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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


Support Canada’s largest lgbtq2+ archives


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

Intern Reflections

My name is Ghost Mitchell, and I am a nonbinary undergraduate student in my third year of university courses at The University of Toronto. I am a double major in both Drama and Sexual Diversity [...]

2024 Annual General Meeting

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives invites you to the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Monday, May 26, 2025, at 6:00PM EST via Zoom. Any member of the public is invited to attend. Members will be [...]

Community Archiving Workshop with FAHSC

As a community archivist, how else can one learn and gain more archival experience? Project Archivist, Stefanie Martin, found out it was by being in and doing archival work for the community! In August as [...]

Programming

The ArQuives House Tour – November 11, 2025

November 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Gendertrash from Hell launch

November 12 @ 6:45 pm - 11:00 pm

Juxtaposition Poetry Collective Writing Circle

November 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Our Partners

Click any of our partners’ logos below to visit their respective websites.

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