Contest: Win Tickets to See Dave Deveau’s Nelly Boy (Comments)

Hallowe’en, the Queer High Holiday, is upon us! Here’s your chance to tell us about a favourite–or not so favourite–queer Hallowe’en memory. Or, you can write about what Hallowe’en means to you. Your post can be as short–or as long–as you want it to be.
Everyone who responds by posting a comment in reply to this post [...]

Harry Grunsky - Electoral Politics Gay Activist (Comments)

In “Harry Grunsky - Electoral Politics Gay Activist (Part A)”, Harry Grunsky discusses his involvement as a gay activist working within the BC-NDP and Vancouver civic party - COPE (Core Of Progressive Electors).  He describes how he and Jim Green worked together to nominate Sue Harris to the COPE Vancouver Parks Board slate.  She went [...]

Photos from Joys on the Journey (Comments)

1,340 Polaroid’s - sorted, seriesed, and tissued. Allowing the rows to angle and be flipped through, I built columns in the 18″X30″ archival box around A frames that can be removed .
Feels great and like I have somehow increased the value of the collection simply by sorting and boxing it properly.
Included in this collection are the [...]

This Joke’s On Me! (Comments)

The year was 1972; I was a teenager in Germany.

By that time I had already known for a number of years that I was queer. I did not act on it, however, because there were no role models, no examples around me, or any hints in my every day life that would have suggested [...]

The NuWest Steambath: decentralizing queer geographies (Comments)

In 2007, I was  granted the First Out: Out On Screen Scholarship. With the generous resources and training I was provided with, I made a documentary about a bath house that operatd in New Westminster from the mid 1970’s to the early 1990’s.
This documentary is an attempt to document and celebrate queer spaces  outside of [...]

West End Sex Work History Project, 1975-1985 (Comments)

The West End Sex Work History Project documents the history of the forced expulsion of sex workers, many of whom were trans women, from Vancouver’s West End in 1975-1985.
gOn their website you read more about the history of sex work in the west end, view a map and timeline, and a photo gallery (currently under construction).