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Monica Meyer is leaving OutFront Minnesota at a very different time for the cause of LGBTQ equality than when she took over the organization more than a decade ago. It was 2010, amid a growing push across the country to ban same-sex marriage. Nearly 30 states had done so by statewide vote in the preceding few years. "They were just passing everywhere," Meyer recalled. Then, ten years ago nex

Carleton’s new Queer in Faith group seeks to hold space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in whose lives religion plays or has played any role. Hannah MacLeod ’22, a Chaplain’s Associate, founded this group last term with her friend Dawson Eriksen ’23.  “Coming out as queer this past summer…

“Wherever she goes, she tries to make space for everyone to feel safe, and that’s life-saving.”

The curator of one of the country’s premiere archives documenting LGBT history is retiring. In April, Lisa Vecoli announced her retirement after six years of expanding and organizing the University of Minnesota’s Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection. 

The right to marry was far from the only battle the LGBT community has had to fight in Minnesota. The struggle against legal discrimination was waged in force from the 1970s all the way to the early '90s.

A Minnesotan with an undying love for outdoor adventure is using his passion to promote LGBTQ inclusion in outdoor culture.

Minnesotan Mikah Meyer is about to embark on his next great adventure.

When planning for Saturday’s 16th annual PrideFest in Mankato, organizers intended to engage with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth more this year.

On Sunday, June 4, Pine City will again be the setting of one of the few rural, small-town LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) pride celebrations in the world, “East Central Minnesota Pride.”