QUS News Archive

Lieke van Noord wrote a window on an unusual Utrecht administrator: Hans Rosenberg (1943-1992).

EuroGames Utrecht 2005, international sports festival.

Renewed windows about PANN and the national Pride Days in Utrecht's Rainbow Canon.

The Utrecht Archive has started crowd funding for a Utrecht picture book. 

The ambassadors for elderly LGBTQI+ (Ambassadeurs Roze 50+), including core team member Kees van den Berg, have won the highest Dutch award for LGBTI+ emancipation: the Jos Brink lifetime achievement award.

Hidden places for LGBT+: Adrianne Dercksen wrote an article about it in the Utrecht inner city newspaper.

Gay disco The Pink Cloud on NPO 2

On May 4th we commemorate war victims. What do we know about LGBTI+ in World War II?

Maurice van Lieshout describes the career of historian, archaeologist and lhbti+ activist Judith Schuyf. She has spent her life fighting for LGBT+ rights.  

Sonneveld expert Carel Jansen takes a closer look at the role of homosexuality in his life and career in the window on Utrecht resident Wim Sonneveld.

Marijke Huisman describes the life of Gloria Wekker, the second Surinamese-Dutch woman to become a professor at Utrecht University. She put intersectional thinking on the agenda.

Maurice van Lieshout describes the life of Marie Anne Tellegen, better known as Dr Max, the World War II resistance hero. She was the vice mayor of Utrecht before the war and the vice queen of the Netherlands after the war.

Two new windows of famous Utrecht LHBTI+: Sylvia Bodnár and Petronella Moens. 

QUS has a new canon about famous Utrecht LHBTI+. The first two windows are for sodomite and nobleman Frederik van Renswoude and artist and transgender activist Dirkje Kuik.

The Royal Library will save our website regularly from today. This way, the Utrecht rainbow canon will remain available for research in the future.

Beautiful footage from gay disco De Roze Wolk in the 1990s. Route C, RTV Utrecht, 16-3-23.

QUS wants to make a series of portraits of famous Utrechtaren (v/m/x) from the past and present. Who do you want on the list besides Claudia de Breij, Dirkje Kuik, Robert Long, Wim Sonneveld and Baron Van Renswoude?

QUS is looking for well-known Utrecht LGBT+ athletes, past and present. Do you know someone or is it you?

Podcast with Marijke Huisman about Utrecht's rainbow canon (in Dutch).

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'Sexual orientation' included as a ground for discrimination in the Dutch Constitution.