QUS News Archive

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.

Our book ‘Utrechtenaren, een queer geschiedenis’ is now available in bookstores and can be ordered online.

Queer U Stories, Savannah Bay and WBOOKS invite you to the book presentation of 'Utrechtenaren, a queer history'.

Exhibition ‘Queer Utrecht Stories’: How did people live who did not fit within the sex and gender norms of their time live?

Historical queer city walk in Utrecht during the Utrecht Queer Culture Festival. Discover the hidden history of the city.

Carel Jansen wrote a special bio about Jan Leverman alias Robert Long.