QP originally started as a colloquium in February 2008 to celebrate LGBT History Month at Canterbury Christ Church University.
[19] QP 4 took place in Rio de Janeiro and was organised by Rodrigo Borba, Elizabeth Lewis, Branca Fabrício and Diana Pinto,[4][20] who are also the editors of the QP 4 and QP4a books: QP4 in English was published in 2014[21] and another volume, QP4a, has been published in 2017 as a bilingual book in Portuguese and Spanish (Insurgências queer ao sul do Equador).
[27] The corresponding QP 5 volume, a hybrid and trilingual book in English, Spanglish, Spanish and Portuguese, was edited Maria Viteri and Manuela Picq (2016).
[2][29] In a final event an Emerging Scholars' day was held at the University of Kent organised by the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing.
[31] QP 7 took place on the Cayman Islands and was organised by local LGBTIQ+ activists under the sponsorship of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Dr. Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham and Professor Emeritus Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, justice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
[44][45] The following books have been published in the QP in Focus series: The Variable Body in History, edited by Chris Mounsy and Stan Booth [46] Sculpting the Woman by Jamilla Rosdahl [47] Revoke Ideology by Alipio DeSousa Filho [48]