The ArQuives: Preserving Canada’s LGBTQ2S+ Heritage (Online)

QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library would like to invite you to a free, virtual presentation by The ArQuives, one of the largest LGBTQ2+ archives in the world and the only archive in Canada with a mandate to collect at a national level. This event introduces the public to the history of the organization and its place in Canada’s LGBTQ2S+ history, the importance of an archive, and its amazing collections and projects. Everyone is welcome and the event is delivered via Zoom. Registration is required.

🗓Thursday October 27 2022, 7PM-8.30PM  

📍Online (Zoom) 

🌐English with French interpretation.

Free event. Register on Zoom by Wednesday October 26.

🔎Accessibility: English-to-French live interpretation. Automatic captioning is available. 

The ArQuives is one of the largest LGBTQ2+ archives in the world and the only archive in Canada with a mandate to collect at a national level. Founded out of The Body Politic newspaper collection in 1973, its mandate is to safeguard the LGBTQ2+ history of Canada. The archives formally incorporated in 1980 and following a legal challenge was granted charitable status in 1981. Today, The ArQuives preserves a wide range of material including personal and organizational papers, books, monographs, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, periodicals, artifacts (like buttons, board games, t-shirts, and banners), and other reference material.

📍Address: 34 Isabella St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1N1 

Hours of operation: Open by appointment only (due to COVID-19)

Check them out at: @thearquives and arquives.ca.