25th anniversary of largest ever LGBTI+ event in Amsterdam On August 1, 2023, it will be 25 years since the largest LGBTI+ event ever took place in Amsterdam. During Gay Games Amsterdam 1998, the city turned pink. This will be commemorated in Pride...
A look at the first Drag King House in Amsterdam – The House of Løstbois This exhibition presents us with an inside look at Amsterdam’s first Drag King House – The House of Løstbois. Born out of a drag king academy set up by drag educator and...
Behind the scenes of alternative archives in the Netherlands Visitors to archives often encounter only the end results of the archival process. What goes on behind the scenes at an archive? What choices are made in selection and what is the effect...
The stories in words and pictures of five LGBTQI+ icons and their shoulders on which the rainbow community stands When1 March – 30 June 2024 WhereIHLIA-plein (3e etage OBA Oosterdok) Free entranceMo-Fr: 08.00 – 22.00 hrsSa-Su: 10.00...
Representation of gay men and queer communities in the history of photography Pablo Lerma has spent the past three years researching the concept of masculinity and the lack of representation of gay men and queer communities in the history of...
Seventy years of history of trans persons in the Netherlands The exhibition Extraordinary History. Transgender in the Netherlands tells the story of the long road from rejection and prejudice to emancipation and recognition. Seventy years of history...
Fifty years of queer history on T-shirts LGBTshirtQIA+ showcases an extensive sampling of IHLIA LGBTI Heritage’s T-shirt collection. Five masterpieces are highlighted – each from different periods, areas and (sub)cultural backgrounds...
How We Behave presents materials from researcher Grant Watson’s expansive archive of interviews about radical life practices, which he has been conducting and collecting for more than ten years. Taking French philosopher Michel Foucault’s notion of...
Maaike Noorman and Tamika Marcos, PhD students at Utrecht University and Maastricht University, are conducting a large-scale study on involvement of people living with HIV and other important key groups in HIV cure research from 2020. There is...
On 31 October we welcome British scholar Richard Dyer, whose writings on stardom, entertainment, and the representation of gender, sexuality and race have made a great impact in film and cultural studies. The Richard Dyer Reader (2023), co-edited...