Topics: Sexual diversity rights
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claiming our rights as a transgender family
By Rowan Jetté Knox
Names and pronouns may change but love stays constant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
