On September 15, 2023, Marijke Huisman and Maurice van Lieshout presented some highs and lows from Utrecht’s queer history for some 100 visitors of the Historical Café Oud-Utrecht in the library on the Neude in Utrecht. Oud-Utrecht recorded their performance.

In the exhibition ‘History happens now’ on the ILHIA square in the Amsterdam Public Library, QUS is included with the photo of Mayor Dijksma waving at the municipal boat with the rainbow canon at the Utrecht Pride.

Lecture on the Utrecht rainbow canon, Sept 15, 5 p.m., Library Neude Utrecht

New window: comedian Claudia de Breij

EuroGames Utrecht 2005, international sports event.

Updates of the windows of PANN and Pink Saturday in the Utrecht Rainbow Canon.

The ambassadors of Roze 50+ work on good support for LGBTI+ elderly people. They have won the highest Dutch award for LGBTI+ emancipation: the Jos Brink oeuvre award 2023. They received the award on 4 June in Amsterdam from Minister Dijkgraaf. QUS team member Kees van den Berg is one of these ambassadors.

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

The KB, the Dutch National Library, has designated QUS as digital heritage.

Beautiful images from Utrecht gay disco The Pink Cloud (De Roze Wolk) in the 90s on local TV. The occasion is an exhibition in the Utrecht Archive with materials from this famous disco on display.

QUS wants to make a series of portraits of well-known LGBTI+ citizens of Utrecht (f/m/x) from the past and present.

QUS is looking for well-known Utrecht LGBTI+ athletes from the past and present.

Arjan den Boer of the Oud-Utrecht Association speaks with Marijke Huisman about the Utrecht rainbow canon

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‘Sexual orientation’ included as a ground for discrimination in the Dutch constitution.