Pride Care Package
Drag Queen Tutorials
Practice your skills with these tutorials from local drag queens Doña Pepa, Tygra and Puffy!
Learn how to bake with Puffy, apply a glitter beard and a reading from the children’s book Ze with Doña Pepa, and learn makeup tips with Tygra.
2SLGBTQIA+ Staff Picks
Members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group share their favorite artworks.
Chive Blossom Zine
Artist-activists hclou and Lo (aka Picklewitch) share their Chive Blossom Zine.
Queer Icon Coloring Pages
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a self-described Black lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet whose work explored gender, sexuality, and race. She spoke up not only about the injustices that queer Black women face, but the classism that was ever-present in her environment. She founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press with other women of color poets. From prose to theory, poetry, and speeches, Audre was a master of writing and truly eloquent in writing about injustices she saw and her own experience moving through the world.
—Harper Steinbach
Marsha P. Johnson
“Marsha P. Johnson’s work and her leading role in the Stonewall riots have always been an inspiration to me. I admire her bravery and her ambition so much. She helped lay a lot of the groundwork for getting the queer community our rights and our visibility, even though we still have a long ways to go. Also that story about her hitting a cop with a purse full of bricks…you gotta love that.”
—Noah Lawrence-Holder
Community Resources
Check out these resources from Shift MN and Tretter Collection:
Shift MN is a team of people focused on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ people in the Twin Cities. We envision LGBTQIA+ communities where everyone has equitable access to resources that allow us to be fully healthy.
About the zine:
We believe that art can bring connection, healing, celebration, reflection, change, and more. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has kept us physically apart for most of the past year, we wanted to share art together and support queer artists. Thus Coloring with Shift was born. This little zine was put together late in the summer of 2020 and is a collaboration between Shift and six queer artists. We hope it brings you pride, reflection, and joy.
Downloand Coloring and Affirmation Booklet
The Power of Self Care & Self Expression by Queering Community Health
Twin Cities’ artist Cedar Thomas (they/them) interviews a panel of local creatives to hear their experiences and advice regarding mental health, creativity, self-care and self-expression.
Twin Cities LGBTQ Periodicals in the Tretter Collection
Within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, researchers can find periodicals that cater to a wide range of communities within the larger LGBTQ community.
Subject Guide: Twin Cities-based LGBTQ+ Periodicals Held in the Tretter Collection, 1960s to Present Day
The Twin Cities region has, at least since the middle of the 20th century, nurtured a wide variety of LGBTQ print periodicals. Some of these publications were short-lived; others lasted for decades. Many of these publications are contained within the holdings of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies.
Subject Guide: Policing and Prisons in the Tretter Collection
Police and prisons are a persistent presence in the histories of queer people and the struggle for liberation. The way that police and prisons have shown up in queer history has transformed over time, but one certainty is that same-sex love and gender non-conformity have long been criminalized.