The travelling exhibit from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Love in a Dangerous Time, has now arrived in Campbell River. This exhibit details the unfair dismissal of LGBTQ members from Canada’s civil service, RCMP and armed forces between the 1950s and the 1990s. It will be set up in the library until February 20th.
Seating in the library has been adjusted to accommodate the exhibit. Come check it out!
From the Campbell River Mirror:
An exhibit is travelling through Vancouver Island libraries that details the unfair dismissal of LGBTQ members from Canada’s civil service, RCMP and armed forces between the 1950s and the 1990s.
On loan from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the pop-up exhibit titled ‘Love in a Dangerous Time’ includes several boards detailing the stories of Canadians impacted by what has become known as the ‘LGBTQ Purge,’ during which tens of thousands of people were investigated as part of a policy of demoting and firing LGBTQ workers.
Jason Kuffler, Vancouver Island Regional Library’s events and promotions officer, told the News Bulletin that this is the second exhibit from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights that VIRL has had the opportunity to host, following a replica of the Indigenous Witness Blanket in 2021.
“That sort of created a partnership or relationship between the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and the Vancouver Island Regional Library and they knew we could handle it – the logistics and so forth,” Kuffler said.
The exhibit will be at the Nanaimo Harbourfront branch until Wednesday, Jan. 15. From Jan. 16 to Feb. 20 it will be in Campbell River, and from Feb. 21 to March 28 it will be shown at the Cowichan library. Kuffler said VIRL is also planning a virtual presentation with survivors before the exhibit finishes its tour of the Island. Another version of the piece is set to launch at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this month.
