AGQ-F0040

Fonds Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. – 21 March 1988-1990. – 4 cm of textual records.

 

 

Administrative history:

 

Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec (DGLQ) is a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting LGBTQ+ culture through the arts and artists. Since the year after it was founded in 1987, the DGLQ has produced image+nation, an annual Montreal film festival of international LGBTQ+ films whose mandate is to explore the diversity of LGBTQ+ lives through queer narratives and share them with a wide audience.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The fonds records correspondence, events and traces of the organization between 1989 and 1990, in its early years.

 

The fonds contains archives relating to the organization, such as paper office material, promotional material, programs, correspondence, guides, letters of support, a catalogue of audiovisual festivals in Europe and notes.

 

 

The fonds contains the following files:

 

  • AGQ-F0040/D1. Diffusion du cinéma et de la vidéo gais et lesbiens
  • AGQ-F0040/D2. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Letterhead
  • AGQ-F0040/D3. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Graphic production
  • AGQ-F0040/D4. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Promotional material
  • AGQ-F0040/D5. Image&Nation. Festival program 1989
  • AGQ-F0040/D6. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Correspondence received
  • AGQ-F0040/D7. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Correspondence received concerning the event Le documentaire se fête.
  • AGQ-F0040/D8. Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec. Correspondence received and notes
  • AGQ-F0040/D9. Centre communautaire des gais et lesbiennes de Montréal. Notice of General Meetings
  • AGQ-F0040/D10. Agenda des Festivals Audiovisuels en Europe [and in Québec]

 

 

Notes:

 

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

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the QGAs on 21 July 1993 by Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec (acquisition 1993-011).

 

Language: The documents are in French and English.

 

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

 

Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described: Image + Nation Guides

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Benevity causes portal. “Diffusions gaies et lesbiennes du Québec”. Online [consulted on 21 November 2024].

 

Herland, Karen. “Expression of Frustration”. Montreal Mirror Vol.7, n°2, 20 June 1991, p.17.

 

Hogan, Mél. “21 Years of Image & Nation: Legitimizing the Gaze”. Nouvelles «vues» sur le cinéma québécois, n°10, Winter 2008-2009. Online.

 

Editorial team. “Quelques moments marquants pour nos communautés”. Fugues, 30 March 2024. Online [consulted on 21 November 2024].

 

Legal entity registered with the Quebec Enterprise Register.

 

Website: https://www.image-nation.org/fr/ [consulted on 21 November 2024].

 

 

 

 

 

            Last modification : 2025-02-24