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Keeping Our Stories Alive

The ArQuives was established to aid in the recovery and preservation of our histories. Its mandate is to: Acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBTQ2+ people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada; and Maintain a research library, international research files, and an international collection of queer and trans periodicals.

The ArQuives is the largest independent LGBTQ2+ Archives in the world and since 1973 the only LGBTQ2+ archives in Canada with a national scope, read further about our history and mission.

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Support Canada’s largest lgbtq2+ archives


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Education Resources

Our Education Resources were developed and crafted to support educators in incorporating queer and trans perspectives into Grade 9-12 English and History curricula.

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ArQuives Collection

Our Collection can be searched online. Search by keyword, collection, organization, person, media, artifact type, among other options.

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Our Exhibits

Our current and past Exhibitions are listed on our programming page here. Check out our online Digital Exhibitions anytime.

What’s New

Liberation on the Dance Floor: Interview with Craig Jennex

Communications volunteer, Mailey, interviewed Craig Jennex about the newest exhibit at The ArQuives: Liberation on the Dance Floor. Mailey: Hi Craig, I am really excited for our digital exchange on Liberation on the Dance Floor: [...]

Gendertrash from Hell: Queer Connection and Exposure

In the early 1990s Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay formed a publishing company called genderpress. Between 1993 and 1995 they produced four zines entitled Gendertrash from hell. The first issue of Gendertrash includes a [...]

Melissa Levin & Lesbian Helpers at The ArQuives

Volunteer Em Barton visits The ArQuives to look through fonds of the late artist, educator and advocate, Melissa Levin, before our archivists begin to process them. I was greeted by one of our wonderful archivist [...]

Our Partners

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