AGQ-F0022

Fonds Luc Caron. – 1986-[1995]. – 26 cm of textual records.

 

 

Biographical sketch: :

 

Luc Caron was born on January 13, 1947 in Mercier (formerly Sainte-Philomène), on a market-garden farm. A poet, author and lover of literature and cinema, Luc Caron has worked in the film industry. Among other things, he worked with the Festival du nouveau cinéma, co-wrote Léa Pool’s film Strass Café, and starred in François Girard’s film Cargo. He is said to have divided his time between Montreal, summer farm work with his mother and sister, and travel, notably to Barcelona in 1986 and Berlin in 1990.

 

Luc Caron was a founding member of the Brigade Rose, the organization behind Montreal’s first gay pride parade in 1979. He died of AIDS in 1995.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The fonds bears witness to the life and activities of a gay man in Quebec in the 1980s and 1990s: travels, encounters, dreams, friendships. The nature of the diaries and the author’s prose provide a rich portrait of his daily life, as well as an intimate glimpse into his desires and fears. In particular, the fonds bears witness to Montreal’s gay sauna culture, as well as to the suffering and anxieties associated with HIV.

 

The fonds contains personal diaries and writings in the form of typescripts and albums. Items S1/P10 and S1/P11, and S2/P1 are made up of published books: Indian Miniatures, a collection of works by Paul Klee, and a collection of works by Pierre et Gilles, respectively.

 

 

The fonds contains the following series:

 

  • AGQ-F0022/S1. Personal diaries
  • AGQ-F0022/S2. Works
  • AGQ-F0022/S3. Correspondence
  • AGQ-F0022/S4. Audio

 

 

Notes:

 

Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ on July 6, 2017 and September 13, 2023 by Richard Lefebvre (acquisitions 2017-013 and 2023-037).

 

Language: The documents are in French.

 

Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.

 

Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described: Fonds AGQ-F0127 John Banks and fonds AGQ-F0050 Armand Monroe contain documents relating to Luc Caron.

 

 

 

 

 

            Dernière modification : 2024-11-12