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CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (CLGA)
Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv (CLGA). Webse Addrs: The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv (CLGA) is the largt pennt LGBTQ+ archiv the world, wh particular emphasis on Canadian ntent.
Rerds cludg current exhibs, artifacts, artwork, d/sound rerdgs, movg imag, Natnal Portra Collectn, Lbian and Gay Perdils, newspapers, posters, photographs and vertil fil. The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv (CLGA) ho notable artwork llectns cludg the works of Ronald McRae, a Toronto illtrator and stume signer whose works dat back to the 1920s. Includ the rerds are media terviews and rerd special events, most notably reactns om the flight of drag queens along Toronto’s Yonge Street, mic llectns produced by Olivia Rerds wh emphasis on the rise of openly gay punk, new wave and other alternative groups and 75 cubic feet of material om the Comg Out Show (1970s-1986) of more than 1, 000 ssett and 500-reel-to-reel tap.
The CLGA also ntas movg imag holdgs of more than 600 ems that clu footage om lbian and gay events var muni cludg the Gay Mardi Gras Sydney, Atralia, Vanuver's Gay Gam and Lbian and Gay Pri celebratns.
CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV
Also notable is the CLGA’s photograph llectn of over 4500 imag (1920-) cludg imag om The Body Polic, lbian and gay activists, artists, thors, and celebri, other members of lbian and gay muni Toronto, Halifax, Montreal, Saskatoon, and Vanuver durg the 1970s and early 1980s, cultural and polil events, monstratns and nferenc, theatril productns, and plac of muny tert cludg bars, rtrants, and clubs. The CLGA’s poster llectn also ntas over 1000 posters related to the Canadian gay liberatn movement and AIDS tn.
Gregg worked closely wh the Gay and Lbian Task Force of the Amerin Library Associatn and librarians and archivists om around the globe velopg The Internatnal Ths of Gay and Lbian Inx Terms that would tablish bt practic for the scriptn of LGBTQ materials llectns. Durg this time, the Canadian Gay Archiv (now the Arquiv) published a manual for velopg llectns tled Organizg an Archiv: The Canadian Gay Archiv Experience. Gerber/Hart’s October of 1985 Newsletter announced the formatn of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Archiv and Librari (IALGAL) formed at the Internatnal Gay and Lbian History Conference at the Universy of Toronto earlier that year.
The ONE LGBTQ Rearch Fellowship supported a trip to the wt ast that allowed me to vis the extensive llectns of ONE Archiv at the USC Librari, and to ordate the trip wh the Commtee on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr History’s first Queer History Conference and a rearch vis to the GLBT Historil Society San Francis. The llectns of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv, and the Amerin Library Associatn Task Force and Social Rponsibili Round Table Collectns helped to fill the gaps om Gregg’s papers, but the IALGAL remaed an elive topic. Bette as, “The Gay Archival Impulse: The Foundg of the Gerber/Hart Library and Archiv Chigo, ” Vol.