Timeline of VINE Efforts to Queer Animal Liberation and Promote Veganism in LGBTQ+ Communities

Cheryl Wylie speaking at 2018 Albany Pride Festival

2014 Queer Vegan Speak-Out in Boston

2025—Local LGBTQ+ Speak Out in cooperation with local public library and National LGBT Help Center
2025—Special Frog and Toad-themed Drag Story Hour on site at the sanctuary: Organized in cooperation with In Defense of Animals and Drag Story Hour Vermont, this special humane education session taught attendees about amphibians and how to help them
2025—Third annual Rainbow-Palooza combined Pride & VegFest cosponsored by National LGBT Help Center and Springfield Town Library and featuring vegan drag queen Honey LaBronx
2025—Special Pride Month virtual workshop on “How to Be a Sanctuary” taught attendees how to create safe spaces for others, including animals and LGBTQ+ people
2025—Virtual workshop on Queering Animal Liberation
2025—Fifth annual Pride Month Vegan Challenge
2025—VINE cofounder pattrice jones lectures on linkages at an International Summer School in the Netherlands for animal studies scholars
2025—VINE cofounder pattrice jones lectures on linkages at an animal studies conference in Moscow
2024—VINE Press publishes Bird’s-Eye Views: Queer Queries About Activism, Animals, and Identity
2024—Local LGBTQ+ Speak Out in cooperation with local public library and National LGBT Help Center
2024—Special meeting of the VINE Book Club featuring Breeze Harper on the topic of queer vegan fiction
2024—Second annual Rainbow-Palooza Pride & VegFest, cosponsored by National LGBT Help Center and Springfield Town Library and featuring vegan Olympian Seba Johnson
Virtual workshop on Queering Animal Libration
2024—Fourth annual Pride Month Vegan Challenge
2023—Local LGBTQ+ Speak Out in cooperation with local public library
2023—First annual Rainbow-Palooza combined Pride and VegFest: This first of its kind event was cosponsored by our local public library and featured Afro-Vegan Society cofounder Brenda Sanders
2023—Queer Vegan Roundtable (video recording here)
2023—Third annual Pride Month Vegan Challenge
2022—Local LGBTQ+ Speak Out
2022—Expansion of Pride Month Vegan Challenge to year-round Rainbow Vegan Challenge
2022—Local Pride Month Vegan Picnic
2022—In Context episode on Queering Animal Liberation
2021—First annual Pride Month Vegan Challenge
2021—Co-facilitated roundtable of LGBTQIA+ vegan organizers
2019—”Queering Animal Liberation” session at national Animal Rights Conference
2019—Local lecture on LGBTQ history at annual Pride Month Vegan Potluck
2019—”Queer Eros in the Enchanted Forest: The Spirit of Stonewall as Sustainable Energy” published in special 50th anniversary of Stonewall edition of QED journal (pdf here)
2018—”Queering Animal Liberation” lecture at Montreal Vegan Festival
2018—Tabled and spoke at Albany Pride Festival
2018—Lecture at University of Vermont cosponsored by LGBTQ and animal rights student groups
2017—New brochure, “Does eating the rainbow make you gay?” debuts at our first annual Pride Month Vegan Potluck
2016—”Mad Cows, Queer Ducks, and Unconventional Sheep: What I’ve Learned about Intersectionality from Animals at VINE Sanctuary” talk at Conscious Eating Conference (CA) (video here)
2016—Public lecture at St. Michael’s College (VT) exploring why Russian authorities considered stories of a friendship between a tiger and a goat to be subversive pro-homosexual propaganda; classroom visit to Peace & Justice class sketching links between LGBTQ and animal liberation
2015—Presentation on “Queering Animal Liberation” at the national Animal Rights Conference (DC)
2015—”Pride” series of blog posts on LGBTQ-animal intersections
2015—Panel on “Queering Animal Liberation” at the Left Forum (NYC) (recap here)
2015—Workshop on food justice and veganism as “queer empowerment” presented at the Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference (MA)
2015—Lecture on “Queering Animal Liberation” at Vassar College
2014—First issue of VINE zine “Plant-Powered People: Voices from the Intersections”
2014—”Eros and the Mechanisms of Eco-Defense” by VINE cofounder pattrice jones published in Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Adams & Gruen, eds.)
2014—Workshop on “Veganism as Empowerment” at the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HBGC) Youth Empowerment Conference (MA)
2014—”Queer Vegan Speak-Out” in Boston organized by VINE (write-up here)
2014—”Race, Class, Sex… & Species? Linking Feminist, Queer, and Animal Liberation” lecture at Smith College (video here)
2013—”Queering Animal Liberation” lecture at Resistance Ecology conference (OR)
2013—”Environmental & LGBTQ Activism and the Biodiversity of Sexuality” lecture at Oberlin College (OH)
2012—”Queer Eros and the Ethos of Care” (Presentation at the Wesleyan University “Finding a Niche for All Animals” conference in honor of the late Marti Kheel)
2011—International Women’s Day address at Hollins University (VA): “Some of those penguins were gay! Coming out for animals on International Women’s Day.”
2010—Workshop at Their Lives, Our Voices conference (MN): “Queering Animal Liberation”
2009—Jean-Claude dies of liver failure. Previously healthy Jean-Paul follows within a week.
2008—Set up “Queering Animal Liberation” website
2006—”Queering the Common Oppression of Women and Animals” presentation at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (WI)
2006—Facilitated meeting of LGBTQ animal advocates at AR2006 annual national Animal Rights Conference (DC); followed up by setting up online work group for meeting participants
2005—”Of Brides and Bridges: Linking Feminist, Queer, and Animal Liberation Movements” published in Satya Magazine
2005—Cofacilitated “Coming Out for Animals: Queer and Animal Liberation” workshop at national Grassroots Animal Rights Conference (NY)
2005—”Gay Liberation and Animal Liberation: What’s the Connection?” presentation/workshop at Syracuse University (NY)
2004—”Animal Liberation and Gay Liberation: What’s the Connection?” workshop for Rochester community activists (NY)
2003—”Queering Animal Liberation” presentation at Bard College (NY)
2003—”Queering Animal Liberation” presentation at Central Michigan University (MI)
2002—Led “Queering Animal Liberation” workshop for gay and animal rights activists in Salt Lake City (UT)
2002—Foie gras factory refugees flock to the sanctuary, two of whom—Jean-Paul and Jean-Claude—are a bonded pair
2002—Outlined links between gay/lesbian rights and animal liberation on episode of PBS series In the Life. (Video here.)

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