BC Gay and Lesbian Archives to Host Educational Pride Event in Partnership with City of Vancouver Archives
The BCGLA and City of Vancouver Archives are gearing up to help educate and inform the next generation on why their history is important now more than ever this June
Vancouver, B.C. – April 10, 2024
Jane Doe, Media Relations and Head of Communications for the City of Vancouver Archives, Vancouver, BC archives@vancouver.ca
ABOUT BC GAY AND LESBIAN ARCHIVES
- maintained by its founder, Ron Dutton, until its donation in 2018
- holds over 750,000 item dating from the present day back to the 1700s
- fonds include the only remaining copies of some historic periodicals, advertising posters and flyers, and ‘zines from the 1970s to 1990s
- imperative to AIDS Vancouver’s research on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its impact on Vancouver’s LGBT2QIA+ community
ABOUT CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES
- founded in the early 1930s by Vancouver’s first city archivist, J. S. Matthews
- housed in the first building in Canada to be built specifically as a city archive
COMMUNITY PRIDE
- Vancouver boasts the largest LGBT2QIA+ community in Western Canada
- Pride Week takes place in Vancouver from the last week of July into the first week of August
- attracts over 100,000 attendees for the annual Pride parade in 2023
DIGITIZATION
- preserves copies of original media that may otherwise degrade with time
- difficult to achieve as a single archivist, but through the City of Vancouver Archives Ron Dutton has seen his collection digitized