The ArQuives is pleased to partner with the Yorkville Branch of the Toronto Public Library to present the exhibit Pride and Prejudice: Three Decades of LGBT Community Organizing. The exhibit displays reproduced material from The ArQuives that highlights the people, events and publications that shaped Toronto’s queer community from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Exhibit runs from: Wed May 01, 2013 – Fri May 31, 2013 at Yorkville Branch. 22 Yorkville Ave., Toronto, ON M4W 1L4 416-393-7660. Also of interest, on May 22 at Yorkville branch – “Pansy Boys and Hell Witches”: Queer Visibility in Early-20th-Century Toronto 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. In this illustrated talk, Queen’s historian Steven Maynard looks at the emergence of modern gay and lesbian identities in Toronto during the 1920s and ’30s. Pride and Prejudice, History and Memory is a series of talks about the past and the present and what it means to be gay or lesbian. For information: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT127881&R=EVT127881