Discover LGBTQ+ history in BC at Night Shift: Pride

Once upon a not-so-distant time, a party the likes of Night Shift: Pride wasn’t easy to find in British Columbia. So when the Royal BC Museum welcomes the LGBTQI2S communities (and allies!) to Victoria’s newest Pride celebration on July 6, you can bet there will be an archival record of the long road from repression to rainbow flag.

When you need a pause from all the dancing, DJ drops and drag performances, catch your breath at the BC Archives display located near Captain Vancouver’s ship in the Modern History gallery on the third floor.

Learn how government legislation and colonial oppression has historically affected queer, trans and two-spirit communities, and what systems the community used in pre-Internet days to meet and communicate. (Check out the Gay Guide, which debuted in the 1970s as a pioneering “safe space” resource!)

Celebrate the activists, advocates, creatives, individuals and allies who championed the rights of LGBTQI2S, trans and two-spirit communities, and discover archival recordings such as Jack Webster’s interview with a young k.d. lang and a CBC documentary on Vancouver’s Coronation Drag Ball.

It’s going to be an epic party and tickets are going fast. (Good to know: your ticket gets you in to the Maya: The Great Jaguar Rises feature exhibition too!) Get yours online now!