Sept 06, Pennywise – Kootenay Lake

Exploring gender, sex,
and the history of Pride
Photo: Jamie Srigley
There are few things in this world that
evoke the sense of love, happiness and solidarity
as a well-executed Pride
parade. The rainbow flags, the
glitter, the costumes, the dancing
- an unstoppable force, topping
off a whirlwind weekend of events
during Nelson!s Pride Weekend,
which has been organized by the
Kootenay queer community for
over 20 years.
Queer Kootenays: We Love a
Parade, the latest exhibition at
Touchstones Nelson Museum,
ex- plores the history of the
LGBTQ+2S movement in the
Kootenays since the late 1960s.
The ex- hibition is community
curated, featuring stories, photographs,
videos, costumes, and
other in- formation from the
community, supported with
archival photographs from the
Shawn Lamb Archives. Together,
the items tell a familiar tale; one
where organizers and supporters
have been met with fear and
anger as often as they were welcomed
with open arms.
The exhibition is rooted by a
wall-mounted timeline, which
was researched by two stellar university
students, and informed by
the community. “The timeline is
a device that lets us see history at
a glance, from international to community
events which illustrate inclusion, intolerance,
celebration and ongoing change,” says
museum curator Arin Fay.
Nelson’s queer history is also being captured
in a short documentary, produced by
Touchstones Nelson Museum and Watershed
Productions. Queering the Interior centres on
“the people and moments that defined the
LGBTQ2S+ community in the Kootenays,
while paying tribute to the legacy of activism
that led to a diverse and robust queer population
today,” says director Amy Bohigian.
“Spanning decades, this half-hour documentary
will explore how the discrimination and
demands of one generation were transformed
into the rights and responsibilities of those
that followed.” This project was funded by the
Government of Canada’s New Horizons for
Seniors Program.
 Showing concurrently with We Love a
Parade, is Montreal-based photographer JJ
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Levine’s exhibition Alone Time/Queer Portraits.
Levine uses portraiture to explore the
relationship between photographer and subject,
and to highlight the fluidity of gender.
“Through these projects, I hope to provoke
thought, white maintaining my commitment
to formal photographic techniques,” Levine
says in their artist statement. “The underlying
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goal of my work is to celebrate the resistance
and resilience in my queer community
through the confrontational gaze of my subjects
and our collective cultural aesthetic.”
For more information about the exhibitions
and additional events and programming,
please visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
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