Email Author Joel Hoekstra

1998 Stories by Joel Hoekstra

• History Play

  published December 1, 1998

  As the first act of Gross Indecency drew to a close during its opening-night performance at the Guthrie Lab, I found myself distracted.... More >>

• The National Agenda

  published December 1, 1998

  These four Minnesota women are shaping the way the GLBT movement thinks about politics, AIDS, and grassroots organizing. Can they change a nation? More >>

• Orchestra improves benefits for same-sex couples

  published December 1, 1998

  Gay and lesbian employees of the Minnesota Orchestra will no longer have to pay higher costs than their heterosexual colleagues to purchase... More >>

• Person: Elf Esteem

  published December 1, 1998

  SantaLand's Rothstein More >>

• The Importance of Being Oscar

  published November 1, 1998

  Aesthete Oscar Wilde is the talk of the town again as the Guthrie Lab mounts a play about his trials. More >>

• Lessons from a Lynching

  published November 1, 1998

  Wyoming seemed a distant place until I set foot in the Cathedral Church of St. Mark last month. I'd read the newspaper reports with trepidation... More >>

• Radical Youth

  published October 1, 1998

  Meet 10 teens and twentysomethings working to improve conditions for the queer kids that follow in their wake. More >>

• Vice and Virtue

  published October 1, 1998

  Q Monthly scores awards, thanks to our writers. More >>

• Watertown meeting on gay harassment draws both supporters and skeptics

  published October 1, 1998

  City officials stayed away, but neighbors came to support. More >>

• Piece meal

  published October 1, 1998

  Veggie pizza by the pound, only in Nordeast Minneapolis. More >>

• Social Principals

  published October 1, 1998

  A Nebraska minister who fought for gay rights in the Methodist church plans to visit Minnesota. More >>

• Safety Network

  published October 1, 1998

  Queer youth and allies come together at an upcoming conference and college fair. More >>

• Orono's Teachable Moment

  published September 1, 1998

  High school Gay/Straight Alliance runs into wall of intolerance. More >>

• OutFront organizes Watertown community meeting

  published September 1, 1998

  Spurred by a Watertown family's complaints of anti-gay harassment in their community, OutFront Minnesota has organized a town meeting and a... More >>

• Thing: The Great Gay and Lesbian Cook Off

  published September 1, 1998

  Cooking experts (sans Julia) will venture to Camp Snoopy for a big Cook Out at Camp Out More >>

• Visible Vision

  published September 1, 1998

  Choreographer Bill T. Jones focuses on form and aesthetics in his return to the Northrop. More >>

• See It: Tune in to HIV

  published September 1, 1998

  Local videographer captures life with HIV. More >>

• On Their Marks

  published August 1, 1998

  Minnesota athletes prepare for Gay Games V in Amsterdam. More >>

• Queer Notions

  published August 1, 1998

  Post-AIDS? Post-gay? Pro-marriage and more ... More >>

• OutFront aims to strengthen outstate ties

  published August 1, 1998

  MN's largest GLBT organization expands its outstate presence. More >>

• See It: Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss blows into the Lagoon Theatre

  published August 1, 1998

  In an age that demands instant gratification, the camera of choice is, naturally, a Polaroid. One click, one whirr, and the world comes into... More >>

• The Other Epidemic

  published July 1, 1998

  HIV can be deadly. But other STDs also impact the health of Minnesota’s GLBT community. More >>

• On the Q 'T'

  published July 1, 1998

  Long before she began her current job as a Twin Cities social worker, MJ Gilbert lived a life as a boy. For years, however, the boy was the... More >>

• About 'Out with Clout'

  published June 1, 1998

  We're proud of the Q Monthly you're holding in your hands. And not just because we're obligated to "have pride" in the month of... More >>

• Council chooses 'OutFront Minnesota' as new name

  published June 1, 1998

  After several months of test-marketing ideas and at least one false start, the Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council announced May 22 that... More >>