Two-Spirit People Belong
The First LGBTQQIA+ People in the Americas
Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ people have survived 526 years of European colonization and our resurgence involves working with First Nation, Inuit, and Metis political leadership and our LGBTQQIA+ allies.
Deb-we-win Ge-ken-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle
Director Lorne Olson's film details the contemporary life of Two-Spirit people in Manitoba.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/second_stories_-our_place_in_the_circle/
A Spirit-Name for a New Generation
The term, Two-Spirit, was introduced at the third annual international LGBT Native American gathering in 1990. Elder Myra Laramee shared the name and it was quickly adopted as a spirit-name. Today, Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ and Two-Spirit are terms chosen by some Indigenous people to describe an aspect of their identity. (Photo: Original participants who were at the Basket and the Bow Gathering in Minneapolis, 1988.)