Browse Exhibits (8 total)
The Queer Home: Exploring Queer Architecture, Domesticity, and Gathering in Toronto
This exhibit encompasses excerpts from a summer's-worth of research, query, and writing by intern and architecture student, Henry Ding. Henry's exhibit delves into the relationship between queerness and architecture and their interconnection to make a queer home.
Research, writing, and graphic design by Henry Ding. The full publication of "The Queer Home" is available at the end of the exhibit.
Digital exhibit mounted and curated by Madeleine Vein.
Anthony Mohamed Collection
Anthony Mohamed is a gay, South Asian, Caribbean, Canadian activist and equity worker in Toronto. He has been a pivotal figure in various advocacy groups and organizations spanning decades. The following collection, generously donated by Anthony himself, provides a glimpse into his life, activism, and work, highlighting many important moments of AIDS organizing in Toronto, and the experience of being a queer person of colour.
Digital exhibit compiled and created by Caitlin Monteiro
Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (1973 - Present)
Since 1973, MCC Toronto has been helping shape Canadian values of inclusion, diversity, and equality. A place of worship and a place of action, MCC Toronto is a vibrant and progressive church rooted in the Christian tradition and the 2SLGBTQ+ community that is open and welcoming to everyone, and a Human Rights Centre that is fiercely committed to social justice.
https://www.mcctoronto.com/about-us/
The MCC Toronto fonds at The ArQuives was processed and made available to researchers at The ArQuives by Project Archivist Stefanie Martin. This digital exhibit was created in collaboration with Stefanie Martin and MCC Toronto, and mounted by Andrew Wiebe.
This exhibit was on display in person at 115 Simpson Avenue from October 2023 to January 2024 for MCC Toronto community members and the public in celebration of their 50th anniversary.
Salaam
Salaam Canada: An Account of LGBTQ+ Muslims Living & Communing in Canada
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This oral history and research project originated out of a partnership between Salaam Canada and The ArQuives to document and celebrate Salaam Canada for their 30th Anniversary year.
Written and researched by Khadijah Kanji with contributions by Farzana Doctor, Junaid Jahangir, El-Farouk Khaki, Lali Mohamed, Imtiaz Popat (also known as Moomtaz Khatoon) & Rahim Thawer.
Digital exhibit compiled and created by Lo Humeniuk.
Johnny Abush and the Twice Blessed Collection
Johnny Abush (1952-2000) was an active member of the Queer Jewish community in Toronto. He founded the Jewish GLBT Archives, known as Twice Blessed, as well as the Queer Jewish Culture Committee.
The ArQuives houses many materials regarding his activism and involvement within his community, while his vast archive was donated to ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in California, who have published a finding aid of the materials in the collection here.
Click on the links to the right of the page for more information on various aspects of Johnny’s life and queer Jewish communities in Toronto during his lifetime, and click on images to enlarge.
Pride and Remembrance Run: The Early Years
The Pride and Remembrance Run was founded in 1996 as an annual fundraising event dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community, with a specific focus on the historical and ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS in the community. This exhibition contains archival photographs, videos, textual records, news articles, t-shirts, posters, and oral histories documenting the history of the Pride and Remembrance Run.
Mapping Foolscap: Gay Oral Histories, 1981-1987
LGBTQ2+ Oral Histories
Oral histories have been a popular way to preserve the lives and testimonies of marginalized subjects who have often been denied access to the historical record. This exhibit showcases a small selection of oral histories and audiovisual materials relating to LGBTQ2+ lives in Canada from The ArQuives' collection.
Some of the cassette tapes have been digitized by the LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory in order to preserve them and make them available online. Several of the other oral history interviews have been conducted by The ArQuives as outreach projects and in order to continue collecting important histories from our community.