August 2019

10 Aug, 2019

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We thank André Chénard, Claude Gosselin, Pierre Landy, Charles Lapointe, Gilles Legault and Pierre Pilotte, as well as Fonds Diversité sexuelle-Laurent McCutcheon, Québecor,  the estate of Frank W. Remiggi, and Fierté Montréal.  It is thanks to their generosity that the exhibition on Histoires des communautés LGBTQ2S+ du Québec could be produced.

This show was launched at the Cinéma du Parc on August 1 2019 and will end on September 22.  In the evening of August 14, we invite you to attend a benefit lecture and screen showing held in coordination with the exhibition.  Louis Godbout will address the negative point of view that “viril” gay men sometime hold towards their less traditionally masculine brothers, and this lecture will be followed by the documentary GUILDA – Elle est bien dans ma peau, about Québec’s most famous female impersonator.

We thank all our donors who have made this possible.

Credit: Simone Beaudry-Pilotte

07 Aug, 2019

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69 POSITIONS:

PORTER TÉMOIGNAGE / OUR VANISHING

MAI,3680 rue Jeanne-Mance, Montréal (PQ) H2X 2K5

August 8-24 2019

In 1969, the crime of sodomy was removed from Canada’s Criminal Code, along with laws governing birth control, gun control and gambling. If only two people enjoyed it in private, anal sex, which had previously carried a 14-year prison sentence upon conviction, was no longer a criminal matter.

In the new legal landscape, divisions of appropriate sexual expression hardened around notions of public and private space. The government had opened the bedroom door to assimilation and homonormativity for some of the populace. Nevertheless, our 2LGBTQ communities’ rich collective expressions have demonstrated brilliant resistance to Canada’s hollow narratives of progress and assimilation.

Examining queer life on the 50th anniversary of 1969, this lucid, critical, and playful exhibition features archival works from the collections of VIVO Media Arts, Vidéographe, les Archives gaies du Québec, the ArQuives, and ARTEXTE, alongside works by collectives such as the Front de Libération Homosexuelle and works that flutter out of the archive by contemporary artists Hazel Meyer, David Widgington and Projet Hybris.

Curated by Jamie Ross

Facebook Event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/494781777944508/

Opening: Thursday August 8, 6-9pm

Curator’s tour: Saturday August 10th, 2-3pm