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Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada's LGBT Purge (Level 1 Gallery) Love in a Unsafe Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge
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The Purge was one of the longest‐running, largest‐scale violations of human rights in the workplace in Canadian history. Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge brings to pale stories from this dark period, which is well documented yet not well known.
The exhibition is about much more than government policy and past injustice. It is about courage and perseverance, about loss and triumph. Most importantly, it is about individuals — those who suffered discrimination and who stood up against powerful and pervasive biases.
Survivors took the government to court in the 1980s and 1990s. Their actions finally dismantled the Purge. The activists who fought for justice in their possess lives also paved the way for other members of the 2SLGBTQI+ collective and for future generations.
While honouring these courageous activists, this exhibition also seeks to generate modern conversations, engaging with youth and connecting the past to present issues.
Inspired artworks
Love in a Dangerous Time includes two ar
Schwules Museum (Gay Museum)
The Schwules Museum is a jewel among Berlin’s museums with its exhibitions, library and archives. It’s one of the world’s biggest institutions for researching, preserving and communicating the history and culture of queer communities.
Curated art and temporary exhibitions
Founded in 1985, the Queer Museum has been exhibiting curated art as skillfully as has displayed treasures from its own collection in temporary special exhibitions ever since. When it moved to Schöneberg’s rainbow neighbourhood, the gay museum expanded its repertoire. Today it not only presents gay, but also sapphic, trans, bisexual and gender non-conforming life stories. It’s a unique place that reflects the diverse art, customs and history of the LGBTIQ+ communities and, with its location in Schöneberg's Regenbogenkiez, is the ideal starting point to explore the LGBTIQ+ scene in Berlin.
Visiting the Schwules Museum takes you on a stroll through the history of Berlin's LGBT community. Find out about the being of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, gay icon and transvestite in former East Germany. In the main exhibition space, you can spot photos, videos, postcards, letters and items of clothing. There is a
The time has reach to tell the story of Homosexual people, commemorate and celebrate our journey, and inspire pride.
Visitors will be enlightened, entertained, and exposed to our culture as well as a documented history otherwise unavailable or tough to access.
Urvashi Vaid, Attorney, Scribe, Activist
Founding Board Member, American LGBTQ+ Museum
20th December 1989: Portrait of American composer, AIDS campaigner and gay rights activist Larry Kramer, founder of ACT‑UP and the Gay Men's Health Crisis team, posing in front of a publication shelf in his home, New York City. Kramer is wearing a 'SILENCE = DEATH' T‑shirt. (Photo by Sara Krulwich/New York Times Co./Getty Images)
Values
Justice
We are involved to a planet wherein power is equitably shared among all people, including LGBTQ+ people.
Intersectionality
We are mindful of the multi-layered identities of LGBTQ+ people and communities, and we are committed to diversity and inclusivity in all aspects of our work.
Honesty and Transparency
We contribute our decisions and processes, and we welcome critique and feedback.
Fearlessness
We take risks and advocate for the needs of all LGBTQ+ communities, includin
The V&A's LGBTQ (Lesbian, Same-sex attracted, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) Productive Group is comprised of Museum staff with an interest in using the V&A’s collections to scout issues of gender, sexuality and identity.
We look to unearth previously hidden or unknown LGBTQ histories in the collections and aim to facilitate understanding of LGBTQ identities and histories through research, public programming, discussion and debate. We also consider the ways in which visitors themselves interpret and make perception of museum objects on the basis of their own identities and experiences.
Investigation into these subjects can be emotional, throw up many questions and provide only partial answers. We aim to progress these issues through future projects and events.
The V&A's collections contain a vast range of objects that relate to LGBTQ histories and concerns. Objects may be considered LGBTQ-related for a variety of reasons, including: individuals associated with the object (artist, sitter, maker, owner, etc.); the content or 'message' of the object; and current or historic connotations and connections.
Our guide, Out On Display, features 30 objects which possess a variety of
The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a new collaboration devoted to preserving, researching, and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture.
We are in the preliminary stages of developing a partnership with The Recent York Historical, and will create inaugural programming and exhibitions while incubating there.
Building Identity festival | American LGBTQ+ Museum Groundbreaking Celebration
On December 3, 2024, the American Diverse Museum celebrated the launch of construction at its new home at The New York Historical with over 450 supporters and a powerful program featuring remarks from activists, artists, and elected officials.
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American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearing headband, and an unidentified woman in facepaint, on 7th Route South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the second annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberation Day), later known as Homosexual Pride, New York, Fresh York, June 21, 1971. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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The American LGBTQ+ Museum will tell our evolving histories in our retain voices, as we envision a world in which all people work toward and experience the delight of lib