Rainbow Reads
2025-11-02 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer reading party (not a book club) that meets in the Library on the first Sunday of every month. This group allows people to share what they have been reading and interested in, rather than discuss one book everyone has read.

Twin Cities Aroace Solidarity Group
2025-11-02 13:30 - 15:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Twin Cities Aroace Solidarity group is a joyful, embracing 21+ creative community for progressive aroace-spec (aromantic and/or asexual spectrum) and queer allies to share mutual aid and friendship. We gather to socialize and discuss queer media.
Find us on Meetup at: meetup.com/twin-cities-aroace-solidarity

Technology Committee Meeting
2025-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The tech committee meets hybrid on the first Tuesday of each month. Contact technology@quatrefoil.org if you are interested in joining!

Queer Threads
2025-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer threads: a weekly intergenerational craft night for LGBTQ people of all genders
what: a weekly craft night for knitting, crochet, embroidery, mending, quilting, and other portable crafts
why: find community and camaraderie with other LGBTQ crafters
who: for all ages and genders. Kids are welcome, but childcare is not provided.
where: Quatrefoil Library at 1220 E Lake St Minneapolis.
when: 1st and 3rd Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm
accessibility: please wear a mask.
help us cultivate a welcoming group: crafting is for all gender identities and types of gender expression; ask for (rather than assume) pronouns; all types of yarn and materials, experience levels, and portable craft projects are welcome.

Quatrefoil Board Meeting
2025-11-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Quatrefoil Board meets monthly on the first Thursday of the month in the Community Room.

Radical Queer Tarot Reading Group
2025-11-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Radical Queer Tarot Reading Group is a space for novice to expert tarot readers to gather in non-hierarchical community to explore applying the wisdom of the tarot to apocalyptic times. We’ll focus on reading BIPOC/Queer/Leftist/Radical/Anti-Capitalist authors of tarot interpretation, discussing what we’re learning, & doing tarot spreads together to experience & interpret our new ideas. From tarot-curious to tarot master — if this offering speaks to you, please join us. Contact radicalqueertarotreadinggroup@gmail.com for more information.

Pandemic Poetry Open Mic, hosted by Monica K. Allen
2025-11-08 15:00 - 16:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
On Saturday, November 8, 2025, Monica K. Allen (she/her) will host a FREE, Pandemic Poetry Open Mic, centering poets who are Covid bereaved, Long Covid survivors, and/or from another most-impacted community.

Event Location: Quatrefoil Library Community Room (1220 E. Lake St., Minneapolis)
Event Time: 3:00-4:30pm CT

Poets must register to guarantee a spot for the event. Poets will receive an email confirming their participation by Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 6pm CT.

Poets will have a 4-minute time limit including self-introduction and 1-3 poems. (The host will announce each poet’s name to keep the flow, and will cut in at 4 minutes, so please plan accordingly.) Up to 18 poets will read at this event and any experience level is welcome. If there are spaces still available on November 8th, readers can signup at the event – first come, first served.

Accessibility offerings:
-N95/KF94/KN95 Masks Required.
-Masks will be available on-site for those who need one.
-One Medify Air Purifier will be running.
-Monica will speak slowly and loudly, and ask the poets to do the same.

Transportation and Parking:
–Metro Transit Trip Planner
-Parking lot in back of the building (north side), entrance off 13th Avenue.
-Street Parking

Please do not attend if showing symptoms of illness or if exposed to Covid/Flu/RSV in the last 7 days.

Monica K. Allen Bio:

Parent. Caregiver. Professional Organizer. Covid Bereaved Daughter. Breast Cancer Survivor. Connector. Amplifier. Advocate. Long Covid Survivor. White Cis-Woman. Poet.

Questions? Email monicakayallen@gmail.com.

Quatrefoil Game Night
2025-11-08 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-22 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Q LIBRARY CLOSED
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-14 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Quatrefoil Library will be closed from November 10th through 14th so that the carpets in our space can be replaced. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes. We will re-open on Saturday, November 15th at 1pm, looking fresh and clean!

OFFSITE: Protest Lines Concert
2025-11-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
https://www.onevoicemn.org/

One Voice Mixed Chorus, Minnesota’s premier LGBTQIA+ and allied ensemble, presents Protest Lines.
This concert explores the role of music as a form of resistance and a testament to human resilience. Audiences will experience a dynamic blend of historical and contemporary protest songs that have galvanized movements and uplifted communities. Beyond performance, Protest Lines functions as a community sing-in: the chorus will teach audience members several protest songs in real time, transforming passive listening into active participation and equipping attendees with music to bring to the streets, their community and civic actions.

Protest Lines Digital Poster for Dist.

Programming Committee Meeting
2025-11-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Regular meeting of the Quatrefoil Programming Committee. Committee meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the library (with a virtual option available for committee members) from 6:00 – 7:00pm. Reach out to programming@quatrefoil.org if you are interested in joining.

North Country Gaylaxians Book Club (Online)
2025-11-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The meeting of the Twin Cities chapter of the Gaylactic Network, an organization for the GLBT fan community, whether it be science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, or gaming. We read and discuss books of speculative fiction with GLBT or similar content or by GLBT authors. We meet the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm on Zoom. Also, monthly gaming get-togethers in a private home.

Info on events can be found on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthCountryGaylaxians/

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event by Moon Palace Books
Public · Join us for Queer Book Club every second Wednesday from 7-8pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407! (Please note that in the summer we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Queer Book Club April

Wednesday Apr 9th, 2025

7:00 PM

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8:00 PM

Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, April 9th, at 7:00pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be discussing Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
“Blood Orange” is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.
This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it. The poems within “Blood Orange” were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.

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OFFSITE: Why Do We Need a Queer Holocaust History?
2025-11-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Queermunity, 3036 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Hájková – November 13 (4)

Library Patron's Union Meeting
2025-11-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Library Patrons Union is an explicitly leftist, community-run union of Hennepin County Library patrons, organizing for more just public libraries. https://librarypatronsunion.com
Email librarypatronsunion@gmail.com with questions.

OFFSITE: Safer Sex Kit Assembly at Family Tree Clinic
2025-11-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Family Tree Clinic, 1919 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
Join us for an evening of volunteering @ Family Tree Clinic! We will:

assemble safer sex kits
fold zines
be merry!

Feel free to come for any/all of the evening. We will provide light refreshments & great vibes. This is the third event in the We Take Care of Us: Queer Resilience Event Series with Quatrefoil Library.
ACCESSIBILITY: Family Tree Clinic is located on the same block as the 2 and the 18 buses. There is a bike rack outside of our building. There is a parking lot right next to Family Tree Clinic with accessible parking spaces, as well as parking across Nicollet in the church parking lot. We provide masks inside of Family Tree Clinic. Our doors remain locked, and our Welcome Desk is staffed inside the door, and lets folks in via an intercom system. We have many spaces, both inside and out, where folks can take their masks off and be distanced from others.

Hotline:
The Minnesota Sexual Health Hotline provides reliable, medically accurate, and confidential information for free via phone, text, and webchat. All calls are patient positive, LGBTQ+ competent, and with a trained health educator.
The hotline services are sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Health, and operated by Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis.

FTC:
Family Tree Clinic’s mission is to cultivate a healthy community through comprehensive sexual health care and education.

Prime Timers Bookclub
2025-11-15 13:15 - 15:15 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
This monthly book club is a subgroup of the Twin Cities Prime Timers Club, which is affiliated with the state and national organizations. It meets each third Saturday of the month at Quatrefoil from 1:15pm – 3:15pm.
Book of the month:

Prime Timers Book Club
2025-11-15 13:15 - 15:15 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
This monthly book club is a subgroup of the Twin Cities Prime Timers Club, which is affiliated with the state and national organizations. It meets each third Saturday of the month at Quatrefoil from 1:15pm – 3:15pm.
March Book of the Month: Shortest Way Home By Peter Buttigieg

Queer Mending Workshop with Queer Threads
2025-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join Queer Threads members Kayla and Sara as they walk you through mending your own textiles! Participants are expected to bring textile items from home that they want to mend, and Queer Threads can troubleshoot or give advice, this is a coworking event and a space for people interested in textiles to work and chat in good company. Outside of the materials to mend, a small amount of loops, needles, and thread will be available for people to use, though you are welcome to bring your own from home.
This is the fourth and final event in the We Take Care of Us: Queer Resilience Event Series with Quatrefoil Library. Masks will be required while in the Community Room.

R.O.M.E.O. Book Club
2025-11-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
A book club open to all! Named after the founder’s late grandfather’s lunch group “Really Old Men Eating Out.” This group meets twice monthly at the Library couch space to discuss our progress on our reading and enjoy the company of fellow queer people.
September: Assata by Assata Shakur
October: The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
November: Son of a Witch by Gregory Macguire
December: There There by Tommy Orange

Prime Timers Dominoes
2025-11-16 13:00 - 16:00 | MN
Join the Prime Timers for an afternoon of dominoes. Feel free to bring a snack to share and your dominoes set, though not required.

Queer Threads
2025-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer threads: a weekly intergenerational craft night for LGBTQ people of all genders
what: a weekly craft night for knitting, crochet, embroidery, mending, quilting, and other portable crafts
why: find community and camaraderie with other LGBTQ crafters
who: for all ages and genders. Kids are welcome, but childcare is not provided.
where: Quatrefoil Library at 1220 E Lake St Minneapolis.
when: Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm
accessibility: please wear a mask.
help us cultivate a welcoming group: crafting is for all gender identities and types of gender expression; ask for (rather than assume) pronouns; all types of yarn and materials, experience levels, and portable craft projects are welcome.

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club (Online)
2025-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month:
2025
November—WATERLOGGED by Nance Sparks
December—THE SAFEKEEP by Yael Van der Wouden (in hardcover now, but will be out in paperback May 27th)
2026
January—SWITCH by Ann McMann

OFFSITE: Trans Day of Remembrance Rally & Vigil
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Loring Park, 1382 Willow St., Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
This Trans Day of Remembrance, join us in honoring and fighting for our murdered trans siblings with a rally and vigil in Loring Park. Now is the time to show up for trans lives. More details to come.

OFFSITE: Weird Sapphics
2025-11-20 19:00 - 20:30 | MN
“The 80s: The greatest decade alive… unless you’re a dorky teenage lesbian, then it pretty much totally sucks!”
A campy sapphic comedy loosely based on the 1985 John Hughes classic “Weird Science.” Featuring a Frankenstein-ed beautiful woman, pure gay-ighties antics, and all the charm two loser high school lesbians can muster. Who’s ready to rock?!
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm. https://www.facebook.com/share/1ANngmm5J3/
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we’ll take care of the rest.

MNPoly Community Building Event
2025-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
*Rescheduled and hosted in the Library instead of the Community Room for November and December events*
Let’s bring the MNPoly community together on a monthly basis with some exercises designed to build connections.
We will have an ice breaker as a whole group, then break up into groups of 4-5 to perform a team building exercise that helps us really get to know each other a bit more. We’ll scramble the groups and do a second exercise. Then, we’ll get back together as one big group to discuss what might change for next time. To conclude the night we will finish with an open mingling session to hang with some of your new-found friends!

Transgender Book Club
2025-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Transgender Book Club meets the fourth Sunday of the month from 1-2pm to discuss books by and about trans people. We welcome people of all genders, orientations, and backgrounds!
2025 Meeting Calendar:
1/26 Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi2/23 Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo3/23 Bluff by Danez Smith4/27 Pageboy by Elliot Page5/25 Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio6/22 We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy7/27 A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell8/24 The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach9/28 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia10/26 Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman11/23 Marley’s Pride by Joelle Retener

Volunteer Committee Meeting
2025-11-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Our volunteer committee is responsible for recruiting and training volunteers. They also maintain our volunteer schedule, for operating hours and special events.
Anyone is welcome to stop in if interested in joining, or to share constructive ideas. You can also sign up via our volunteer form.
This meeting is held in the library space, with a virtual option available.
