University of Regina Queer Initiative spotlights queer life on the prairies
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The University of Regina Queer Initiative (URQI) was established in 2007 with the goal of supporting 2SLGBTQIAP+ faculty and staff at the University of Regina. That same year, URQI also started a speaker series called Out on The Prairies with different speakers giving talks about various aspects of queer life in Saskatchewan. From the time of its inception till the recent past, there had only been periodic events followed by a few years of inactivity. Recently, URQI’s primary organizer Randal Rogers restarted the series. We got in touch with Randal Rogers to find out more.
A lot of people stayed, Korinek said. And they stayed purposely because they wanted to be here.
She said there have been generations of queer people in the area. They didn t just endure. They carved out lives, they made space, they were engaged in activism. They tried to change these cities for the better, for other queer people. And they have largely been forgotten from history. So it s really important to put them back in.
Korinek is also the author of Prairie Fairies, which documents queer histories in western Canada from 1930 to 1985(Submitted by Valerie Korinek)
Korinek is also the author of