LIBRARY CLOSED (WEATHER)
2022-12-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-12-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
We have decided to close Wednesday, 12/21 through Friday, 12/23.
Stay safe!

LIBRARY CLOSED (WEATHER)
2022-12-24 10:00 - 17:00 | MN
The library will be closed Saturday, December 24th, due to the weather conditions in Minneapolis.
Stay warm & safe this holiday season!

Board Game Night
2022-12-30 19:00 - 23:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us for a special end-of-2022 board game night.
Feel free to bring a board game, snack or treat to share, and friends.
There is limited parking behind the library.

Programming Committee Meeting
2023-01-05 18:30 - 20:00 | MN
This will be a hybrid in-person at the library & virtual meeting (link forthcoming).
We are planning to discuss our programming goals for 2023 and plan for an event we’re hoping to host in February. Please feel free to come to the meeting with ideas for future events and/or feedback for us from events you’ve been to recently.

January Board Games/Social Nights at the Library
2023-01-06 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-01-13 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-01-20 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-01-27 19:00 - 23:00 | MN
Join us each Friday in January our LGBTQ+ board game/social night at the library! The library is open 7-9, but games/socializing can continue.

Feel free to bring friends and a snack or treat to share. The library has a collection of games, but you are welcome to bring your own, as well.

There is limited parking behind the library, off 13th street. Please enter through the back door or call the library at 612-729-2543 to be let in.
RSVP (not required) on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/894937218357209/894937228357208/

North Country Gaylaxians January meeting
2023-01-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Please RSVP on Facebook, where you can find the Zoom link: https://www.facebook.com/events/560296032192220/

Queer Book Club: Little Fish
2023-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join the TC 30+ Book Club to discuss Little Fish by Casey Plett. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages.
It’s the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy’s Opa (grandfather) — a devout Mennonite farmer — might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy’s life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa’s truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather’s world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She’s determined to try.
Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.

RSVP (not required) on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1775471276154060?ref=newsfeed

Prime Timers Dominoes
2023-01-15 12:30 - 17:00, 2023-02-19 12:30 - 17:00 | 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.

Lesfic Book Club (VIRTUAL)
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:00 | MN
For the time being we will continue to meet virtually.
This link will be valid for all future book club meetings.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81206182864?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 812 0618 2864
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Until we can meet in person, Judy Kerr has set up Zoom for us. You can use Zoom on your phone, tablet or laptop. Download the app to your device. If you are using a laptop, depending on the browser, you may not be able to install the app. In that case simply copy the url and paste it into a browser window. 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!
If there are any lesfic books you’d like to recommend we read, please let me know!
Remember that we meet virtually the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm.

UPCOMING BOOKS:
March – Writer’s Block by Ali Vali–RomanceApril – Undertow by Jazzy Mitchell—Fiction, romance, compelling characters and plotMay – Talented Amateur by Maryn Scott—Mystery, 2021 Goldie Awards Debut FinalistJune – The Dime by Kathleen Kent—Mystery (Jessie read it and LOVED it!)July – Santorini Setup by Becky Bohan—Mystery

Friday night board games at Quatrefoil Library
2023-02-03 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-02-10 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-02-17 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-02-24 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-03-03 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-03-10 19:00 - 23:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us each Friday in February and March for our LGBTQ+ board game/social night at the library! The library is open 7-9, but games and socializing can continue after the library has closed.

You are welcome to bring friends and a snacks to share. The library has a collection of games, but you are welcome to bring your own, as well.

There is limited parking behind the library, off 13th street. Please enter through the back door or call the library at 612-729-2543 to be let in.
For more details and to RSVP (optional), see Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/511057621185309/511057631185308/

Free, live phone call reading of Jerker
2023-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Free, live phone call reading of Robert Chesley’s one-act play Jerker.
We loved when Maxe and Emmett performed this at Quatrefoil last year & highly recommend you give this a call/listen.
Details in the attached flyer; click here to view the Facebook post.

Queer Book Club: Giovanni's Room
2023-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, February 8th, at 7pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be meeting to discuss Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages.
In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin’s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/784662299294082?ref=newsfeed

The Engagement: A conversation about the fight for marriage equality with Sasha Issenberg
2023-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us at Quatrefoil Library on Saturday, February 11th, at 3pm for a conversation with author, reporter, and professor Sasha Issenberg. Just in time for the 10-year anniversary of gay marriage’s legalization in Minnesota, Issenberg will discuss his book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. Moderated by Telling Queer History’s Founder and Executive Director, Rebecca Jean (RJ) Lawrence, this conversation will dive deep into the ways in which smaller, local battles set the stage for the Obergefell decision in 2015.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the conversation.
Registration is free, but required: https://bit.ly/theengagementqlibrary

Sasha’s Bio:
Sasha Issenberg is the author of three previous books, on topics ranging from the global sushi business to medical tourism and the science of political campaigns. He covered the 2008 election as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, the 2012 election for Slate, the 2016 election for Bloomberg Politics and Businessweek, and 2020 for The Recount. He is the Washington correspondent for Monocle, and has also written for New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he served as a contributing editor. He teaches in the political science department at UCLA.

RJ’s Bio:
Rebecca Jean (RJ) Lawrence is the Founder and Executive Director of Telling Queer History. They are also a photographer, working primarily with nonprofits and the LGBTQ+
community to document events and make portraits for the last 10 years.
Rebecca was raised in Minneapolis and attended college at Seattle University in Washington. They have worked with many companies to connect with LGBTQ+ community and history, including Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), Minnesota Opera, Kaleo, Metro Transit, and Metro State. Rebecca also spends a lot of time cooking, reading about queer history, gardening, learning and practicing herbal medicine, dancing, and listening to podcasts.

North Country Gaylaxians Monthly Meeting
2023-02-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | MN
North Country Gaylaxians Book ClubThe Twin Cities’ chapter of the Gaylactic Network.We read and discuss Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror and other speculative fiction with LGBTQ+ or similar content or by LGBTQ+ authors.We meet the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pmQuatrefoil Library 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 612-729-2543Due to Covid-19 pandemic, this meeting will be conducted online via Zoom MeetingJoin Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86548507595…• Meeting ID: 865 4850 7595 • Passcode: [REDACTED]

Check us out on Facebook under North Country Gaylaxianshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/196936024304/ or visit ncgaylaxians.org,
join the mailing list for regular gaming notices; or FFI: 651-307-4239; d-lena@umn.edu

Coming in Fall 2023, the return of ConFABulous: (10/20 – 10/22/2023) an in-person event featuring panels and gaming at the Crowne Plaza Suites in MPLS. www.confabulous.org

LIBRARY CLOSED (WEATHER)
2023-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Due to the expected snowstorm in Minneapolis, we will be closed Wednesday, February 22nd.

Stay tuned for an update about Thursday.

We hope everyone stays warm and safe during this weather!

LIBRARY CLOSED (WEATHER)
2023-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | MN
The library is closed Thursday, February 23rd due to weather and road conditions.

We hope everyone stays safe and warm — use the time to catch-up with a good book!

LIBRARY CLOSED (WEATHER)
2023-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | MN
Due to low visibility & anticipated further snowfall, we’ve decided to close the library tonight.
Stay safe everyone!
