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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 [...]
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John Kozachenko - Gay/AIDS Activist (Comments)
John Kozachenko - Gay/AIDS Activist (Part A)
John Kozachenko describes his family roots, his coming out process and his early attractions to political protest, including joining political protests in Toronto and Ottawa attractions to the collective members of the Glad Day Bookstore. John also describes attending the first Radical Faerie Gathering in Benson, Arizona called [...]
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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 [...]
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CREATING AN OLDER LESBIAN PRESENCE IN THE PRIDE PARADE-1995 TO NOW (Comments)
When I joined the Mob ( Menopausal Old Bitches), in 1995, it was a vibrant, exciting group of about 40, 50 , 60 lesbians. We met every three months at someone’s house.We talked in a circle before dinner,and netwroked. Many a woman found her truer love at a MOB dinner.At one point, we had “pod [...]
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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 [...]
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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).
