Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv Collectns
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CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (CLGA)
The world's largt pennt rource for those who strive for a future world where lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are accepted, valued, and celebrated. * gay lesbian archives toronto *
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.
CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV
Sce 1973, The ArQuiv (formerly the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv) has been acquirg and prervg material documentg LGBTQ+ history. The ArQuiv’s mandate is to acquire, prerve, anize, and provi public accs to rmatn and materials any medium, by and about LGBTQ+ people, primarily produced or ncerng Canada. * gay lesbian archives toronto *
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.
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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.
Hist/B NoteThe Canadian Gay Archiv grew out of the fil of The Body Polic, a natnal gay liberatn journal found Toronto 1971.