huisman and Maurice van Lieshout.

In the 'History happens now' exhibition, you can see QUS with the photo of the municipal boat with rainbow canon at Utrecht Pride.

During the Utrecht Queer Culture Festival, you can take part in QUS's Queer City Walks.  

Two new windows on Christian initiatives: The Circles (1963) and the Churches Information Working Group (1974)

Lecture on 15-9-2023 in the Neude Library: in the Historical Café of association Oud Utrecht, QUS team members Marijke Huisman and Maurice van Lieshout introduce the canon of Utrecht's rich LGBT+ history.

News service 'Nieuw030' published a press release from QUS on its site on Monday, August 29, 2023, with a nice compliment, the title: 'New Utrecht queer story on a beautiful website'.

Dick Zijp, who recently did his PhD on Dutch cabaret, wrote a nice window into our canon on Claudia de Breij's rich oeuvre.