Sexual and Gender Minorities

Known as the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives until 2019, the ArQuives is now publicly searchable online. These collections include a wide variety of material, such as "the world's largest collection of LGBTQ+ periodicals," personal papers, organizational records, photographs, and posters, with items dating back to the 1800s.

Learn about the background and development of LGBT rights in Canada. There are images and videos embedded in this article.

Explore this timeline of important events related to the LGBTQ2S community in Canada.

An encyclopedia of queer people, events, and queer culture

Learn about Jim Egan and his landmark victory to gain rights for the LGBT community.

Explore this timeline of Canadian events in the 1970s. Learn about the climate of LGBT rights during that decade.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) religious movements around the world.

These archives are hosted by the University of Manitoba Libraries. Browse through their collection of articles and images.

Learn about the Stonewall Inn, the 1969 uprising that occurred there and the legacy of those events.

This library at Western University collects and provides public access to materials by and about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer community (LGBTQ).

The Queer Digital History Project is "an ongoing effort to document pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online." The website is maintained by Avery Dame-Griff, who recognized that as our technological world evolved, many of the "ad-hoc spaces" created by and for the LGBTQ community became under-recognized.

Before running for public office, Harvey Milk had already been many things: naval officer, high school teacher, bit-part actor and wandering hippie. This video describes the tenacity and courage of California's first openly gay public official.

Housed at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, the archive has special links on the left side of the page to people and organizations featured in their collection

This 7-minute video describes how a gay bar raid started an uprising and LGBTQ2 Pride.