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The Museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

The Museum is accessible to all

Events

Beyond the Rainbow Storytime 2025

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Cost: Free event; registration appreciated

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation, Level 3

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A table with a black tablecloth and colourful books relating to 2SLGBTQI+

Beyond the Rainbow Brunch

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Cost: SOLD OUT

Location: Boreal Bistro, Level 1

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A drag performer with purple hair and a silver and black dress speaks in front of a group having brunch.

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Cost: Free event; registration required

Location: The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, and Bonnie & John Buhler Hall Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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A group of people march down a city street. At the front of the group, on the left side of the image, two people hold a sign over their heads that reads “Love thy neighbour.” Slightly behind them is a sign that reads “Many of u are gay too!”

Exhibitions

Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge

January 31, 2025 to early 2026

From the 1950s to the 1990s, the Government of Canada systematically investigated, harassed and fired 2SLGBTQI+ members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and the federal public service destroying careers, ruining lives and inflicting psychological damage on the community.

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A large group of protestors march through a city while two uniformed RCMP officers keep watch. In this black-and-white image, the protestors' signs and banners call for an end to discriminatory practices against members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

Stories

She said | He said

By Leslie Vryenhoek, editor

Performing in drag is an old art form that is experiencing a new mainstream popularity. But in recent years, drag has also become a lightning rod for those who oppose 2SLGBTQI+ rights and expression. Drag storytime for children, in particular, has drawn ire from protestors.

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A drag queen in heavy makeup and a wig of long tiny braids holds up a children’s book to show an audience. The backdrop behind her is a pastel rainbow.

Persecution of queer Canadian soldiers in wartime

By Sarah Worthman

Modern anti‐2SLGBTQI+ hate echoes the myths and prejudices of the past, threatening to erase queer soldiers’ stories again.

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A man stands in dark shadows in a stark stone cell, gazing upward at bright sunlight streaming in through a barred window.

What Is Two‐Spirit? Part One: Origins

By Scott de Groot

Discover the history and meaning of Two‐Spirit. The term speaks to community self‐determination, rejects colonial gender norms and celebrates Indigenous sexual and gender diversity.

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A poster featuring large artwork depicting two faces in dramatic colours and patterns, with background imagery including hands, standing figures and geometric shapes. A large title at the top reads “The 10th Annual International Two Spirit Gathering” and text at the bottom reads “August 27-31, 1997. Onamia, Minnesota.”

Claiming our rights as a transgender family

By Rowan Jetté Knox

Names and pronouns may change but love stays constant.

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A smiling family of six in a living room.

Voices of women and girls enslaved in war

By Isabelle Masson

Grace and Evelyn were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda when they were just girls. They managed to find their way back to freedom but have faced many new struggles since they returned home.

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A woman is holding a baby, while four men in army fatigues stand beside and behind her. They are all standing in front of a forest, posed for the camera.

Rohingya women call for justice

By Paula Kelly

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A group of Rohingya women and men carry young children and belongings as they walk in a line over an earthen dike over a stretch of water.

Five women all Canadians should know

By Matthew McRae

The year 2016 marks a century since women in Canada first got the right to vote and so it seems like a fine time to celebrate the achievements of Canadian women.

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Six red dresses are suspended in air on hangers in front of a backdrop. The backdrop features an image of a birch wood forest with more red dresses hanging in it.

Exploring women’s rights and gender equality

By Chloe Rew

If I were alive in Canada before 1929, I would not have been considered a person. “Persons” under the British North America Act referred only to men.

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Resource guides

The LGBT Purge

We invite you to explore this resource guide as a starting point to learning more about the LGBT Purge, a decades‐long systemic targeting of LGBT members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and the federal public service.

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A large group of people dressed in T-shirts and seventies-style flared pants, stand together holding signs with messages such as “Out of the Closet,” “Gay is Good” and “Repeal Anti-Gay Laws.”

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