The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions

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Fonds 1526, File 6, Item 26 - TWP.jpg
Colour image of the building that hosted the Toronto Workshop Productions, an alternative and experimental theatre troupe founded in 1959, before it became the home of Buddies in Bad Times. The building is a former car showroom and one of the few…

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Black and red poster for the fourteenth annual Rhubarb! Festival at Buddies in Bad Times.

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Image of the exterior of Buddies in Bad Times.

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Newspaper clipping discussing the struggles Glad Day faced with Canada Customs at the border and advocating against censorship of 2SLGBTQIA+ materials.

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Pink poster for a dance party titled "Soap: A Remembrance of the 1981 Bath Raids." Poster depicts pigs in a barrel covered in soap suds.

The front of a Maggie's/PSSP safe sex brochure depicting a mustachioed man and a woman in a headband. The text reads: "Safer Sex. Make It Your Business."
Excerpts from a pamphlet ca. 1980s distributed by Maggie's and CORP

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A typed single sheet of paper with notes about what Maggie's planned to prioritize in the upcoming year.

The cover of a Maggie's pamphlet. The paper is blue and reads "If the cops want to talk to you..."; in the left-hand side, there is an illustration of a police officer. On the right, the Sex Worker's Action Project logo (a lipstick kiss mark).
promotional and educational pamphlets on safe sex

The cover of the "Happy Transsexual Hooker." On the cover, characters Tony and Sasha look at one another against a city backdrop. Text under the title reads: "a SEXY resource guide for transsexual and transgendered [sic] Sex Workers. Tony is hot for Sasha... Sasha is super-hot for Tony! Are they horny or what? Will they fall in love? Are they gonna go all the way? Read and find out!"
Excerpts from The Happy Transsexual Hooker

Maggie's logo (a streetlamp with Maggie's written beside it in a squiggly font)
Excerpts from the Maggie's 1992-93 newsletter
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