diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index a58c03d981..00f919cc9e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changelog
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
  * Added support for Python 3.7 (Matt Westcott)
+ * Fix: Query objects returned from `PageQuerySet.type_q` can now be merged with `|` (Brady Moe)
 
 
 2.3 LTS (23.10.2018)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index ae8e7f031e..7b7423ab4d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ Contributors
 * Meteor0id
 * Naa Marteki Reed
 * Jorge Barata
+* Brady Moe
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.4.rst b/docs/releases/2.4.rst
index 1c287acc52..6ddea4594b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.4.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.4.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Other features
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
+ * Query objects returned from ``PageQuerySet.type_q`` can now be merged with ``|`` (Brady Moe)
+
 
 Upgrade considerations
 ======================
diff --git a/wagtail/core/query.py b/wagtail/core/query.py
index 6e984cb01b..add03e9e1a 100644
--- a/wagtail/core/query.py
+++ b/wagtail/core/query.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class PageQuerySet(SearchableQuerySetMixin, TreeQuerySet):
             if issubclass(model, klass)
         ]).values()
 
-        return Q(content_type__in=content_types)
+        return Q(content_type__in=list(content_types))
 
     def type(self, model):
         """
diff --git a/wagtail/core/tests/test_page_queryset.py b/wagtail/core/tests/test_page_queryset.py
index c4f92e87ad..019fc34404 100644
--- a/wagtail/core/tests/test_page_queryset.py
+++ b/wagtail/core/tests/test_page_queryset.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
+from django.db.models import Q
 from django.test import TestCase
 
 from wagtail.core.models import Page, PageViewRestriction, Site
@@ -397,6 +398,14 @@ class TestPageQuerySet(TestCase):
         # Check that the event is in the results
         self.assertTrue(pages.filter(id=event.id).exists())
 
+    def test_merge_queries(self):
+        type_q = Page.objects.type_q(EventPage)
+        query = Q()
+
+        query |= type_q
+
+        self.assertTrue(Page.objects.filter(query).exists())
+
 
 class TestPageQueryInSite(TestCase):
     fixtures = ['test.json']