KC Oasis Sunday Gathering

10:30 am — Donuts, Coffee, and Conversation

11:00 am — Programming and Guest Speaker

Musical guest: Ramona Clay (https://www.facebook.com/RamonaClayMusic)

Community moment: Lindsey Doolittle

Featured speaker: Joseph Germain Keehn II, “Unmentionable Histories: Looking at the Past Queerly”

History is often presented as a collection of settled facts, but the stories we tell about the past are shaped by the questions we ask. What happens when we stop asking whether queer people existed in history and start asking how they lived, loved, performed, and imagined their futures? In this interactive lecture, artist and historian Joseph Germain Keehn II explores what it means to view history through a queer lens — examining the people, relationships, performances and possibilities that traditional historical narratives have often overlooked. Drawing on the research behind Queertauqua — a traveling tent show inspired by the late-19th and early-20th centuries Chautauqua movement — this hands-on program combines historical storytelling with…