JOIN US FOR "JUST A QUEER MINUTE"
Like any culture, the LGBTQ+ community is built on layers of stories and experiences. With 50 years since Stonewall, and lots of history before and after it, we are a community that needs its story collecting even more than those ancestries connected by ancestral lineage.
If you identify as gay or queer, you likely have a story to share. We'd love to hear it.
"Just a Queer Minute" is the first campaign of many for this project, designed to give voice to the lived - and likely, shared - experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals from diverse and varied backgrounds. Anyone who wants to participate is invited to share their story in 60 seconds (verbally) or 200 words (written).
If you identify as gay or queer, you likely have a story to share. We'd love to hear it.
"Just a Queer Minute" is the first campaign of many for this project, designed to give voice to the lived - and likely, shared - experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals from diverse and varied backgrounds. Anyone who wants to participate is invited to share their story in 60 seconds (verbally) or 200 words (written).
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CONNECTING IN A TIME OF DISTANCING
When the AIDS crisis hit, we were in this viral world where you didn't know left from right, up from down, anything. That time period was a lived experience for many in my generation, and has become a handed down experience for those younger LGBTQ+ individuals. Here we are in this place now, and for many of us who were alive during the AIDS crisis, COVID-19 is recapitulating a lot of intense feelings we experienced decades ago. This time provides an opportunity to connect to younger folks who are now experiencing those feelings associated with "virus" firsthand. It feels the perfect time to introduce this dialogue project to the LGBTQ+ community, and its allies, providing an opportunity for all to process what is happening to us now and what has happened to us then, and paving the way to build a bridge of understanding and empathy across lines of age, race, gender, and expression.
-Peter DiMuro
Built on a foundation of our first-gay/now-queer histories in the hopes of creating a more intersectional voice for the future, Stones to Rainbows is, in itself, a commission to all those defining the current queer world in Boston and beyond. The call: celebrate your queer and accumulated selves, be inspired by the past but not a slave to it; use your talents to make a bridge for future queer lives. This feels all the more crucial given the uncertainty of the present.
We are living through an experience not felt by this world in over 100 years. As necessary precautions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic force much of the world to take cover in their homes, we find our globalized culture rapidly isolating. Fortunately, unlike 100+ years ago, we have the benefits of technology to maintain our social connection.
We invite all to join us in finding connection during a time of distancing: share your queer minute through one of our three online platforms using your choice of the suggested prompts below. Selected participants will be invited to participate in facilitated group discussions and one-on-one interviews hosted by Stones to Rainbows moderators via ZOOM.
We are living through an experience not felt by this world in over 100 years. As necessary precautions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic force much of the world to take cover in their homes, we find our globalized culture rapidly isolating. Fortunately, unlike 100+ years ago, we have the benefits of technology to maintain our social connection.
We invite all to join us in finding connection during a time of distancing: share your queer minute through one of our three online platforms using your choice of the suggested prompts below. Selected participants will be invited to participate in facilitated group discussions and one-on-one interviews hosted by Stones to Rainbows moderators via ZOOM.
PARTICIPATE THROUGH ONE OF OUR THREE ONLINE PLATFORMS:
FACEBOOK
@stonestorainbows
Entries should be 60 seconds or less. When submitting your entry, be sure to tag us using our handle and #JustAQueerMinute.
INSTAGRAM
@stonestorainbows
Entries should be 60 seconds or less. When submitting your entry, be sure to tag us using our handle and #JustAQueerMinute.
GOOGLE FORMS
Not on social media, or prefer to participate anonymously? No problem!
Fill out the Google Form below with your Queer Minute story in 200 words.
We are now accepting entries and submissions ongoing throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
@stonestorainbows
Entries should be 60 seconds or less. When submitting your entry, be sure to tag us using our handle and #JustAQueerMinute.
@stonestorainbows
Entries should be 60 seconds or less. When submitting your entry, be sure to tag us using our handle and #JustAQueerMinute.
GOOGLE FORMS
Not on social media, or prefer to participate anonymously? No problem!
Fill out the Google Form below with your Queer Minute story in 200 words.
We are now accepting entries and submissions ongoing throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
PROMPTS
Ready to share, but don't know where to start? Use one of our prompts below!
If our lives are made of multiple comings out, could you share a few? Reflect on your major "comings out" or any of the small, every day ways in which you have revealed yourself over the years.
A closet door cracks open… long enough, wide enough… to let light in, and to let it out.
What’s a memory from your life of that door cracking open?
What’s a memory from your life of that door cracking open?
If you drew your life out like a Venn diagram:
What circles do you belong to?
How do they overlap, or not?
In the LGBTQ+ community, where do you feel you belong, and where do you feel you don't belong?
What circles do you belong to?
How do they overlap, or not?
In the LGBTQ+ community, where do you feel you belong, and where do you feel you don't belong?
Given this particular moment of “distancing”, what are you learning about yourself?
What have been celebrations and struggles of your life?
What do you think celebrations and struggles have been for those within the LGBTQ+ spectrum who might be older or younger than you?
Who might be of the spectrum, but you perceive to be far from where you perceive you exist on the spectrum?
What have been celebrations and struggles of your life?
What do you think celebrations and struggles have been for those within the LGBTQ+ spectrum who might be older or younger than you?
Who might be of the spectrum, but you perceive to be far from where you perceive you exist on the spectrum?
For Allies:
What have you learned from someone who identifies as LGBTQ+?
Gay/queer people have practice coming out….how have you come out recently?
If there were an award for Queero (Queer Hero!) of the Year, who would you nominate and why?
What have you learned from someone who identifies as LGBTQ+?
Gay/queer people have practice coming out….how have you come out recently?
If there were an award for Queero (Queer Hero!) of the Year, who would you nominate and why?
Photography Credits, Top to Bottom and Left to Right:
Susan D. Fleischmann (1981), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Margot Rey (1975), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Susan D. Fleischmann (1990), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
To learn more about these photos, please visit The History Project.
Susan D. Fleischmann (1981), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Margot Rey (1975), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Susan D. Fleischmann (1990), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
To learn more about these photos, please visit The History Project.
