The major exhibition about the LGBT Purge will open at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg at the end of January.  We are thrilled to see this come to life and hope you all have a chance to view it during its duration through 2025.

The LGBT Purge Fund is heartened that the exhibition will help tell our story to new audiences.  We are proud to have paid for the exhibition through the class action lawsuit, as this history needs to be told and more widely known.

Check the CMHR’s website for details.

Since 2019, we’ve been working with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on a number of exhibitions related to the LGBT Purge. This includes a travelling exhibition, which will move around Canada in the years to come to share our stories. We are delighted to announce that this exhibition launched in Calgary at the end of August 2024!

On August 26th, the exhibition – entitled “Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge” – opened to the public in the soaring atrium of the Calgary Public Library. The opening included a free evening event with a panel of Purge Survivors in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Scott de Groot. In particular, the audience heard from Survivors Nancy Miller and Wayne Davis, who also sits on our Board. It was a moving evening and a great to way to kick off a series of launch events, each with opportunities to hear directly from survivors and to share the story of the LGBT Purge across Canada.

The exhibition will be open until September 20th in the Shaikh Family Welcome Gallery. If you’re in Calgary, be sure to check it out and stay tuned to our social media pages for details of future locations.

Of course, the LGBT Purge niche is also opening in the Canadian Journeys Gallery at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Our major exhibition will open there early next year.