QUEERSPACE collective is overjoyed to share that our Executive Director & Founder Nicki Hangsleben received the Brian Coyle Award — For Outstanding Leadership & Service to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Community — from Human Rights Campaign Minnesota at their Minnesota Dinner on October 18, 2025.

By Angelie Hu (they/them) When my Nai Nai first came to the U.S. as a grad student from Taiwan, the unthinkable happened: one of her bags...

I am gender queer / gender fluid / nonbinary. I use they/them and she/her pronouns. This is recent. In the last year… The inclusion of they.

My wife - Allyson - and I moved with our two young children (ages 4 and 7) to Minneapolis from Durham, North Carolina on January 1, 2024. This wasn’t our first relocation, but we are hoping it’s our last!  In 2021, we moved from California to North Carolina, in the hopes of settling down in a place that felt like a good place to raise our kids; a place that we could afford to buy a home; and a place where we didn’t have to be worried about evacuating wildfires. In some ways,