Nestled in the heart of the world’s most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area, Queens College has been for decades the site of a thriving community of out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer peoples and their allied friends. The first evidence of students organizing for sexual freedom and lesbian and gay rights dates back to the early 1970s, and coalitions like the Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance (GLASA) and the Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding (CERRU) have a rich history building visibility and community for LGBTQ people in the borough of Queens. Alumni of Queens College have gone on to become public advocates, activists, lawyers, and community organizers across the country, and particularly in the borough of Queens. This oral history project begins the work of documenting how queer people from a broad range of class and racial backgrounds have found one another again and again throughout QC’s history, how they lived and organized while in attendance, and how their experiences at QC shaped the trajectory of their life. As Lesbian Herstory Archives cofounder and former QC professor Joan Nestle wrote, “we choose the history that we say is ours and by so doing, we write the character of our people in time.” By collecting the stories of LGBTQ and allied students, staff, and alumni, this project aims to illuminate what it has meant, will mean in the future, and means now in this present moment to be queer at Queens College.