How a digital archive is preserving Canada’s history of LGBTQ+ activism

By Pascale Dangoisse, Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Data Lab, University of Ottawa and Toronto Metropolitan University, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Constance Crompton, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Michelle Schwartz, Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project uses a new online database to record the events, places, people, organizations and publications that have formed Canada’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.

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